Aug. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1361

Rural Lands in the Taranaki Land District open for Sale or Selection.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of "The Land Act, 1892," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any lands containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892."

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

The block lies to the north-east of the Ross Special Settlement, about 33 miles from Stratford Railway-station, some of the sections fronting the Ohura Road, which is formed through the block for dray-traffic. It is all forest land, well watered. The timber comprises tawa, rimu, rata, tawhero, pukatea, konini, with the usual undergrowth, and also some flowering shrubs. Black-birch is met with on the higher portions of the sections. The formation is papa, the average height of ridges above the valleys being from 500ft. to 650ft. Most of the sections have good homestead-sites on valley land. Sections 1 and 2, Block V., Mahoe, have no natural homestead-sites, they being rough sections lying along the face of a watershed; no portion of them is suitable for the grazing of other stock than sheep, when brought under grass. The Arnold frontage to them is all on an up-grade, to get the road over the ridge. Portions of the valley lands are level, but subject to periodical inundations.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

JOHN McKENZIE,

Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Canterbury Land District open for Sale or Selection.

GLASGOW, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of "The Land Act, 1892," I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the said section is provided, do hereby declare that the rural lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six; and also that the lands mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase or on lease in perpetuity, or, in respect of any land containing or supposed to contain any metal, mineral, or valuable stone, be selected on lease in perpetuity only; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892."