Nov. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1949

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 3rd October, 1896.

In pursuance of regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1898, the period of literature will be the period from 1625 to 1688, and the special books will be Macaulay’s Essays on Bacon and Walpole, and Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.

Crown Lands Notices.

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 ... | 3 and 6 | 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 Middlemarch. 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.

Kauri Timber, Auckland, for Sale by Public Auction.

Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 30th October, 1896.

It is hereby notified that the under-mentioned kauri timber will be submitted for sale by public auction, at this office, on Thursday, the 26th November, 1896, at 11 o'clock a.m.:-
498 green kauri-trees, containing 2,394,891ft., approximately, situated on Crown land adjoining Karaka Block, in Block XII., Tutamoe Survey District. Upset price, £1,197 9s.

150 singed, green, and dead kauri-trees, containing 599,593ft., approximately, situated in Blocks XII. and XVI., Tutamoe Survey District. Upset price, £299 16s.

Conditions of Sale.—One-half of the purchase-money to be paid in cash or by marked cheque on the fall of the hammer, the balance within twelve months thereafter. Timber to be removed within three years from date of sale.
GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Auckland for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 10th November, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned lands will be submitted for sale by public auction, at this office, on Friday, the 18th day of December, 1896, at 11 a.m.:-

HOBSON COUNTY, PARISH OF OKAHU.
Sections N.E. 149, S.W. 155, and Section 154: Total area, 123 acres 2 roods; total upset price, £311.
Contains about 500,000ft. kauri timber, which can be easily put into the Mangonui River. About ten miles from Mititai Post-office.

WAIPA COUNTY, PARISH OF MANGAPIKO.
Section 310: 49 acres; total upset price, £49.
(Offered under section 243, subsection (3), “Land Act, 1892.”)

Terms of Sale.—One-fifth of the purchase-money on fall of the hammer, and the balance, with grant-fee, within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the one-fifth paid by way of deposit will be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.
GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run, Auckland, open for Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 10th November, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease on application on and after Wednesday, the 23rd day of December, 1896, at the rental noted. In the event of more than one application being received on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.