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tion at the Land Office, Invercargill, on Tuesday, the 28th
day of September next, at noon, in terms of "The Otago
Waste Lands Act, 1872," at the upset price, or annual
rental in addition to the assessment payable under the
138th clause of the said act, shall be the purchaser.
Assessment: three shillings and sixpence for every head of
great cattle, or seven pence for every head of small cattle
depastured on the Runs, shall be charged, but the minimum
stock on which assessment will be charged shall not be
less than 3000 sheep on Run 413, and 2,200 sheep on Run
436, respectively.

Leases to commence on the 26th day of July, 1876 and
expire on the 25th day of July 1886, or to determine
on 12 months' notice from the Commissioner of Crown
Lands to the Lessee to that effect, without
liability on the part of the Government or Waste
Lands Board for compensation for improve-
ments. The right to take any 5 chains broad, for stock
travelling, is retained by the Government. No previous
lessee, on purchase of the lease, to be entitled to exercise
a pre-emptive right to purchase land on Run. Improve-
ments enhancing the value of the Run, made by lessee,
to be paid by the incoming tenant, before obtaining pos-
session. A deposit, of one-tenth of the purchase money,
shall be payable on the fall of the hammer, the balance
within a month. The annual assessment will be payable
on the 1st day of October of each year, excepting the
first period from the 26th July to the 1st October, 1876,
when the rent will be payable on the 26th day of July of
that year.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 26th July, 1875.

RUNS Nos. 11 AND 464.

NOTICE is hereby given that the leases, for six years
8 months and 5 days of Run 11, situated in the
Otepopo Survey District, bounded on the north by the
middle branch of the Otepopo River, on the east and
south by south branch of same river, on the west by a
meridional line produced through a point forty chains due
east of Trig L on Mount Fortune, at Run No. 464,
situated in the Otepopo Survey District, bounded on the
north by the north branch of the Otepopo River, on the
east by the purchased land in blocks VIII and IX,
Otepopo District, on the south by the middle branch of
Otepopo River, and on the west by a meridional line pro-
duced through a point forty chains due east of Trig L, on
Mount Fortune, containing respectively 6,000 acres and
4,200 acres, will be offered for sale by public auction, at
the Land Office, Dunedin, on Tuesday, the 28th day of
September next at noon, in terms of "The Otago Waste
Lands Act 1872," at the upset price or rent of one penny
per acre. The bidder of the highest annual rental in
addition to the assessment payable under the 138th clause
of the said Act, shall be the purchaser. Assessment of
three shillings and sixpence for every head of great cattle,
or seven-pence for every head of small cattle, depastured
on the Runs, will be charged, but the minimum stock on
which assessment will be charged, shall not be less than
2,400 sheep on Run 11, and 1,680 sheep on Run 464,
respectively.

Leases to commence on the 1st day of January, 1876
and expire on the 5th day of September, 1882, or to ter-
minate on 12 months' notice from the Commissioner of
Crown Lands to the lessee to that effect, without liability
on the part of the Government or Waste Land Board for
compensation for improvements. No previous lessee on
purchasing the lease to be entitled to exercise a pre-
emptive right to purchase land on Run. Improvements
enhancing the value of the Run, improvements to be
paid by the incoming tenant, before obtaining possession.
A deposit of one tenth of the purchase money, and rent
from 1st January 1876, to 1st October 1876, shall be
payable on fall of the hammer, and the balance of both
within a month.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 26th July, 1875.

NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOR UNSURVEYED
LAND, under "Otago Waste Land Act 1872."—
It is hereby notified to the Applicants whose names ap-
pear in the subjoined Schedule, that they have been de-
clared to be the purchasers of the sections set opposite
their names in the Schedule, and that the purchase money
of these Sections must be paid to the Receiver of Land
Revenue in Invercargill, on or before Wednesday the
11th day of August, 1875, otherwise the applications will
be deemed withdrawn, cancelled and void, and the deposit
made at the time of lodging the application will be for-
feited.

SCHEDULE.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 28th July, 1875.

MEMORANDUM OF GOVERNMENT LAND SALES.

Land Department,
Dunedin, June 1875.

IT is hereby notified, that by virtue of the powers
given in section 51 of the "Otago Waste Land Act
1872,"

Mr. THOMAS GEORGE BETTS

Has this day been appointed by the Waste Land Board
with the approval of His Honor the Superintendent, a
member of the Board of Inquiry for the Queenstown
District.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner of the Waste Land Board.
Waste Land Office,
Dunedin, 21st July, 1875.

NOTICE is hereby given that Mr. HENRY PREVOST
was this day duly authorised by the Board of
Examining Surveyors to practise as a surveyor within
this Province.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chairman of Board of Examiners.
Dunedin, 21st July, 1875.

LAND ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

NOTICE is hereby Given, that the following applica-
tions to occupy land on deferred payments have
been received at this Office:—

BLOCK VII., CROOKSTON DISTRICT.

Section 3.—John Muir, Archibald Farquhar, Samuel
M'Intosh (farmer), Samuel M'Intosh (ploughman), Alex-
ander Williamson, Alexander Black, John Bradshaw,
Robert Heath, Robert Farquhar, David Farquhar, John
Cowen, David M'Kenzie, John Roughan, Alexander
Barron, David M'Culley, Robert Matthews, Adam Swan,
James Mair, Daniel Robertson, Peter Shiels, William
Clack, Thomas Tait, Norman Matheson, Alexander Fin-
lay M'Kenzie, James Whyte, William Logan, Mary
Bromley, Robert M'Lelland, Richard M'Kay, Thomas
Hevett, Archibald Currie, Joseph Turnbull, Donald
Cameron, William James Shanks, Donald M'Duff, John
M'Duff, James Sim, Daniel Heenan, Thomas Sim, Daniel
Ferguson, Christina Ferguson, John Fleming, David
Fleming, Andrew Sim, Henry Anderson, Robert Baxter,
David Hay, William H. Lusk, William D. Milligan,
John Edwards, John Stewart, Edward Kempthorne,
James Fegans, James Kennedy, Thomas Bathgate, John
Gilbert, William M'Robie, Hugh Wilson, James How-
den, John M'Rorie, Charles Bathgate, John Wilson,
James Wilson, William Wilson, James Donald, James
Paton, David Ewart, George Blacklock.

Section 6.—John Muir, Archibald Farquhar, senr.,
ander Youngson, John George, James Smith, senr.,
James Smith, junr., Alexander Williamson, Alexander