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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No, 77

sale, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited, and the contract
for the sale of the land rendered null and void.

For Lease.—Buckley Township.

Conditions of Lease.—The leases to be for a term of years,
commencing from the 1st January, 1897. One year’s rent to
be paid by the successful bidder at the fall of the hammer.
No compensation to be given for any improvements effected
on the land during the term of lease.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs, Otago, open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 29th September, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small
grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at
the Land Office, Dunedin, on and after Wednesday, the 25th
November, 1896, at the half-yearly rental noted below. If
more than one application be received for the run on the
same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on
the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

Small Grazing-runs.

FIRST-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.

Waihemo County.

Highlay .. | 386 | VII. | 2,533 3 24| 0 6 | 31 13 6

Fair ridgy land, partly arable, well watered. Situated
about ten miles from Dunback Railway-station. Valuation
for improvements, payable with application or immediately
the result of the ballot is declared, £1,135 6s.

Clutha County.

Kuriwao { | 22 | IX. | 1,407 3 24| 0 3 | 8 16 0
{ | 5 | X. | | |

High country, rather cold, and well watered. Situated
about twelve miles from Clinton. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result
of the ballot is declared, £161 19s. 3d.

Taieri County.

Nenthorn { | 4 | VI. | 4,784 0 0 | 0 6 | 59 16 0
{ | 3 | VII. | | |
{ | 5 | VIII.| | |

Ridgy country of a dry nature, but well watered by running streams. Situated about twelve miles from Middle-march. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £451 10s.

CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. The term of lease is twenty-one years, with the option
   of renewal for a further period of twenty-one years, at a rent
   to be fixed by valuation, and improvements being secured to
   lessee as provided by “The Land Act, 1892,” section 182.
   Each lessee is required to make the declaration as per form
   printed below.

2. No person can lease more than one run.

3. Residence on the run is compulsory, and commences
   within three years in bush or swamp land, and within one
   year in open or partly open land, unless the lessee obtain
   the consent of the Land Board to reside on other land in his
   occupation.

4. Permanent improvements must be effected equal to one
   year’s rental by the end of the first year, two years’ rental
   by the end of the second year, and four years’ rental at the
   end of the sixth year; and on bush land, in addition thereto,
   improvements must be made to the value of 10s. an acre if
   first-class land, or of 5s. an acre if second-class land.

5. One half-year’s rent and £1 1s. for the lease must be
   paid immediately the application is declared successful; the rent to be paid half-yearly in advance during the term
   of the lease. The next payment of rent will become due on
   the 1st September, 1897.

6. The lessee has no right to purchase any part of the
   land; but he can select 150 acres around the homestead
   through which no road can be taken or other public privilege exercised without compensation.

NOTE.—One-fourth of the rent paid during the first fifteen
years is returned to the local body, to be spent in improving
the access to the land.

DECLARATION.

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 desirous of becoming the purchaser of a lease of Run No.† __.
3. That I am purchasing such lease solely for my own use
   and benefit, and not directly or indirectly for the use of any
   other person or persons whatever.
4. That I am not already the holder of any such lease in
   any part of the colony, nor have I any interest in any such
   lease.
5. That I am not the holder of any run under Part VI. of
   the aforesaid Act, nor have I any interest in any such run.
6. That I do not own any freehold land or land held by
   lease or license of any kind whatever anywhere in the colony,
   either by myself or jointly with any other person, which,
   exclusive of the land I am now purchasing the lease of, will
   exceed in area 1,000 acres.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices
of the Peace Act, 1882.”

Signature.

Declared at __, this __ day of __, 189, before
me—
__, a Justice of the Peace in and for the Colony
of New Zealand.

• Place of abode or occupation. † Here specify.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notices.

Additional Rules and Regulations of the Native Appellate Court.

WHEREAS by “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” it
is enacted that the Chief Judge of the Native Land
Court may from time to time, with the approval of the
Governor in Council, make and prescribe rules of practice
and procedure and forms of proceedings in the various
matters in which jurisdiction is or may be conferred on the
Native Appellate Court constituted by the said Act; and for
regulating the sittings of the said Appellate Court; and for
fixing the fees to be paid under the said Act, and the time
and mode of payment, and for enforcing payment thereof:

And whereas the said Chief Judge, in exercise of the power
and authority aforesaid, with the approval of the Governor
in Council, made and prescribed certain rules and regulations of the said Court, which said rules and regulations,
bearing date the 19th day of December, 1894, are now in
force:

And whereas it is expedient to further exercise the power
and authority aforesaid:

Now, therefore, I, George Boutflower Davy, Chief Judge
of the Native Land Court, do hereby, for the purposes aforesaid, and in exercise of the power and authority in that
behalf vested in me by the said Act, make and prescribe the
additional rules and regulations following:—

21. No appeal shall be notified for hearing until after the
    expiration of two months from the date of the decision appealed from. Rule 2 of the said regulations of the 19th day
    of December, 1894, is hereby revoked.

22. Rule 122 of the rules and regulations of the Native
    Land Court shall apply to and be deemed to be incorporated
    with the rules and regulations of the Appellate Court.

As witness my hand, this 15th day of September, 1896.

G. B. DAVY,
Chief Judge.

Approved in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.