Feb. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 483

VILLAGE OF MANGAMINGI.
Village Sections.

Suburban Sections.

| 25 | 19 3 20 | 39 15 0 | 65 | 7 1 20 | 40 11 3 |
| 38 | 11 1 0 | 56 5 0 | 66 | 11 3 27 | 45 17 0 |
| 39 | 11 1 24 | 57 0 0 | 67 | 12 3 15 | 40 15 8 |
| 41 | 16 0 4 | 56 1 9 | 69 | 21 0 16 | 42 4 0 |

This village is situate on the Rawhitiroa Road, about eleven miles from Eltham Railway-station, this road being the main road connecting Eltham with the country at the head-waters of the Whenuakura and Waitotara Rivers, the road being now made right through, connecting with the Waitotara Valley Road. Dray-road to village; thence a bridle-road. The village sections are all felled and grassed, with the exception of Section 36, which is partly in bush. Of the suburban lands, Section 65 is all felled and grassed; Sections 66 and 67 are partly cleared and grassed; the remaining sections offered for sale are under forest, principally of tawa. The country is partly flat and partly undulating, easy slopes; some of the hillsides are steep, notably on Section 69.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Lands in the Auckland Land District open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

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 described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on and after the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine; and that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the said Act, as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metals, minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said lands shall be leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

THAMES COUNTY, TAIRUA SURVEY DISTRICT.
Undulating to broken land; well watered, and generally of good quality. Situated at Tairua.

COROMANDEL COUNTY, HARATAUNGA SURVEY DISTRICT.
12 | V. | 149 0 0 | 0 4·8 | 1 9 10
Broken land, covered with scrubby forest and tea-tree;

well watered. Situated two miles from Cabbage Bay landing, on the Cabbage Bay-Kennedy Bay Road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Land in Southland for Sale by Public Auction.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the forty-seventh section of “The Reserves, Endowments, and Crown and Native Lands Exchange, Sale, Disposal, and Enabling Act, 1898,” and the one-hundred-and-thirteenth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Thursday, the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, as the time at which the land enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WINTON HUNDRED.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Rural Land in the Nelson 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on and after the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine; and also that the land 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 land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—UNSURVEYED SECOND-CLASS LAND.
Buller County.

One-third flat, remainder steep spurs; all covered with bush, rata, rimu, and birch. Access by sea-beach from Karamea, about eight miles.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.