Oct. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1689

Town of Reidston.

Hyde Town.

One-fifth of the purchase-money, together with the value of improvements, must be deposited on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with £1 Crown-grant fee, within thirty days, or the deposit will be forfeited.

Lithographs may be obtained at the Survey Office, Dunedin, and the Courthouses, Arrowtown and Naseby.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village-homestead Allotments, Southland, open for Lease upon Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 27th September, 1898.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at this office on Thursday, the 24th November, 1898.

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

SCHEDULE.

WALLACE COUNTY.—LONGWOOD SURVEY DISTRICT.—VILLAGE-HOMESTEAD ALLOTMENTS, LONGWOOD VILLAGE.

First-class Land.

Situated about a mile and a half from Wakapatu Railway-station; bush land; soil fair. Section 58 is burdened with £8 10s. valuation for improvements, consisting of—hut, £4; clearing, £4 10s. Limit of holding in this village, 100 acres.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run, Wairaki, Southland, open for Lease upon Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 5th September, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease upon application on Thursday, the 3rd November, 1898, at the half-yearly rental stated.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.—WAIRAKI SURVEY DISTRICT.

Small Grazing-run No. 42.—Second-class Land.

Distance from Nightcaps Railway-station, about nine miles. The country is somewhat broken, and mostly covered with fern, the balance being well grassed. The fern country is capable of being improved with surface-sowing. This run is burdened with valuation for half boundary-fencing, £72 6s.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run, Southland, for Lease upon Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 20th September, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-run will be open for lease upon application at this office on Thursday, 24th November, 1898.

If more than one application be received, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WALLACE COUNTY.—WAIAU SURVEY DISTRICT.—SMALL GRAZING-RUN NO. 3.

Second-class Land.

Situated about eighteen miles from Otatau Railway-station. Land hilly and broken; soil poor; clay formation; vegetation, manuka scrub and fern. Height above sea-level, 400 ft. to 600 ft.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Rural Lands in Southland District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, 12th September, 1898.

THE under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for sale or selection, in terms of section 136 of “The Land Act, 1892,” either for cash, for occupation with right of purchase, or for lease in perpetuity, at the option of the selector, on and after Thursday, the 10th day of November, 1898.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Situated about three miles and a half from the Dipton Railway-station. This section is mostly open, broken land, well watered; vegetation, silver-tussock, with fern and tutu; good pastoral land, with small parts ploughable. The section is burdened with £20, being the value of black-pine and kowhai growing upon it; also with £175 8s. 6d. for improvements thereon, consisting of fencing, £129 3s. 6d.; sheep-dip and yards, £36; 15 acres ploughed, £5 5s.; hut, £5.

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Situated about twelve miles from Fortrose, on the Otara-Waikawa Road. Soil fair and well watered; mixed bush of rimu, miro, and kamai. Burdened with valuation of £64 for improvements, consisting of house, £35; garden, £1 10s.; outhouse, £1; fencing, £2 10s.; and 16 acres in grass, £24.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.