APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

the sections not be bid for at the said auction they will be open for application at the upset rentals and for the terms stated.

TOWN OF OPUNAKE.

SUBURBS OF OPUNAKE.

Block IX., Opunake Survey District.

These sections lie to the east of the Town of Opunake, and adjacent to the Main South Road, which passes through the town. The soil is light, and generally of a stony and sandy character. A narrow swamp, which could easily be drained, runs through Sections 48 and 49.

Terms of Lease.

1. A deposit of a half-year's rent and £1 1s. lease-fee to be made on the fall of the hammer.

2. There are no restrictions or limitations as to the number of sections which one person may lease, and no declaration is required.

3. Possession will be given on the day of sale.

4. The leases shall be for the term of years as specified above, but shall be subject to termination by twelve months' notice in the event of the land being required by the Government.

5. The rent shall be payable half-yearly in advance.

6. Each lessee will be required to clear, within the first year from the date of the lease, all gorse, bramble, broom, sweetbriar, and other noxious weeds now growing on the lands comprised in his lease, and, further, shall use all reasonable means to prevent the spread of such noxious weeds.

7. No compensation shall be claimed by the lessees, nor shall any be allowed by the Government, on account of any improvements effected by the lessees, nor for any other cause.

JOHN STRAUCHON,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Southland open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,

Invercargill, 28th February, 1899.

THE under-mentioned Crown land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at this office on Wednesday, the 26th April, 1899.

SCHEDULE.

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

Merrivale Estate.

Lease in Perpetuity:

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Open, flat, dry, shingly, with patches of good land; no permanent water; twenty-two miles from Otautau; altitude, about 200 ft. There is a valuation of £17 4s. for improvements as follows: Fencing (32 chains at 7s.), £11 4s.; ploughing (30 acres at 4s.), £6.

DAVID BARRON,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Poerua Estate, Westland, for Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,

Hokitika, 11th March, 1899.

THE under-mentioned Crown land will be opened for application upon lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Tuesday, the 16th May, 1899, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The Land for Settlements Act, 1894,” and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—GREY COUNTY.—POERUA ESTATE.

First-class Land.

Section 8 contains 70 acres bad swamp, remainder first-class land; deep soil, covered with ribbonwood, scrub, and fern. One mile from Bell Hill Road, and two miles and a quarter by a road and Crooked River bed from school-site and dairy-factory reserve.

Section 14 contains one-quarter open pakihi, a little wet; remainder scrub and bush land, covered with scrub and scattered trees; large portion affected by Slaty Creek and overflow. About a quarter of a mile from dairy-factory reserve and school-site.

W. G. MURRAY,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Pastoral Runs in the Southland Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, 11th March, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that a lease of the under-mentioned pastoral runs will be submitted to public auction at this office on Thursday, the 11th day of May, 1899, at 11 o'clock a.m.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Pastoral Land under Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”

Possession will be given on the day of sale.

The purchaser must deposit the statutory declaration 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.

Valuation for improvements must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Invercargill.

D. BARRON,

Commissioner of Crown Lands.