FEB. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 247

Small Grazing-runs open for Lease on Application.

District Lands Office,
Dunedin, 23rd November, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small
grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at
the District Lands Office, on and after the 13th February,
1895, at the half-yearly rental noted opposite the runs. In
case of more than one application for the runs on the same
day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the
following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
Otago Land District.

| Survey | Sec- | Block. | Area. | Rent per | Half-yearly |
| District. | tion. | | | Acre. | Rent. |

FIRST-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.

Taiari County.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.
Nenthorn.. | 2 | VII. | } 4,519 0 0| 0 7 | 65 18 0
" .. | 3 | VIII. | }

This is good grazing-country; well watered; has frontage
to Taiari River. It contains a good homestead-site, and is
situated between Mount Stoker and Three-o'Clock Creek,
about fourteen miles from Middlemarch. It is accessible by
a well-formed road. Valuation for improvements, payable
with application, or immediately the result of the ballot is
declared, £848. This run was lately surrendered by Donald
McLeod.

Waitaki County.

Run No.
Domett .. | 17A | .. | 3,120 0 0| 0 4½ | 29 5 0

This run is very steep and broken where it faces the
Otekaike and towards the Maruwenua, but there are some
very good slopes near the top of it; soil light; well watered.
Distance from Kyeburn, on west, six miles; from Otekaike,
to north-east, nine miles (both accessible by track); and
from Livingstone, to south-east, seven miles (by road).
Altitude averages 2,500ft. Valuation for improvements, pay-
able with application, or immediately the result of the ballot
is declared, £80.

SECOND-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.

Waitaki County.

| Section. | | |
| Domett .. | 1 | VIII. | }
| " .. | 1 | X. | }
| " .. | 3 | XI. | } 10,977 0 0| 0 2·18 | 50 0 0
| Kyeburn .. | 1 | X. | }
| " .. | 2 | XIII. | }
| Kakanui .. | 2 | I. | }

Subdivisions of parts of Pastoral Runs Nos. 300 and 301.
This is a very compact run, good aspect, and it is well grassed
throughout, silver-tussock on lower slopes and snow-grass on
higher levels. Situated about nine miles from Livingstone,
and about fourteen miles from Tokarahi Railway-station.
Average altitude, about 2,800ft. above the sea-level. Lately
surrendered by Robert Little. Valuation for improvements,
payable with application, or immediately the result of the
ballot is declared, £10.

| Domett .. | 2 | X. | }
| " .. | 2 | XI. | }
| Kakanui .. | 1 | I. | } 13,540 0 0| 0 1·59 | 45 0 0
| " .. | 1 | II. | }
| " .. | 1 | VIII. | }
| Kyeburn .. | 1 | XIII. | }
| " .. | 1 | XIV. | }

Subdivisions of parts of Pastoral Runs Nos. 300 and 301.
The country is of sound grazing quality, containing about
4,000 acres well-grassed land, about 4,000 acres fairly grassed,
and the remainder poorly grassed and broken. It averages
an altitude of 2,800ft., is well watered, and fronts the main
Livingstone-Naseby Road. The run contains a capital
homestead-site, around which lie several hundred acres of
arable land. Livingstone is six miles and Tokarahi Rail-
way-station eleven miles distant. Valuation for house and
fencing, £50, which amount must either be lodged with
application or paid immediately the result of the ballot is
declared. This run was last held by James Chapman.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, with the option
   of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years at a rent
   to be fixed by valuation, and improvements being secured to
   lessee as provided by "The Land Act, 1892," section 182.
   Each lessee is required to make the declaration as per form
   printed below.

2. No person can lease more than one run.

3. Residence on the run is compulsory, and commences
   within three years in bush or swamp land, and within one
   year in open or partly open land, unless the lessee obtain
   the consent of the Land Board to reside on other land in his
   occupation.

4. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one
   year's rental by the end of the first year, two years' rental
   by the end of the second year, and four years' rental at the
   end of the sixth year; and on bush land, in addition thereto,
   improvements must be made to the value of 10s. an acre if
   first-class land, or of 5s. an acre if second-class land.

5. One half-year's rent and £1 1s. for the lease must be
   paid immediately the application is declared successful; the
   rent to be paid half-yearly in advance during the term of
   the lease. The next payment of rent will become due on
   the 1st September, 1895.

6. The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the
   land; but he can select 150 acres around the homestead
   through which no road can be taken or other public privilege
   exercised without compensation.

NOTE.—One-fourth of the rent paid during the first fifteen
years is returned to the local body, to be spent in improving
the access to the land.

DECLARATION.

I, , of* , do solemnly and sincerely declare—

1. That I am of the age of seventeen years and upwards.

2. That I am the person who, subject to the provisions of
   "The Land Act, 1892," am desirous of becoming the pur-
   chaser of a lease of Run No.† .

3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own
   use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use of
   any other person or persons whatever.

4. That I am not already the holder of any such lease in
   any part of the colony, nor have I any interest in any such
   lease.

5. That I am not the holder of any run under Part VI. of
   the aforesaid Act, nor have I any interest in any such run.

6. That I do not own any freehold land or land held by
   lease or license of any kind whatever anywhere in the
   colony, either by myself or jointly with any other person,
   which, exclusive of the land I am now purchasing the lease
   of, will exceed in area 1,000 acres.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously be-
lieving the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices
of the Peace Act, 1882."
(Signature.)

Declared at , this day of , 18 , before
me— , a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony of
New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Lands in Canterbury for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 26th November, 1894.

NOTICE is hereby given, in terms of "The Land Act,
1892," and "The Public Reserves Act, 1881," that the
under-mentioned pastoral licenses will be submitted to
public auction, at the Local Lands and Survey Office,
Timaru, on Wednesday, the 13th February, 1895, at
11 o'clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.
Pastoral Licenses under "The Land Act, 1892,"
Mackenzie County.

| Run | Survey District. | Block. | Area. | Upset |
| No. | | | | Annual |
| | | | | Rental. |
| | | | Acres. | £ s. d. |
| 206 | Strachey .. | II., III., VI., VII. | 2,970 | 74 5 0 |
| 215 | Pukaki West .. | XV. | 266 | 6 13 0 |
| 216 | Pukaki West.. | XV. | 734 | 18 7 0 |
| | Strachey .. | III. | | |
| 217 | Pukaki .. | XIII. | 507½ | 12 13 6 |
| 218 | Pukaki West .. | III., VII. | 271 | 6 15 6 |

Term of License.—Seven years, subject to termination
on twelve months' notice.