Jan. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 15
TERMS OF SALE.
A deposit of one-fifth of the purchase-money shall be paid
on the fall of the hammer, and the balance within thirty
days thereafter, or the deposit will be forfeited and the sale
cancelled. Possession will be given on the 1st May, 1896.
Full particulars may be ascertained and plans obtained at
this office.
J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Lands in Marlborough for Sale and Lease.
District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 2nd December, 1895.
TT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned lands will
be offered for sale by auction, at the Lands and Survey
Office, Blenheim, on Wednesday, the 5th day of February,
1896, at 11 o'clock a.m.
FOR SALE FOR CASH.
Gore Survey District, on the Titirangi Run: Section 3,
Block IX., 203 acres; upset price, £81 4s., weighted with
£10 3s. cost of survey.
Section 1, Block XIII., 1,457 acres ; upset price, £582 16s.,
weighted with £72 17s. cost of survey, and £300 valuation
for improvements.
Linkwater Survey District, on the Hampshire Hills Run :
Section 6, Block V., 996 acres; upset price, £498, weighted
with £66 10s. cost of survey, and £1,000 valuation for im-
provements.
Upcot Survey District, on Langridge Run : Section 1,
Block IX., 223 acres 3 roods ; upset price, £112, weighted
with £25 cost of survey, and £16 valuation for improve-
ments.
One-fifth of the purchase-money must be paid on the fall
of the hammer, and the balance, together with the Crown-
grant fee, within 30 days, or the deposit at auction will be
forfeited.
PASTORAL LICENSE UNDER PART VI., "LAND ACT, 1892."
Onamalutu District, Run No. 101 : 511 acres ; term,
ten years ; upset annual rent, £2 2s. 7d.
One half-year's rent, and £1 ls. (license-fee), must be paid
on the fall of the hammer.
REVERVES FOR LEASING UNDER "THE PUBLIC RESERVES ACT,
1881."
Mount Olympus District, Wairau Valley : Parts Sec-
tions 18 and 20; term, five years; upset annual rent, £15.
Part Section 3, Block I.: term, five years; upset annual
rent, £5.
Linkwater Survey District : Section 55, Block XII.,
40 acres; term, ten years ; upset annual rent, £4. The
present fences not to be disturbed.
One half-year's rent, and £1 ls. (lease-fee), must be paid
on the fall of the hammer.
SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Land in Waimate County open for Selection on Lease in
Perpetuity.
District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 9th December, 1895.
THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for
selection on lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands
and Survey Office, Christchurch, on Wednesday, the 12th
February, 1896.
If more than one application be received for the same sec-
tion on the same day, then the order of selection shall be
decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m., at the
District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch.
SCHEDULE.
PAREORA SETTLEMENT.-PATITI SURVEY DISTRICT.
Section. Block. Area. Lease in Perpetuity:
Rent per Half-yearly
Acre. Rent.
A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.
24 3 19 12 5·4 7 14 10
The Pareora Settlement is situated on the New Zealand
and Australian Land Company's Pareora Estate, to the
south of the Pareora River, and west of the main line of
railway, the nearest station on which is St. Andrew's, dis-
tant about two miles. The block is also connected with
Timaru by the Main South Road, the distance being about
eight miles. The section comprises open, level, agricultural
land of good quality, and is intersected by the Otaio water-
race. Wire and gorse fences surround three sides of the
section, and the fourth is also fenced; the section is weighted
with a sum of £5 4s., being valuation of fencing, which sum
must be paid on allotment, in addition to the usual deposit
and fees.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The lands enumerated above are first-class lands, and
   are open for selection on lease in perpetuity, under the pro-
   visions 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 12th day of February, 1896.
3. The rentals stated above shall be the price at which the
   land shall be open for selection.
4. Every applicant shall make the declaration hereinafter
   prescribed, and shall, immediately on being declared success-
   ful, pay 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 January or July fol-
   lowing. He shall also pay the sum of £1 1s. for the pre-
   paration of the lease and the registration thereof.
5. No person shall be allowed to acquire or to hold more
   than one section, and no person who is the owner or occupier
   of land under the said Act which with the land applied for
   would exceed in area 640 acres shall be capable of applying
   for or holding any section.
6. The lessee must reside on the land leased within one
   year from the date of lease, and thereafter such residence
   shall be continuous.
7. The lessee shall put on the land comprised in his lease
   substantial improvements as under :-
   (a.) Within one year from the date of his lease, to a
   value equal to 2½ per cent. of the price of the
   land;
   (b.) Within two years from the date of his lease, to a
   value equal to another 2½ per cent. of the price of
   the land;
   (c.) And thereafter, but within six years from the date
   of his lease, to a value equal to another 2½ per
   cent. of the price of the land;
   and in addition thereto shall, within six years from the date
   of his lease, put substantial improvements of a permanent
   character to the value of £1 for every acre of land.
   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 erec-
   tion of any non-movable building.
8. The lessee must fence the land leased with a ring-fence
   within the second year of the term; and such fence must
   be sufficient to comply in all respects with "The Fencing
   Act, 1895," or any other law to regulate the fencing of land
   which shall for the time being be in force.
9. 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.
10. The lessee must not take more than three crops, one
    of which must be a root-crop, from the same land in succes-
    sion; and either with or immediately after a third crop of
    any kind the land must be sown down with good permanent
    cultivated grasses and clovers, and be allowed to remain as
    pasture for at least three years from the harvesting of last
    crop before being again cropped.
11. At all times during the lease the land, if the area of
    the whole exceed 10 acres, must be so farmed that not less
    than one-third of the farm be maintained in permanent
    pasture.
12. The lessee must not cut the cultivated grass or clovers
    for hay or seed during the first year from the time of sowing
    as aforesaid.
13. The lessee must not burn any straw grown upon the
    land.
14. 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 or any Crown Lands Ranger
    of the district shall have the power at any time to enter
    upon and make any drain through the land that he may
    deem necessary.