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Ships’ goods will be charged according to bill of lading, or by weight or measurement, at the option of the Department; other goods by weight or measurement, as the Department directs.

Fernhill Branch-line.

Coal from or to Fernhill to or from stations beyond Abbotsford will be charged 4½d. per ton in addition to the classified rates and charges from or to Abbotsford.

Goods of Classes A, B, C, D (Branch-lines).

One penny per ton per mile will be charged in addition to the classified rates on goods of Classes A, B, C, D on the Fernhill Branch. Mining machinery and plant is excepted from this regulation.

As witness my hand, this twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 24th September, 1895.

IN pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1897, the period of literature will be the reign of Elizabeth, and the special books will be George Eliot’s “Romola” and Shakespeare’s “Tempest.”

W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

Crown Lands Notices.

Perpetual Lease in Marlborough forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that the interest of Arthur Henry Passau in perpetual leases over Sections 45, 46, and 86, Block V., Linkwater Survey District, was declared forfeited by the Marlborough Land Board on the 4th February, 1896.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Village-homestead Allotments, Wellington, open for Selection upon Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 10th February, 1896.

THE under-mentioned lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the 18th March, 1896.

SCHEDULE.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

This section is weighted with £12 10s. for improvements. It is situated on the main road and railway-line, about a mile and a half south of Levin. The soil is good, on a clay-and-shingle formation, and the land is perfectly level. The timber has been felled at a cost of £12 10s.

PAHIATUA COUNTY.—MANGARAMARAMA VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD SETTLEMENT.

| 83 | 11 2 16 | 4 9·6 | 1 7 10 |
| 84 | 16 3 32 | 4 0 | 1 13 11 |

Section 83 is weighted with £7 14s. for improvements. These sections are situated about two miles distant from Mangatainoka, and comprise rich alluvial land, perfectly level, portions being subject to floods. On Section 83 four acres have been partly grassed, and on Section 84 four acres have been felled only; the remainder of each section being covered with heavy mixed timber.

KIWITEA COUNTY.—KAREWAREWA VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD SETTLEMENT EXTENSION.

| 23A | 100 0 0 | 1 3·6 | 3 5 0 |
| 23B | 100 0 0 | 1 3·6 | 3 5 0 |

These sections are situated in the Marton No. 1 Farm-homestead Settlement Block, distant about four miles from the Township of Rangiwahia, and are approached by a dray-road which is now under construction, and which will shortly be completed. The soil is good, on a papa formation, and covered with mixed bush, consisting chiefly of pines, maire, and hinau, with some totara, and undergrowth of rangiora, kotukatuka, houi, &c. There are about twenty acres flat in each section, the remainder, to back boundary, being sloping ridges with a northern aspect. Both sections are well watered.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and are divided into village-homestead allotments, open for selection on lease in perpetuity, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”).

2. The day on which the lands shall be open for selection shall be Wednesday, the 18th March, 1896.

3. The rental stated above shall be the price at which the land shall be open for selection.

4. Applications for leases shall be made in manner as provided in Part I. of the said Act: and all such applications shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington, and leases will be issued in accordance with the provisions of Part I. as aforesaid.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or single), and will be required to make the declaration hereby prescribed.

6. Each applicant shall pay the first half-year’s rent, together with the lease- and registration-fee, and the valuation for improvements (if any), immediately the application has been approved or declared successful at the ballot.

7. All rents must be paid half-yearly, in advance, on the 1st days of January and July in each year, as provided in section 157 of the said Act; and the first half-year’s rent is payable as before provided. The next payment of rent will become due on the 1st January, 1897.

8. No person shall apply for or hold more than one allotment, and such allotment shall be held for his sole use and benefit, and not for the use or benefit of any other person whomsoever. No married woman shall be eligible as a selector; but this provision shall not apply to any married woman who may become a transferee under a will or by virtue of an intestacy.

9. The lessee must reside on the land leased within one year from the date of lease, and thereafter such residence shall be continuous.

10. Improvements and residence on the land comprised in each lease shall, subject to clause 9, be as provided in Part III. of the said Act. The provisions of section 144, and all other provisions of the said Act with respect to substantial improvements, shall apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations. The provisions of section 141, and all other provisions of the said Act in respect of compulsory residence, shall, subject to clause No. 9, apply accordingly to lessees under these regulations.

Substantial improvements of a permanent character mean and include reclamation from swamps, clearing of bush, gorse, broom, sweetbriar, or scrub, cultivation, planting gardens, fencing, draining, making roads, sinking wells or water-tanks, constructing water-races, sheep-dips, making embankments or protective works of any kind, in any way improving the character or fertility of the soil, or the erection of any non-movable building.

11. No lessee shall subdivide, sublet, or transfer the land held by him under these regulations, except under and subject to the provisions of Part I. of the said Act.

12. All the provisions of the said Act, so far as applicable, shall extend and apply to the lands affected by these regulations, and to the applications and leases to be made and issued thereunder, and generally to the interests created, and the persons whose rights, liabilities, or interests are thereby affected: and the mention of any particular provision of the said Act shall not be deemed to exclude any other provision of the said Act applicable to the particular case.

DECLARATION TO BE MADE BY APPLICANT.

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 applying for the purchase of a lease of Section No. __, __ Village Settlement.

3. That I am acquiring such lease solely for my own use and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever.

4. That I am not the owner, or lessee, or occupier, directly or indirectly, either by myself or jointly with any other person or persons, of any lands anywhere in the colony exceeding in the whole one acre.