Aug. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1251

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

GLASGOW, Governor.

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 described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the sixteenth day of October, 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.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

RURAL FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Southland | New River Hundred | 23 | XIX. | 101 2 30 | 1 0 0 | 102 0 0 | 1 0 | 2 11 0 | 0 0·6 | 2 0 10
Level land, bush-clad, moderately dry; timber only fit for firewood; light soil. Distance, about four miles from Waimatuku Railway-station.

Wallace | Longwood .. | 6 | VIII. | 51 0 4 | 1 10 0 | 76 10 9 | 1 6 | 1 18 3 | 1 2·4 | 1 10 7
Level land, poor soil, swampy; timber only fit for firewood. Distance, about half a mile from Wakapatu Railway-station. This section is burdened with valuation for improvements, consisting of fencing, £5.

Southland | Oteramika .. | 88 | I. | 5 0 0 | 2 10 0 | 12 10 0 | 2 6 | 0 6 3 | 2 0 | 0 5 0
Level land, soil poor; timber only fit for firewood. About one mile from Mokotua Railway-station.

RURAL SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Wallace | Waiau .. | 90 | .. | 319 2 8 | 0 10 0 | 160 0 0 | 0 6 | 4 0 0 | 0 4·8 | 3 4 0
" | " .. | 91 | .. | 268 3 22 | 0 10 0 | 134 10 0 | 0 6 | 3 7 3 | 0 4·8 | 2 13 10
Open land, consisting of ridges. Distance, three miles from Waiau River, same distance north of Eastern Bush. These sections are burdened with valuation for improvements—on Section 90, consisting of fencing, ploughing, clearing, surface-sowing, and hut, total £200; on Section 91, fencing, £50.

Wallace | Waiau .. | 98 | .. | 215 2 39 | 0 15 0 | 161 16 3 | 0 9 | 4 1 0 | 0 7·2 | 3 4 9
Open land, consisting of ridges and terraces; poor soil; vegetation, red tussock. Distance from Otautau Railway-station, about eight miles.

Wallace | Wairo .. | 158 | .. | 318 0 25 | 0 10 0 | 159 0 0 | 0 6 | 3 19 6 | 0 4·8 | 3 3 7
Land ridgy, poor soil; partly sown down in English grasses. Distance, about five miles from Nightcaps Railway-station. This section is burdened with valuation for improvements, consisting of house, garden, and outbuildings, £100; fencing and ploughing, £28: total, £128.

Wallace | Lillburn .. | 12 | II. | 473 0 0 | 1 0 4½ | 481 17 4 | 1 0·22 | 12 1 0 | 0 9·78 | 9 12 9
About two-thirds of this section is open land with broken fern ridges, good soil, and well watered; the balance is covered with scrub and birch bush; height above sea-level, from 200ft. to 600ft. Distance from Otautau, about twenty-seven miles.

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Otago Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and 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 one hundred and thirty-sixth section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the tenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and that the said lands may be selected on lease in perpetuity, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892”; and I do hereby declare that the rentals at which the said lands shall be leased shall be those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—WAITAKI COUNTY.—AWAMOKO SURVEY DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

72, 25 | III. | 50 2 11 | 4 0 | 5 1 2
73 | " | 46 0 32 | 5 9 | 6 12 10
75 | " | 46 2 35 | 3 3 | 3 17 0
99 | " | 40 0 0 | 4 0 | 4 0 0
100 | " | 40 0 0 | 2 0 | 2 0 0
101 | " | 50 0 0 | 2 0 | 2 10 0
102 | " | 50 0 0 | 3 3 | 4 1 3

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

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.