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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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they are well watered. They are accessible by pack-track
from Wairoa, distant forty-eight miles, and from Mohaka,
about twenty-eight miles.

Runs Nos. 9 and 10 are very much broken, and the land
is of poor quality, carrying fern with bush in gullies; well
watered, and fit for grazing purposes, though the carrying-
capacity of the land is light. The runs are accessible from
Wairoa, distant about twenty-three miles.

Run No. 9 has some land which would carry good grass,
but it exists in patches. Run No. 10 contains about 6,000
acres of pumice land, with clay subsoil, and little or no
vegetation on it.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
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 super-
ficial feet.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Auction Sale of Pastoral Licenses and Lease of Reserve
Westland Land District.

Crown Lands Office,
Hokitika, 10th February, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the licenses of the pastoral
runs and lease of the public reserve set out below will
be offered by public auction at the Land Office, Hokitika,
on Wednesday, the 8th day of April next, at the hour of
2 o'clock in the afternoon, at the prices and for the terms
given, and subject to any rights of renewal or resumption as
may be prescribed by the Land Acts or other constituted
authority, and subject to the necessary declarations being
taken. Maps may be seen at the Land Office, Hokitika,
where other full particulars as to conditions of sale, license,
&c., may be ascertained.

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.

"The Native Land Court Act, 1894."

NOTICE is hereby given that the several matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the
Native Land Court sitting at Shortland, Thames, on the 16th day of April, 1896, or as soon thereafter as the
business of the Court will allow.

[Auckland, 96-25.]

SCHEDULE.
APPLICATIONS FOR PARTITION.

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.

Native Land Court Notices.

Rehearing adjourned from Former Sitting.—Oweta Block.

Native Land Court Office,
Gisborne, 25th March, 1896.

IN the matter of a decision of the Court made the 18th
day of February, 1891, upon the hearing of a claim for
succession to the interest of Hori Karaka in the land known
as Oweta Block, and of an application by Hemi Kara and
others for a rehearing made to this Court within three
months of the said decision.

Whereas upon inquiry in open Court before the Chief
Judge of the said Court, assisted by an Assessor, it was
ordered on the 23rd May, 1892, that a rehearing upon such
claim be had:

Notice is hereby given that a sitting of the Court will be
held at Gisborne, on the 20th day of May, 1896, for the
purpose of rehearing the said claim.

JOHN BROOKING,
Registrar.

[Gisborne 96-11.]

"The Native Land Court Act, 1894."—Sitting of Court
further adjourned.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sitting of the Native
Appellate Court advertised to take place at Danne-
virke on the 4th March, 1896, and adjourned to the 7th and
9th April, 1896, respectively, has been further adjourned to
the 30th April, 1896, at the same place.

H. DUNBAR JOHNSON,
Registrar.

Registrar's Office, Auckland, 28th March, 1896.

JAS. W. BROWNE, Registrar.