1976
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 91

10. A right to search for and take gravel for making or maintaining roads from any of the lands disposed of is reserved; payment to be made for surface-damage only.

11. The Government reserves the right of ingress and egress to the telegraph-line which passes through some of the lands to be disposed of.

12. Lessees shall fence off all trees and plantations, and shall not permit any trespass therein or damage thereto, and shall be held responsible for their safe custody.

13. In the event of the lessee failing to comply with any of the covenants hereinbefore mentioned relating to the stubbing gorse, broom, and sweetbriar, and to the cleaning, clearing from weeds, and keeping open all creeks, drains, ditches, and watercourses, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Crown Lands to have such work done, and to recover the cost of the same from the lessee.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Pastoral Runs, Southland, for Lease by Public Auction.

District of Lands and Survey,
District Office, Invercargill, 24th October, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that the under-mentioned pastoral lands will be submitted, as temporary licenses under section 219 of “The Land Act, 1892,” to public auction, at this office, on Thursday, the 24th day of December, 1896, at 11 a.m.

DESCRIPTION.

Run 517: Soil light, with shingle bottom; good sprinkling of English grasses, the remainder red tussock; well watered; height above sea-level, from 200ft. to 400ft.; distance from Otatau, about thirty miles.

Run 518: Broken pastoral country; well watered; covered with good native grasses; height above sea-level, from 400ft. to 600ft.; distance from Otatau, about thirty-three miles.

Run 519: Broken pastoral country; soil heavy, with clay bottom; well watered, and covered with good native grasses; height above sea-level, from 350ft. to 800ft.; distance from Otatau, about thirty miles.

Possession will be given on the day of sale.

Purchasers must deposit the statutory declaration required by section 195 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the sum of the first half-year’s rent and license-fee on the fall of the hammer.

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in the Town of Cambridge for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 27th October, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned reserves in Cambridge West Town will be submitted at auction, for leasing under “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” for a term of fourteen years, at the Crown Lands Office, Auckland, on Friday, the 18th day of December, 1896, at 11 a.m.

TOWN OF CAMBRIDGE WEST.

Lots 69 and 70: 5 acres 1 rood 27 perches; upset annual rent, 16s. 6d.

Lots 148, 150: 2 acres 1 rood 20 perches; upset annual rent, 9s.

Lot 198: 3 acres; annual rent, 9s.

Lot 570: 8 acres; annual rent, £1 4s.

Lot 569: 17 acres; upset annual rent, £2 11s.

Term of lease, fourteen years, without right of renewal. No compensation will be allowed for improvements during either the currency or at the termination of the lease. Lessees will have the right to remove all fences or buildings erected during tenancy.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs, Canterbury, to be offered for Lease at Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 20th October, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases of the under-mentioned pastoral runs will be offered for sale by public auction at the local Lands and Survey Office, Timaru, on Thursday, 7th January, 1897.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—MACKENZIE COUNTY.—HALDON AND GRAY’S HILLS STATIONS.

First-class Pastoral Country.

Run No. 69, part of Haldon Station, Mackenzie County: About 19,025 acres; term of lease, fourteen years fixed tenure from the 1st March, 1897; upset annual rental, £350 for the first four years, and £400 per annum for the remainder of the term.

Run No. 71, Gray’s Hills Station, Mackenzie County: About 29,862 acres; term of lease, fourteen years fixed tenure from the 1st March, 1897; upset annual rental, £350 for the first four years, and £450 per annum for the remainder of the term.

Possession of these runs will be given to the purchasers of the licenses on the 1st March, 1897.

WAIMATE COUNTY.

Parts of Education Reserve No. 1574, Hakateramea District.

Possession of these blocks will be given on the 1st September, 1897. The term of lease dates from the 1st March, 1898, and shall include in addition thereto the period between the date of possession and the date of lease.

The leases will be sold subject to the general provisions relating to pastoral leases of “The Canterbury Educational Reserves Sale and Leasing Act, 1876,” and “The Land Act, 1892,” and any Acts amending the same. The leases—all costs whereof shall be borne by the purchasers—will be from the Canterbury College. The lease shall be subject to the right of the Canterbury College or the Crown to dispose of the freehold of the whole of the runs or any part thereof by way of sale. Provision is made in the memorandum of lease to meet this contingency. The rent will be payable half-yearly, on the 1st days of March and September in each year, six months’ rent being paid on the fall of the hammer.

Plans and full particulars as to terms of lease may be obtained at the District Lands and Survey Office, Christchurch, or from the Registrar of Canterbury College.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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.