Feb. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 291

Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, License-fee, &c., Wellington District.

GLASGOW, Governor.
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by "The Animals Protection Act, 1880," and the Acts amending the same, I, James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, in the name and on behalf of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, and as his duly-appointed Deputy, do hereby notify that cock pheasants, Californian quail, and hares may be taken or killed within the Wellington Acclimatisation District, consisting of the Counties of Hutt, Wairarapa North, Wairarapa South, Pahiatua, Horowhenua, Kiwitea, Oroua, Pohangina, and Manawatu, together with all town districts and boroughs therein, from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, both inclusive (subject nevertheless to the restrictions in the

said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each, and that licenses to sell game and native game shall be issued on payment of the sum of five pounds each; and the Chief Postmaster at Wellington, and the Postmasters at Palmerston North, Feilding, Sandon, Ashurst, Woodville, Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Masterton, Carterton, Greytown, Martinborough, Featherston, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, Foxton, and Otaki are hereby appointed to sign and issue the said licenses.

And I do further declare that native game, excepting tui, huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed within the above-mentioned district from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, both days inclusive.

As witness the hand of Sir James Prendergast, Knight, Chief Justice, as such Deputy as aforesaid, this ninth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Rural Lands in the Otago Land District open for Sale or Selection.

GLASGOW, Governor.
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of "The Land Act, 1892," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any lands containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892."

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waihemo | Dunback | .. | 13 | II. | 56 2 2 | 1 5 0 | 71 5 0 | 1 3 | 1 15 8 | 1 0 | 1 8 6
" | " | .. | 14 | " | 56 0 34| 1 5 0 | 70 0 0 | 1 3 | 1 15 0 | 1 0 | 1 8 0

Level land of fair quality; well watered. About 20 acres of each section is laid down in English grass. Distance from Dunback Railway-station, about four miles by good road. Subject to valuation for improvements as follows: Section 13, £10 9s.; Section 14, £9 19s. 6d., which amounts must either be lodged with the application, or paid immediately the result of the ballot is declared.

W'kouaiti | North Harbour | 23 | XII. | 21 2 32 | 1 5 0 | 27 10 0 | 1 3 | 0 13 9 | 1 0 | 0 11 0
| and Blueskin | | | | | | | | | |

This is a rough, stony section of poor quality; lying on the northern slope of Mount Cargill, about seven miles from Dunedin.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waihemo | Dunback | .. | 11 | II. | 57 0 4 | 0 15 0 | 42 15 0 | 0 9 | 1 1 5 | 0 7:2 | 0 17 1
" | " | .. | 12 | " | 58 3 12| 0 15 0 | 44 5 0 | 0 9 | 1 2 2 | 0 7:2 | 0 17 8

Land of medium quality, partly broken, well watered. Situated about four miles from Dunback Railway-station. Subject to valuation for improvements as follows: Section 11, £2 7s. 6d.; Section 12, £9 10s., which amounts must either be lodged with the application, or paid immediately the result of the ballot is declared.

Clutha .. | Glenomaru | .. | 37 | IV. | 197 0 34 | 0 12 6 | 123 2 6 | 0 7:5 | 3 1 7 | 0 6 | 2 9 3

Undulating bush land of light quality, well watered; the bush consisting chiefly of manuka, kamai, and broadleaf. Situated five miles east of Glenomaru Railway-station, and has frontage to the district road between Wiltshire Bay and Glenomaru.

Clutha .. | Glenomaru | .. | 34 | VI. | 184 3 16 | 0 10 0 | 92 10 0 | 0 6 | 2 6 3 | 0 4:8 | 1 17 0

Bush land of broken nature; soil fair; well watered. Situated about four miles from Hunt's Siding, and has frontage to Cannibal Bay Road, which is cleared but not formed.

Tuapeka | Rankleburn | .. | 1 | VII. | 529 1 1 | 0 10 0 | 264 10 0 | 0 6 | 6 12 3 | 0 4:8 | 5 5 10

Elevated country of undulating nature. Situated twenty miles from Lawrence, twenty-six miles from Clinton, and four miles from Rankleburn Punt. Access by sledge only. About 60 acres of this section is arable, while the remainder is only fit for pastoral purposes.

Clutha .. | Rimu | .. | 6 | XIII. | 228 3 5 | 1 2 6 | 257 12 6 | 1 1:5 | 6 8 10 | 0 10:8 | 5 3 1

Undulating agricultural land; all bush, which consists chiefly of kamai, pine, birch, and ribbonwood; soil fair; watered. Situated about twenty-three miles from Owaka, and about twelve miles from Tautuku Bay.

Clutha .. | Woodland | .. | 1 | XI. | 98 0 0 | 0 17 6 | 85 15 0 | 0 10:5 | 2 2 11 | 0 8:4 | 1 14 4
" | " | .. | 2 | " | 130 1 0 | 0 17 6 | 113 15 0 | 0 10:5 | 2 16 11 | 0 8:4 | 2 5 6
" | " | .. | 5 | " | 224 2 20| 0 11 6 | 129 7 6 | 0 6:9 | 3 4 8 | 0 5:52 | 2 11 9
" | " | .. | 6 | " | 210 0 0 | 0 17 0 | 178 10 0 | 0 10:2 | 4 9 3 | 0 8:16 | 3 11 5
" | " | .. | 7 | " | 263 0 0 | 0 14 6 | 190 13 6 | 0 8:7 | 4 15 4 | 0 6:96 | 3 16 3
" | " | .. | 16| " | 154 0 0 | 0 17 6 | 134 15 0 | 0 10:5 | 3 7 5 | 0 8:4 | 2 13 11
" | " | .. | 17| " | 142 2 0 | 0 14 6 | 103 13 6 | 0 8:7 | 2 11 10 | 0 6:96 | 2 1 6

Partly undulating and partly broken land; all bush, which consists chiefly of kamai, rata, and red-pine; well watered. The soil is of a clayey nature on a sandstone bottom. The nearest part of this block from Ratanui lies three miles and a half distant from that town. Altitude varies from 10ft. to 600ft.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

JOHN MCKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.