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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

Land in Cheviot Estate open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 10th May, 1898.

THE under-mentioned section will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at this office on Wednesday, 29th June, 1898.

If more than one application be received on the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m., at this office.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CHEVIOT COUNTY.—CHEVIOT SURVEY DISTRICT.

Surveyed First-class Land.

This section is situated at Gore Bay, Cheviot, between 10 ft. and 500 ft. above sea-level, and comprises about 2 acres of flat land, good soil, 10 acres of hill-face well grassed, 83 acres of hill top and sides carrying tussock and fern, and 60 acres of scrub and waste land. The section includes two bush gullies, the bush consisting principally of ngaio, with a few other varieties of native shrubs, and ferns. There is permanent water on the land.

The improvements consist of six-roomed wooden house, iron roof, brick chimney, plastered walls, with outhouse attached, paddock, and small garden. The buildings are valued at £100. The lessee shall keep the buildings insured in the name of the Queen for the full insurable value thereof, in an office to be approved by the Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotments in Otago open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 13th April, 1898.

THE under-mentioned village-homestead allotments will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at this office on Wednesday, 1st June, 1898.

If more than one application be received for the same section upon the same day, then the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD ALLOTMENTS.

First-class Land.

Good land, all ploughable. Situated about seven miles from Hyde. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £4 5s.

TAIERI COUNTY.

| Strath Taieri | 57 | V. | 18 0 18 | 2 5·88 | 1 2 5 |
| " | 58 | " | 21 1 27 | 1 8·2 | 0 17 9 |
| " | 59 | " | 23 1 35 | 2 1·24 | 1 4 3 |
| " | 62 | " | 21 1 23 | 1 7·2 | 0 16 10 |

Open undulating land, ploughable. Situated on the Middlemarch–Hyde Road, about five miles from the former locality. The Taieri River lies about half a mile distant, and the Otago Central Railway skirts the sections on the west. These sections form part of an Otago High School endowment. Valuations for fencing, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared: Section 57, £6 3s. 6d.; Section 58, £5 18s.; Section 59, £9 4s.; Section 62, £7 13s. 6d.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands in Otago for Lease.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 13th April, 1898.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be opened for application upon lease in perpetuity at this office on Wednesday, the 1st June, 1898, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—COUNTY OF WAITAKI.

First-class Land.

Level and gently sloping agricultural land; good strong soil. Situated two miles and a half from Oamaru Railway-station. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £49 13s. 6d.

TEANERAKI SETTLEMENT.

| Oamaru and Awamoko | 1 | 5 0 0 | 19 2 | 2 8 1 |

First-class agricultural land. Situated one mile and a half from Enfield Railway-station. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £2.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs in Southland for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 4th May, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that leases of the under-mentioned pastoral lands will be submitted to public auction on Thursday, the 23rd day of June, 1898, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

PASTORAL LANDS UNDER PART VI. OF “THE LAND ACT, 1892.”

Run 525, situated in Hokonui Survey District, Southland County: Hilly pastoral country; well watered; vegetation, silver-tussock and native grasses; height above sea-level, from 800 ft. to 2,200 ft. Distance from Benmore Railway-station, six miles.

Run 526, situated in Fiord County, between Big River and Preservation Inlet: High broken country, partly bush; well watered; vegetation, native grasses on hill-tops, lower portion bush; height above sea-level, from 500 ft. to 4,000 ft. Distance from Cromarty, Preservation Inlet, one mile.

Possession will be given on the day of sale.

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

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.