Feb. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 487

SCHEDULE.
SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Wallace .. | Lillburn .. | 11 | II. | 552 0 20 | 6 8 | 184 0 10 | 0 4 | 4 12 0 | 0 3·2 | 3 13 7
Burdened with valuation for improvements: fencing and surface-sowing, £16 5s.

Wallace .. | Lillburn .. | 2 | VI. | 1,264 1 0 | 8 4 | 526 15 5 | 0 5 | 13 3 5 | 0 4 | 10 10 9
Burdened with £203 6s., valuation for improvements: fencing (400 chains at 6s.), £120; hut, £5; sheep-yards, £5; open drains, £25; ploughing, grassing, and surface-sowing, £48 6s.

Wallace .. | Lillburn .. | 4 | VI. | 1,128 0 0 | 8 4 | 470 0 0 | 0 5 | 11 15 0 | 0 4 | 9 8 0
Burdened with £72 6s., valuation for improvements: fencing (231 chains at 6s.), £69 6s.; sheep-yards, £3.

Wallace .. | Lillburn .. | 4 | VII. | 770 0 31 | 8 4 | 320 18 3 | 0 5 | 8 0 5 | 0 4 | 6 8 4
Burdened with £165, valuation for improvements: fencing (140 chains at 6s.), £42; house, £60; stable and yards, £5; garden, £2; 8 acres in grass, £8; draining and track, £18; English grass, £30.

Wallace .. | Lillburn .. | 5 | IX. | 1,604 0 0 | 12 6 | 1,002 10 0 | 0 7·5 | 25 1 3 | 0 6 | 20 1 0
Burdened with £112, valuation for improvements: fencing (100 chains at 6s.), £30; stable and wool-shed, £45; hut and sheep-yards, £12; grass, £25.

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.

Rural Lands 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 lands enumerated 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 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.
NELSON LAND DISTRICT.
Second-class Land.

Collingw’d | Aorere .. | 59 | IV. | 73 0 0 | 6 0 | 21 18 0 | 0 3·6 | 0 10 11 | 0 2·8 | 0 8 8
About one-third low hills, covered in patches with manuka, fern, and grass; remainder flat-topped terraces, covered with manuka and rushes. Accessible by road from Collingwood, about five miles.

Collingw’d | Aorere .. | 96 | IV. | 11 3 29 | 6 0 | 3 12 0 | 0 3·6 | 0 1 10 | 0 2·8 | 0 1 5
All low hills, covered with manuka scrub. Accessible by road from Collingwood, about six miles.

Collingw’d | Aorere .. | 97 | IV. | 37 1 24 | 6 0 | 11 2 0 | 0 3·6. | 0 5 6 | 0 2·8 | 0 4 5
All low hills; about 5 acres bush, remainder covered with manuka scrub. Accessible by road from Collingwood, about six miles.

Collingw’d | Takaka .. | 13 | VII. | 65 0 8 | 7 0 | 22 15 0 | 0 4·2 | 0 11 4 | 0 3·36 | 0 9 1
Low undulating country; about three-fourths open land, covered with manuka, scrub, and fern; remainder bush. Accessible by road from Takaka, about eleven miles.

Collingw’d | Takaka .. | 13 | XI. | 112 0 0 | 7 0 | 39 4 0 | 0 4·2 | 0 19 7 | 0 3·36 | 0 15 8
One-half rocky and steep, remainder fair limestone country. Accessible by road from Takaka, about eleven miles.

Waimea.. | Wai-iti .. | 28 | XIV. | 35 1 0 | 6 0 | 10 10 0 | 0 3·6 | 0 5 3 | 0 2·8 | 0 4 2
Burnt-bush hills, mostly covered with fern.

Waimea.. | Motueka .. | 5 | II. | 60 1 0 | 6 0 | 18 0 0 | 0 3·6 | 0 9 0 | 0 2·8 | 0 7 2
Rough spurs, covered with scrub, birch, and manuka. Accessible by road from Motueka, about seven miles.

Waimea.. | Motueka .. | 2A | XI. | 29 1 21 | 7 6 | 10 17 6 | 0 4·5 | 0 5 6 | 0 3·6 | 0 4 4
Hilly land, covered with black-birch bush; clay soil. Accessible by road, twenty-eight miles from Nelson or twenty miles from Richmond Railway-station.

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.

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