JUNE 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 919

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the month of May, 1894. Altitude above the sea, 140ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means. † Same month previous years.

NOTE.—Light showers during early part of month, wind N.W., and strong on 3rd and 4th; fine during middle of month, light variable winds; strong N.W. wind on 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, and rain; continued showery for remainder of month, and strong S.W. gale from night of 28th to end; 1·60in. rain recorded on 29th, the maximum fall; heavy squalls and rough sea for last three days. Maximum temperature in shade 63°·3, minimum 38°; mean temperature of dew-point, 45°·6; mean degree of moisture, 74. Earthquakes on 21st, at 4·37 a.m., smart, and at 9·43 a.m. double shock and rumble, last shock strong, direction N. to S. Brilliant meteor on 18th, at 2.30 a.m., moving in S. direction.

R. B. GORE, Observer.

Crown Lands Notices.

Reserve at Auckland for Lease by Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 17th April, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease for a term of fourteen years of the plantation reserve, Section 218, Takapuna Parish, containing 5 acres 2 roods 7 perches, will be offered at public auction at this office on Friday, the 22nd day of June proximo, at 11 a.m. Upset annual rent, £1 10s.

Description: Open land on the Birkenhead to Lucas Creek Road, about four miles from the Birkenhead Wharf.

Term of Lease: Fourteen years from the 1st July, 1894, without any right of renewal.

Rent payable half-yearly in advance on the 1st January and 1st July in every year.

No valuation for improvements will be allowed during either the currency or at the termination of the lease, but the lessee will have the right to remove fences and buildings that may be erected by him.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Westland Land District.—Auction Sale of Pastoral Licenses.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 5th June, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the licenses of the pastoral runs set out below will be offered by public auction, at the Land Office, Hokitika, on Tuesday, the 31st day of July next, at the hour of 2 o’clock in the afternoon, at the prices and for the terms given, and subject to any rights of renewal or resumptions as may be prescribed by the Land Acts or other constituted authority, and subject to the necessary declarations being taken. Maps may be seen at the Land Office, Hokitika, where other full particulars as to conditions of sale, and license, &c., may be ascertained.

Payments to be made on the fall of the hammer, and consist, with regard to the said licenses, of six months’ rent in advance and license-fee of £1 1s.

Run No. 26, 7,000 acres, Manakaiau River: Cattle-feed country, principally flat bush lands, with hill-slopes immediately adjoining; commences a mile back from the sea-beach; accessible by the sea-beach and Manakaiau River-bed.

Run No. 77, 10,000 acres; in the Upper Cascade River Valley: Access by Jackson’s River to Cascade Track; bush-feed cattle country, principally on hill-slopes and in river-valley; average altitude, 400ft.

Run No. 104, 5,000 acres, Doughboy Country: Average altitude, 150ft.; accessible by Kokatahi Road and river-beds; cattle-feed country, flat and hillsides; bush-track running through centre of block; bush-feed.

Run No. 105, 5,000 acres, Upper Taipo River: Average altitude, 1,000ft.; accessible by Taipo Track and river-bed; river-flats and mountain-sides; cattle-feed country.

Run No. 106, 2,350 acres, Paringa and Otoka Rivers: Average altitude, 500ft.; accessible by river-bed; grass flats, river-bed, and islands, and hill-slopes adjacent; principally cattle-country; bush-feed.

Run No. 109, 3,500 acres, Upper Base-line, Wataroa Flat: Average altitude, 200ft.; accessible by tracks and river-bed; grass-flats, river-bed, and islands; cattle- and sheep-country.

Run No. 110, 5,000 acres, Upper Wataroa Flat: Average altitude, 200ft.; accessible by road, tracks, and river-bed; open grass-flats, scrub-feed and grass; river-bed, islands, &c., with some flat bush land; cattle- and sheep-country.

Run No. 111, 9,500 acres, Upper Wataroa River and Perth River: Average altitude, 1,800ft.; hillsides and mountain-slopes, with a few flats alongside river; bush cattle-feed; access by river-bed.

Run No. 114, 5,000 acres, Mount Willberg Range: Average altitude, 3,000ft.; open grass sheep-country on top and spurs of range; has good sunny aspect, and grass-lands with little trouble can be worked lower into scrub for good refuge when snows are down; access must be made by track up leading spur from Main South Road.

Run No. 115, 4,000 acres, Lower Waiho River: Average altitude, 300ft.; access by track and river-bed; principally open river-bed, with patches of scrub and some adjoining bush lands; generally good sheep-lands, with cattle-feed adjoining.

Run No. 117, 11,000 acres, Karangarua Range and Cassell’s Flat, Karangarua River: Cattle- and sheep-country; bush-feed and grass in river-flat and on mountain-tops; lowest altitude 400ft., highest 4,500ft.; good wintering country for sheep at Cassell’s Flat.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.