Jan. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 135

Pastoral Runs, Southland Land District, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 8th January, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral runs will be submitted to public auction, for lease, at the upset annual rentals and for the terms stated below, on Friday, the 27th February, 1903, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

PASTORAL RUNS UNDER PART VI. OF “THE LAND ACT, 1892.”
Run No. 352A, Southland County (Class I.) : Area, 28,710 acres ; term, fourteen years ; upset annual rental, £150.
Runs Nos. 420A and 6 (grouped), Lake County (Class I.) : Area, 44,640 acres ; term, fourteen years ; upset annual rental, £48.
Run No. 5, Lake County (Class I.) : Area, 15,130 acres ; term, fourteen years ; upset annual rental, £25.
Run No. 415C, Wallace County (Class I.) : Area, 9,800 acres ; term, seven years ; upset annual rental, £2 10s.

Descriptions of Pastoral Runs.

Run No. 352A contains 28,710 acres, situated in Eyre District, Southland County, about one mile from Fairlight Railway-station, or about six miles from Athol Railway-station ; country hilly and broken, ranging in height from 1,100 ft. to 3,500 ft. above sea-level. This run is fairly well grassed in places with white tussock and snow-grass on the lower portion, but the steep faces are becoming yearly more denuded of vegetation, and are one sheet of loose running shingle.

Runs Nos. 420A and 6 (grouped) contain 44,640 acres; situated in Eyre Side, Eyre North, Kingston, and South Wakatipu Districts, Lake County, about one mile up lake from Kingston Railway-station, or about seven miles from Fairlight Railway-station ; very high and broken, containing little summer country, ranging in height from 1,100 ft. to 6,800 ft. above sea-level. The country is now poorly grassed, the lower slopes carrying white tussock and snow-grass, with the higher portions poorly grassed with snow-tussock. All the steep faces are quite denuded of vegetation, and are fast becoming one moving mass of shingle.

Run No. 5, containing 15,130 acres, situated in Eyre North District, Lake County, about four miles from Half-way Bay, or sixteen miles from Kingston Railway-station ; very high country, ranging from 1,300 ft. to 6,000 ft. above sea-level, fairly well grassed with white and snow tussock, but, as in all other cases of high country, the steep faces are denuded of vegetation, and are one mass of loose shingle.

Run No. 415C, containing 9,800 acres, situated in Taki-timo District, Wallace County, about forty-five miles from Otatau Railway-station ; very high and broken country, poorly grassed with principally snow-tussock, but the steep faces are quite denuded of vegetation, and consist mostly of loose shingle. Country ranges from 4,000 ft. to 5,700 ft. above sea-level.

TERMS OF SALE.

Possession of above runs will be given on the 1st March, 1904.
Valuations for improvements must be paid to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Invercargill, before the licensees will be let into possession.
The above runs will be sold generally in accordance with the provisions of Part VI. of “The Land Act, 1892.”
Purchasers must deposit statutory declarations as required by section 62 of “The Land Act, 1892,” and pay the first half-year’s rent, together with the license fee (£1 1s.), on fall of the hammer.

JOHN HAY,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands in Mead Settlement, Canterbury Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 8th December, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Crown lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Wednesday, the 21st January, 1903, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and amendments.
If more than one application be received for the same section on the same day, priority of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—SELWYN AND HALL SURVEY DISTRICTS.—SELWYN COUNTY. MEAD SETTLEMENT.
Ordinary Farms.

SELWYN SURVEY DISTRICT.
Subdivision A.

| 1 | IX. | 482 3 27 | 2 3 | 27 3 3 |
| 2 | " | 404 1 11 | 2 6 | 25 5 5 |
| 3 | " | 327 1 21 | 2 6 | 20 9 3 |

Subdivision B.

| 4 | IX. | 335 1 30 | 2 6 | 40 12 7 |
| 1 | X. | 314 2 22 | | |
|10 | IX. | 332 1 39 | 2 6 | 35 2 10 |
| 3 | X. | 229 3 4 | | |
| 2 | " | 793 3 2 | 2 1½ | 42 3 4 |

HALL SURVEY DISTRICT.
Subdivision C.

| 1 | IX. | 352 1 0 | 4 7 | 42 16 0 |
| 2 | " | 24 0 2 | | |

SELWYN SURVEY DISTRICT.

| 5 | IX. | 464 3 31 | 2 10 | 33 2 7 |
| 6 | " | 286 0 7 | 4 3 | 30 7 10 |
| 8 | " | 388 3 0 | 3 11 | 37 18 1 |

Subdivision D.

| 7 | IX. | 450 3 0 | 3 9 | 42 5 2 |
| | | | | *21 1 2 |

HALL SURVEY DISTRICT.
Subdivision E.

|28942| VII. | 91 3 6 | 3 0 | 6 17 8 |

SELWYN SURVEY DISTRICT.
Subdivision F.

| 9 | IX. | 70 0 0 | 4 3 | 7 8 9 |
|11 | " | 83 0 0 | 5 0 | 10 7 6 |
|12 | " | 96 0 0 | 6 0 | 14 8 0 |
|13 | " | 109 3 18 | 6 9 | 18 10 9 |
|14 | " | 87 0 14 | 5 9 | 12 10 5 |
|15 | " | 68 3 33 | 6 9 | 11 12 9 |
| 1 | XIII.| 53 0 28 | 2 6 | 3 6 6 |
| 2 | " | 47 2 22 | 3 6 | 4 3 4 |

Subdivision G.

|33576 and 33577| XIV. | 11 2 19 | 1 0 | 0 5 10 |

Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £540 repayable in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £21 1s. 2d. Total half-yearly, £63 6s. 4d.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Village Lands, Auckland Land District, for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 8th December, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned village lands will be submitted for sale by public auction at the Foresters’ Hall, Tauranga, on Wednesday, the 25th day of February, 1903, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—VILLAGE OF PAENGAROA.

TERMS OF SALE.

One-fifth cash on fall of the hammer, and the balance, with Crown-grant fee, £1, within thirty days thereafter, otherwise the one-fifth paid by way of deposit will be forfeited, and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.