APRIL 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 577

Rodney, Waitemata, Eden, Manukau, Coromandel, Thames,
Ohinemuri, Raglan, Waikato, Waipa, Piako, Rotorua, Ka-
whia, and Taupo West; excepting the islands known as the
Little Barrier and the Hen and Chickens, and that portion
of the Lake Road District, County of Waitemata, bounded
on the north by the Wairau Creek from its mouth to the
main road from Devonport to Waiwera, on the west by the
said road to its junction with the Seaview Road, on the south
by that road to the sea, and on the east by the sea to the
point of departure—from the second day of May, one thou-
sand eight hundred and ninety-eight, to the thirty-first day
of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, both
inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the
said Acts mentioned). And I do further notify that licenses
to take or kill such game within the said district shall be
issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each; and

the Chief Postmasters at Auckland and Thames, and the
Postmasters at Cambridge, Dargaville, Mercer, Papakura,
and Pukekohe, are hereby appointed to sign and issue the
said licenses.

And I do further declare that native game, excepting tui,
huia, white heron, and crested grebe, may be taken or killed
within the above-mentioned district, except in the portions
thereof hereinbefore described, from the second day of May,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, to the thirty-
first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
eight, both days inclusive.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this first day of April, one thousand eight hun-
dred and ninety-eight.

W. C. WALKER.

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

RANFURLY, 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, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, 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 twenty-fifth day
of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight; 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 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.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d.
Clifton .. | Mimi .. | 4 | IV. | 115 0 0 | 33 6·19 | 192 14 4 | 1 8·1 | 4 16 5 | 1 4 | 3 17 2
Weighted with £34, valuation for improvements, which must be paid on application. 36½ acres in grass, balance forest
of rata, tawa, rimu, &c.; partly level and partly hilly pastoral land; fair to good soil; accessible by river. Distance from
Urenui, about twenty-five miles, and on route of main road to Mokau.

Clifton .. | Mimi .. | 2 | VIII. | 87 0 0 | 32 8·35 | 142 4 7 | 1 7·6 | 3 11 2 | 1 3·6 | 2 17 0
Thirty acres in grass, balance forest of rimu, rata, matai, &c.; partly level and partly hilly pastoral land; soil fair.
Access by Mokau Road, and distant from Urenui about twenty-three miles.

Clifton .. | Mimi .. | 4 | VIII. | 100 0 0 | 38 3·57 | 191 9 9 | 1 10·9 | 4 15 9 | 1 6·1 | 3 16 8
Thirty-six acres in grass, balance forest of rata, tawa, rimu, &c.; partly level and partly hilly pastoral land; soil fair
to good. Access by Mokau Road, and distant from Urenui about twenty-three miles.

Stratford .. | Ngatimaru | 25 | IX. | 80 0 0 | 27 7·22 | 110 6 6 | 1 4·5 | 2 15 2 | 1 1·2 | 2 4 2
Seventeen acres and three-quarters in grass, balance forest comprising tawa, &c.; undulating land, well watered; soil
good. Access by Douglas Road, and about eighteen miles from Stratford.

Stratford .. | Ngatimaru | 23 | X. | 11 2 0 | 67 8·69 | 38 18 10 | 3 4·5 | 0 19 6 | 2 8·5 | 0 15 7
Weighted with £15, valuation for improvements, which must be paid with application. All in grass; undulating
land, well watered, pastoral. Frontage to Ohura Road, and within a mile of Strathmore Township.

Clifton .. | Mimi .. | 11 | VIII. | 282 0 0 | 20 0 | 282 0 0 | 1 0 | 7 1 0 | 0 9·6 | 5 12 10
Hilly and undulating agricultural forest land; timber comprises rata, tawa, maire, rimu, totara, kahikatea, &c., dense
undergrowth; soil fair to good, well watered. Distant sixteen miles from Mokau by good horse- and dray-road, and
twenty-two miles from Urenui by dray-road.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Clifton .. | Mimi .. | 4 | I. | 105 0 0 | 22 0·16 | 115 11 5 | 1 1·2 | 2 17 10 | 0 10·5 | 2 6 3
Twenty acres in grass, balance forest country comprising rata, tawa, rimu, kahikatea, &c., with thick undergrowth;
some flat land on the streams, fair slopes and broken birch spurs behind, rising to about 600 ft. Distant from Tongapo-
rutu Township about two miles. Access by 5 ft. bridle-road.

Clifton .. | Mimi .. | 6 | IV. | 98 0 0 | 26 0·53 | 127 12 4 | 1 3·6 | 3 3 10 | 1 0·5 | 2 11 1
Twenty-nine acres in grass, balance forest of rimu, rata, tawa, hinau, &c.; hilly and undulating pastoral land; fair
soil, well watered. Access by Tongaporutu River, and distant about twenty-four miles from Urenui by dray-road.

Clifton .. | Mimi .. | 16 | IV. | 93 0 0 | 17 6 | 81 7 6 | 0 10·5 | 2 0 9 | 0 8·4 | 1 12 7
All forest, consisting of rata, rimu, &c., dense undergrowth; a little good land on Mangahutiwai Stream, remainder
being broken spurs covered with black-birch. Access by 5 ft. bridle-road from Tongaporutu Township, about one mile and
a quarter.

Clifton .. | Mimi .. | 10 | VIII. | 245 0 0 | 17 6 | 214 7 6 | 0 10·5 | 5 7 3 | 0 8·4 | 4 5 9
All forest, comprising rata, rimu, tawa, maire, pukatea, &c.; hilly and undulating pastoral land; soil fair to good, well
watered. Distant from Urenui by dray-road twenty-three miles, and by dray- and horse-road from Mokau fifteen miles.

Clifton .. | Waitara .. | 37 | XI. | 98 0 0 | 12 6 | 61 5 0 | 0 7·5 | 1 10 8 | 0 6 | 1 4 6
" .. | " .. | 1 | XII. | 100 0 0 | 12 6 | 62 10 0 | 0 7·5 | 1 11 3 | 0 6 | 1 5 0
" .. | " .. | 5 | " | 100 0 0 | 12 6 | 62 10 0 | 0 7·5 | 1 11 3 | 0 6 | 1 5 0
" .. | " .. | 6 | " | 300 0 0 | 12 6 | 187 10 0 | 0 7·5 | 4 13 9 | 0 6 | 3 15 0
" .. | " .. | 7 | " | 538 0 0 | 12 6 | 336 5 0 | 0 7·5 | 8 8 2 | 0 6 | 6 14 6
" .. | " .. | 9 | " | 474 0 0 | 12 6 | 296 5 0 | 0 7·5 | 7 8 2 | 0 6 | 5 18 6
All forest; rough and undulating country, well watered; timber consists of tawa, rimu, rata, towai, pukatea, &c., with
usual undergrowth. Hills rise from 100 ft. to 500 ft. above the valleys, and to 900 ft. above sea-level. Distance from
Urenui by Kaipikari Road, about four to seven miles; the block can also be approached by Junction and Mataro Roads
from Tarata, distance about nine miles.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-eight.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.