Feb. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 351

Pastoral Runs, Otago, for lease by Public Auction.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 13th January, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned pastoral
lands will be submitted to public auction, at the Crown
Lands Office, Dunedin, on Friday, the 28th day of February
next, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

PASTORAL LANDS.

(Under Part VI. of "The Land Act, 1892.")

206R, Class I., Maniototo County: Area, 5,040 acres; term,
fourteen years; upset annual rental, £25. Lying between
the Kyeburn Hundred and the summit of the Kakanui
Range, the south corner of the run adjoining the Palmerston-
Naseby main road, 4 miles distant from Kyeburn Township.
Altitude, 1,900ft. to 5,000ft. Present licensee, George Currie.

260R, Class II., Taieri County: Area, 9,440 acres; term,
seven years; upset annual rental, £100. Situated between
the Lee Hundred and the Deep Stream, about 19 miles
beyond Outram on the old Dunstan main road. Altitude,
1,100ft. to 2,100ft. Present licensee, George Nichol.

Sections 8 and 9, Block II., Beaumont, Sections 1 to 6,
Block VIII., same district, and Sections 74a and 75, Block
III., Tuapeka West, Class II., Tuapeka County: Area,
3,796 acres; term, ten years; upset annual rental, £60.
Situated 5 miles north-west of Lawrence, on the west bank
of the Tuapeka River, and intersected by Bowler's Creek.
Altitude, 400ft. to 1,300ft. Present licensee, John Thompson.

Sections 10, 12, and 13, Block I., Dunback District,
Class II., Waihemo County: Area, 588 acres; term, seven
years; upset annual rental, £30. Situated 7 miles north-
west of Palmerston; accessible from Dunback or Palmerston.
Highest point, 1,211ft. Present licensee, John Sutherland.

Possession will be given on the 1st March, 1897.

Valuations for improvements in respect of the above runs
must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Dunedin,
before the licensee will be let into possession.

Such valuations shall, exclusive of the value of a rabbit-
proof fence, in no case exceed three times the amount of the
average annual rental paid under the expired or expiring
license during the term thereof, and five times such amount
in cases where the annual rental does not exceed £50.

The above runs will be sold generally in accordance with
the provisions of Part VI. of "The Land Act, 1892."

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

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in the Cheviot Estate open for Sale upon Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 20th January, 1896.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of "The Land Act, 1892," and "The Cheviot Estate Disposition Act, 1893," that
the under-mentioned lands will be open for application on
and after Thursday, the 27th February, 1896.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CHEVIOT SURVEY DISTRICT.
GRAZING-FARM OPEN FOR LEASE ON APPLICATION.

First-class Land.

This section comprises open, hilly, flat, low downs, and
undulating land, flat-topped easy spurs, and some rough and
ferry gullies with scrub near the bottom. The sea-faces are
steep and broken. The formation comprises sandstone,
slate, limestone, and clay; the soil is fairly deep, and
generally of good quality. The vegetation consists of
tussock, clover, cocksfoot, and other native and cultivated
grasses. The section is watered by intersecting gullies; its
elevation ranges from sea-level to about 1,100ft., the mean
being 600ft., and it has a generally good aspect. There is a
homestead-site situated on the flat near the mouth of the
River Jed, about four miles by road from the Township of
Mackenzie. The land is well adapted for grazing. The
section is weighted with a sum of £50 1s., being half-value
of fencing on the boundaries adjoining Lots 13, Block VII.,
and 2, Block VIII., Cheviot Survey District, which sum
must be paid on allotment.

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Possession of the section will be given to the successful
applicant on the 1st March, 1896.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE OF GRAZING-FARMS.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years.

2. Every applicant shall make the declaration prescribed,
   and shall, immediately after the application has been ap-
   proved or declared successful at the ballot, deposit a sum
   equal to one half-year's rent of the land applied for. Such
   payment shall be in discharge of the half-year's rent due on
   the 1st day of September or 1st day of March following the
   date of application. He shall also pay the sum of £1 1s. for
   the preparation of the lease and the registration thereof.

3. In case of more than one application being lodged on
   the same day for the same farm, priority of selection shall
   be decided by ballot.

4. No person can lease more than 5,000 acres, or an area
   of leasehold and freehold combined which shall exceed 5,000
   acres.

5. Residence on the farm is compulsory, and shall com-
   mence within one year, unless the lessee obtain the consent
   of the Land Board to reside on other land in his occupation.

6. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one
   year's rental by the end of the first year, to one and a half
   years' rental by the end of the second year, and to two and
   a half years' rental at the end of the sixth year. The im-
   provements which have been already made upon the land
   shall be reckoned as improvements under this clause.

7. The lessee must once a year properly clean, clear from
   weeds, and keep open all creeks, drains, ditches, and water-
   courses which now are or may be upon the land, and the
   Commissioner of Crown Lands shall have the power at any
   time to enter upon and make any drain or road through the
   land that he may deem necessary.

8. The lessee must once a year properly cut and trim all
   live fences now on the land, or which may be planted upon
   the land during the term, and stub all gorse not growing as
   fences, and also stub all broom, sweetbriar, and other
   noxious plants.

9. In the event of the lessee cultivating any of the land
   included in his lease, he must take alternately white and
   root or green crops, or three green crops; and on the removal
   of the third crop the land must be sown with good perma-
   ment cultivated grasses and clovers, and be allowed to remain
   as pasture for at least two years from the harvesting of the
   last crop before being again cropped; and he must not cut
   the cultivated grass for hay or seed the first year of the
   course.

10. In the event of the lessee failing to comply with any
    of the covenants hereinbefore mentioned relating to the
    trimming of live fences and stubbing gorse, broom, and
    sweetbriar, and to the cleaning, clearing from weeds, and
    keeping open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses,
    it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown Lands to
    have such work done, and to recover the cost of the same
    from the lessee.

11. All buildings erected upon the land shall be kept in
    good order and repair.

12. The lessee shall be liable for all rates, taxes, and assess-
    ments during the term.

13. Rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance during
    the term of the lease.

14. The lessee shall have no right to purchase any part of
    the land.

15. The Government reserves a right of ingress and egress
    to the telegraph line which passes through some of the lands
    to be disposed of.

16. A right to search for and take gravel for making or
    maintaining roads from any of the lands disposed of is
    reserved; payment to be made for surface damage only.

17. On the expiration or other determination of the lease
    the former lessee shall not have any right of renewal, but
    shall be entitled to full valuation from the incoming lessee
    for improvements of a substantial character, appropriate to
    the lease, effected on the land.

18. In any case where it is determined that any lands in-
    cluded in any lease shall not again be offered for further
    lease, then the amount of the valuation of the improvements
    as aforesaid shall be paid to the outgoing lessee or occupier,
    less any arrears of money due to the Crown by him in re-
    spect of such lands, and such amount shall be paid out of
    the Cheviot Estate Fund.

19. Such improvements shall mean and include reclama-
    tion from swamps, clearing of bush, gorse, broom, sweetbriar,
    or scrub, fencing, draining, sinking wells or water-tanks, con-
    structing water-races, sheep-dips, making embankments or
    protective works of any kind, and in addition to the foregoing
    the erection of any building requisite or necessary for the
    purpose of working the land as a grazing-farm; and the value
    of all such improvements shall be ascertained one month at
    least before the expiry of the existing lease, in such manner
    as the Minister may direct.

20. If a lease is forfeited for breach of conditions, such
    valuation shall be made on recovering possession of the land.