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distant—nine miles of dray-road and twelve miles of horse-track: The approach is difficult, owing to a deep creek intervening. Pongaroa Township is about seven miles distant by horse-track. The section comprises undulating and hilly land. The soil is clayey, resting on a papa formation. The forest is mixed, comprising rimu, rata, matai, &c., with the usual undergrowth of rangiora, supplejack, &c. The section is watered by a creek. The general quality of the section is fair. The improvements comprise 46 acres grassed (at £2 2s. 6d.) : £97 15s.

Section 24, Block V., Mount Cerberus, is situated in the Pahiatua No. 1 Block, on the Waipatukaka Road. The access is from Makuri, which is about twenty-one miles distant—nine miles of dray-road, nine miles of horse-track, and three miles cleared only. Pongaroa Township is about seven miles distant—two miles dray-road, and the rest horse-track and cleared road. The section comprises undulating and hilly land, with about 8 acres of flat. The soil is clayey, resting on papa formation. The forest is mixed, comprising rimu, tawa, kahikatea, &c., with the usual undergrowth. The section is watered by a creek, and its general quality is fair. The improvements comprise 15 acres grassed (at £2) : 30.

Section 26, Block V., Mount Cerberus, is situated in the Pahiatua No. 1 Block, on the Waipatukaka Road. The access is from Makuri, which is about twenty-one miles distant—nine miles of horse-track, and three miles of cleared road only. Pongaroa Township is about seven miles distant—two miles of dray-road, and the rest horse-track and cleared road. The section comprises undulating and hilly land, with easy slopes, and about 4 acres of flat. The soil is clayey, resting on papa formation. The forest is mixed, comprising rimu, rata, tawa, &c., with the usual undergrowth of rangiora, supplejack, &c. The section is watered by a creek. The improvements comprise 18 acres grassed (at £2), £36 ; and whare, £4 : total, £40.

Section 28, Block V., Mount Cerberus, is situated in the Pahiatua No. 1 Block, on the Waipatukaka Road. The access is from Makuri, which is about twenty-two miles distant—nine miles of horse-track, and four miles of cleared road only. Pongaroa Township is about eight miles distant—two miles of dray-road, and the rest horse-track and cleared road only. The section comprises undulating and hilly land, with easy slopes and a small flat. The soil is clayey, resting on papa formation. The forest is mixed, comprising rimu, rata, matai, kahikatea, &c., with the usual undergrowth of rangiora, supplejack, &c. The section is watered by a creek. The improvements comprise 51 acres grassed (at £2), £102 ; whare, 22 ft. by 12 ft. by 7 ft., £10 : total, £112.

Section 11, Block X., Mount Cerberus, is situated in the Pahiatua No. 2 Block, on the Kaituna Road. The access is from Pongaroa, which is about seven miles distant—five miles of formed dray-road and two miles of horse-track. The section comprises undulating and hilly land. The soil is clayey, of fair quality, resting on papa formation. The forest is mixed, comprising rimu, rata, matai, tawa, &c., with the usual undergrowth of supplejack, lawyer, &c. The section is watered by a permanent stream, and its general quality is fair.

Section 12, Block X., Mount Cerberus, is situated in the Pahiatua No. 2 Block, on the Kaituna Road. The access is from Pongaroa, which is about seven miles distant—five miles of formed dray-road and two miles of horse-track. The section comprises undulating and hilly land. The soil is clayey, of fair quality, resting on papa formation. The forest is mixed, comprising rimu, rata, matai, tawa, &c., with the usual undergrowth of supplejack, lawyer, &c. The section is watered by a permanent stream, and the general quality is fair.

Section 19, Block XI., Makuri, is situated in the Masterton Reform Block, on the North Range Road. The access is from Makuri, which is about nineteen miles distant—ten miles of dray-road and nine miles of horse-track. Pongaroa is about nine miles distant by horse-track. The section comprises hilly and undulating land, with easy spurs. The soil is clayey, of fair quality, resting on sandstone-and-papa formation. The forest is mixed, comprising rimu, rata, hinau, tawa, &c., with the usual undergrowth of rangiora, supplejack, &c. The section is watered by a small creek, and its general quality is fair. The improvements comprise 6 acres felled and burnt and 4 acres grassed (at £2) : value, £8.

Section 20, Block XV., Makuri, is situated in the Masterton Reform Block, at the junction of the Mangatiti and Range Roads. The access is from Makuri, which is about seven miles distant by a dray-road, of which four miles are metalled. The section comprises easy undulating land with flat-top spurs. The soil is clayey, of good quality, resting on papa formation. The forest is mixed, comprising rimu, rata, matai, hinau, &c., with the usual undergrowth of rangiora, kiekie, supplejack, &c. The section is watered by a small creek, and its general quality is good. The improvements comprise 10 acres felled and 5 acres grassed at £2) : value, £10.

Section 24, Block IV., Mount Cerberus, is situated in the Masterton Reform Block, on the North Range Road. The access is from Makuri, which is about nineteen miles distant—ten miles of dray-road, and about nine miles of horse-track. The section comprises sloping land with easy spurs. The soil is clayey, of good quality, resting on sandstone-and-papa formation. The forest is mixed, comprising rimu, rata, hinau, tawa, &c., with the usual undergrowth of mahoe, kotukutuku, supplejack, &c. The section is well watered by creeks, and its general quality is fair.

Section 3, Block IX., Tararua, is situated on the Mangatainoka River Reserve Road and Clark’s Road. The access is from Newman Railway-station, which is about twelve miles distant by a metalled road to within one mile of the section, the latter portion being formed dray-road, and the Mangatainoka River has to be crossed. At Nireaha, about half-way to Newman, there is a post-office, school, &c. The section comprises undulating and hilly land, with about 50 acres of flat. The soil is clayey, resting on papa formation. The forest is mixed, comprising rata, rimu, birch, with the usual undergrowth of rangiora, konini, supplejack, &c. The section is watered by the Mangatainoka River, and its general quality is fair. The improvements comprise 30 acres grassed (at £2) : £60.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs, Otago, for Lease on Application.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 12th January, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application on and after Monday, the 27th February, 1899, at the half-yearly rental stated.

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Maniototo County.—Blackstone Survey District.

A. R. P. s. d. £ s. d.
Run 224L | 325 0 0 | 0 6 | 4 1 3
Broken pastoral land; adjacent to Hills Creek Township, and eighteen miles from Naseby. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £91 14s.

Taieri County.—Strath Taieri Survey District.

3 | XI. | 1,866 1 20 | 0 6 | 23 6 6
This run contains about 200 acres agricultural land, rest pastoral; well watered, but high and cold. Situated about seven miles from Middlemarch. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £804 14s.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waitaki County.—Kurow Survey District.

Run 6 of 23 | 6,182 0 0 | .. | 20 0 0
Very high country, purely pastoral, well watered. Situated about three miles from Kurow. Valuation for improvements, payable with application or immediately the result of the ballot is declared, £760.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Native Land Court Notices.

Native Land Court Agents licensed.

IN THE NATIVE LAND COURT,
NEW ZEALAND.

NOTICE is hereby given that licenses have been issued to the under-mentioned persons authorising them to appear as Agents in the Native Land Court for the year ending the 31st day of December, 1899, subject to the provisions of section 20 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” viz.:

PEPENE EKETONE,
TAMATI TAUTUHI.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of January, 1899.

EDWARD BUCKLE,
Deputy Registrar.