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Payments to be made on the fall of the hammer, and consist, with regard to the said licenses, of six months’ rent, and the said lease, of twelve months’ rent, in advance, and license- and lease-fees of £1 1s.

Run No. 39, 7,000 acres, comprises nearly the whole of Mount Tikinga, on eastern shores of Lake Brunner; cattle-feed country; accessible by Greenstone Road and Bell Hill Road; railway skirts the eastern boundary of the run.

Run No. 46, 5,000 acres, comprising the whole of the Valley of the Turnbull River between the Ino River and the eastern edge of the seaboard flats; bush-feed; access by Turnbull River Road and bed of river.

Run No. 92, 5,000 acres, on Miserable Ridge, an outlying spur from Mount Bowen, between Hokitika and Mikonui Rivers; open mountain slopes, well grassed, facing the sun; average altitude, 3,600ft.; sheep country; access by well-cut bush-track from Whitcombe Road, near Rapid Creek, on south bank of Hokitika River.

Run No. 195, 3,000 acres, comprising the bulk of the upper valley of the Mikonui River; good cattle-feed; a few grassed flats on river; access by Mikonui Road, via Totara Valley, and by open river-bed.

Reserve No. 269, at the mouth of Turnbull River, on south side; fair land, partly cleared; remainder light bush.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Town Lands in Southland for Lease under the Provisions of Section 111, Subsection (2), of “The Land Act, 1892.”

Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill,
8th February, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases for seven years of the under-mentioned town lands will be submitted to public auction, in the District Land Office, Invercargill, on Wednesday, the 25th day of March, 1896, at noon.

SCHEDULE.

WALLACETOWN.

TERMS OF SALE.

One year’s rental (together with lease-fee, £1 1s.) to be paid on the fall of the hammer.

Upset rentals as stated above.

Lithographs may be obtained at the Survey Office, Invercargill.

CONDITIONS OF LEASES.

Cultivation: Land to be kept clear of weeds, and to be left in grass at expiry of lease. No valuation for improvements.

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Auckland open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 8th February, 1896.

THE under-mentioned lands, being portion of Auckland University College endowment, will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity on and after Wednesday, the 25th March, 1896, under and subject to section 121 and Part III. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Open land, broken to undulating; about half a mile from Huntly Railway-station. Section 20 contains some kahikatea swamp. Section 19 subject to £70 for improvements. Section 22 subject to £70, being valuation for improvements effected.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Kauri and Totara Timber in Auckland Land District for Sale by Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 8th February, 1896.

THE under-mentioned clumps of dead timber, situated in the Puhipuhi State Forest, will be offered for sale by public auction at this office, on Tuesday, 7th April, 1896, at 11 o’clock a.m.:

Conditions of Sale.—One-half of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer; the balance to be paid within twelve months. Timber to be removed within three years from date of sale. Plans can be seen and obtained at this office, at the County Office, Whangarei, and Post-offices, Whangarei, Hikurangi, and Kawakawa.

The railway-rate for carriage of kauri timber from Whakapara to Whangarei will be 1s. 3d. per 100 superficial feet.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.