874
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 39

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

The leases will be for a term of thirty years, commencing
from the 1st July, 1895; upset rental per annum as noted
in the Schedule.

Rent is to be paid half-yearly in advance on the 1st Janu-
ary and the 1st July in each year. In the event of the out-
going lessee becoming the highest bidder for the new lease, a
year's rent and a lease-fee of £1 1s. to be paid on the fall of
the hammer. Should any other person become the highest
bidder, the amount of valuation for improvements to be paid
on the fall of the hammer, together with a half-year's rent,
and lease-fee.

There being no improvements effected on Section 1,
Block XI., Section 1, Block XII., and Section 6, Block XV.,
Opaku, the highest bidder will pay a half-year's rent and
lease-fee only.

Valuation for improvements made during the term of new
lease will be paid by incoming tenant up to £2 per acre; but
no valuation will be paid by the Crown or University Coun-
cil in the event of the land not being again leased.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run, Otago, open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 20th May, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small
grazing-run will be open for lease on application, at
the Land Office, Dunedin, on and after Wednesday, the
17th July, 1895, at the rental noted below. If more than
one application be received for the run on the same day,
priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the follow-
ing day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

WAITAKI COUNTY.—KUROW SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Pastoral Country.

Hilly land, of good grazing quality; adjoining Township
of Kurow. Valuation for improvements, payable with
application, or immediately the result of the ballot is
declared, £82 11s. 3d.

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 March, 1896.

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.

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.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

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.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Auction of Pastoral Lease, Southland Land District
(under Part VI. of "The Land Act, 1892").

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 21st May, 1895.

IT is hereby notified that Run No. 515 will be submitted
to public auction at the Land Office, Invercargill, on
Wednesday, the 10th July, 1895, at noon.

Run No. 515, Port William, Stewart Island County.—1,000
acres undulating country, from 10ft. to 1,000ft. above sea-
level, principally covered with bush and scrub; distance
from Half-moon Bay, about eight miles. Term, twenty-
one years from 1st March, 1896. Upset annual rental, £5.

Purchasers must deposit statutory declaration required by
section 62 of "The Land Act, 1892," and pay the first half-
year's rent (together with license-fee, £1 1s.), on the fall of
the hammer.

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 24th September, 1894.

IN pursuance of regulations under "The Civil Service
Reform Act, 1886," notice is hereby given that for the
Senior Examination of January, 1896, the period of literature
will be the first half of the nineteenth century, and the
special books will be Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" and
Milton's "Samson Agonistes."

W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

Native Land Court Notices.

"The Native Land Court Act, 1886," and its Amend-
ments.—Court to determine Applications for Rehearing
adjourned.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sitting of the Court for
the purpose of hearing and determining the applica-
tions for rehearing which was notified to sit at Hastings on
the 28th day of May, 1895, has been adjourned to the 31st
day of May, 1895.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.

Notice of Inquiry under Section 118 of "The Native Land
Court Act, 1894."

WHEREAS Thomas Frederick Evans and James Green,
persons claiming to have purchased from certain of
the Native owners shares or interests in the Pukio No. 2
Block, and to have been prior to the date of the passing
of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894," in negotiation
for the purchase of certain other shares or interests
therein, have notified such claim to the Chief Judge of the
Native Land Court, and to the Commissioner of Crown
Lands for the Wellington District, and have requested that
an inquiry into the circumstances thereof may be held as
provided by section 118 of the said Act: And whereas the
Chief Judge has referred the said claim to a Judge of the
Native Land Court, for inquiry as aforesaid: I hereby give
notice that such inquiry will be held at the Native Land
Court House, Greytown North, on the 18th day of June,
1895, at 10 a.m.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of May, 1895.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.