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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

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.

Patent Office Supplement.

A SPECIAL Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette is
now published fortnightly, containing all notices con-
cerning patents and trade-marks required by law to be
gazetted; also, particulars of lapsed applications for patents,
expired letters patent, and other information useful to in-
ventors, manufacturers, and others. The Supplement will
be issued free to subscribers to the Gazette, and to others on
payment of a subscription of ten shillings per annum, pay-
able in advance to the Government Printer.
SAMUEL COSTALL,
Government Printer.

Crown Lands Notices.

Pastoral Lands in Otago Land District for Lease by Public
Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 27th May, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that a yearly license, from the
1st July, 1895, to occupy for pastoral purposes, under
section 116 of “The Land Act, 1892,” Section 10, Block XV.,
Maniototo District, will be offered at auction on the 10th
July, 1895. Area, 419 acres 2 roods 16 perches; upset
annual rental, £31 10s.
The purchaser will be required to deposit the year’s rent
and license-fee (£1 1s.) on fall of hammer.
Possession will be given on day of sale.
J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs, Marlborough, open for Lease on
Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 11th June, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small
grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at
the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on and
after Wednesday, the 31st July, 1895, at the annual 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 following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.

First-class Pastoral Country.

| Run | Section. | Block. | Area. | Rent | Annual |
| No. | | | | per Acre. | Rental. |
|-----|----------|--------|-------|-----------|--------|

ONAMALUTU SURVEY DISTRICT.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.

51 6,13 XI. 232 0 0 0 3 2 18 0
63 { 1 X. 1,017 0 0 0 3 12 14 3
{ 10 XI.
64 { 4 X. 417 0 0 0 3 5 4 3
{ 9 XI.
65 { 2 VII. 540 0 0 0 3 6 15 0
{ 1 IX.
66 3 XI. 500 0 0 0 3 6 5 0
67 4 " 378 0 0 0 3 4 14 6

ORIERI SURVEY DISTRICT.

68 8 II. 721 0 0 0 2·4 7 4 2
70 5 " 330 0 0 0 3 4 2 6
71 6 " 231 0 0 0 2·4 2 6 2
75 7 " 454 0 0 0 3 5 13 6

LINKWATER SURVEY DISTRICT.

72 10 III. 362 0 0 0 2·7 4 8 0

Run No. 51.—30 acres cleared and in grass, remainder
fern, scrub, manuka, and birch; well-watered, very broken,
soil good in gullies; accessible by road, about fourteen miles
from Blenheim. Weighted with £130, value of improve-
ments.
Run No. 63.—Principally fern, scrub, and birch bush;
good soil in gullies; accessible by road, about seventeen
miles from Blenheim.
Run No. 64.—40 acres cleared and in grass, remainder
very broken, with good soil in gullies, fern, scrub, and birch
bush; accessible by road, about seventeen miles from Blen-
heim. Weighted with £300, value of improvements.
Run No. 65.—90 acres cleared and in grass, remainder
very broken, with good soil in gullies, fern, scrub, and birch
bush; accessible by road, about seventeen miles from Blen-
heim. Weighted with £200, value of improvements.
Run No. 66.—10 acres cleared and in grass, remainder
fern, scrub, and birch bush; accessible by road, about seven-
teen miles from Blenheim. Weighted with £200, value of
improvements.
Run No. 67.—42 acres cleared and in grass, remainder
fern, scrub, and birch; well watered; accessible by road,
about fifteen miles from Blenheim. Weighted with £130,
value of improvements.
Run No. 68.—Principally bush, portion scrub and fern;
clay soil, well watered; accessible by formed track from
Matau-a-maua Bay.
Run No. 70.—All bush, very broken on northern slopes,
very good soil in south-western corner.
Run No. 71.—All bush, very broken on northern slopes,
well watered.
Run No. 72.—Nearly all heavy birch bush, steep slopes,
poor soil, portion of good land with mixed bush near
southern end; well watered.
Run No. 75.—All bush; small flat, remainder hilly; well
watered; accessible by formed track.
Runs numbered 68 to 75 are situated from eleven to
thirteen miles from Picton via Torea Neck.

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.
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.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.