LEASE OF CROWN LANDS

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 sevenpence for every head of small cattle, depastured on the Run, will be charged, but the minimum stock on which assessment will be charged shall not be less than 250 sheep.

Lease to commence from the 10th day of April, 1876, and expires on the 9th day of April, 1886, or to determine on twelve months' notice from the Commissioner of Crown Lands to the Lessee to that effect, without liability on the part of Government or Waste Lands Board for compensation for improvement. The right to take a road five chains broad, for stock travelling, is retained by Government. 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 made by Lessee to be paid by the incoming tenant before obtaining possession. A deposit of one-tenth of the purchase-money shall be paid on fall of the hammer, and the balance within a month. The annual assessment will be payable on the first day of October of each year, excepting the first period from the 10th day of April to the 1st day of October, 1876, when the proportion, namely £3 ros., will be payable at auction.

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Land Department,
Dunedin, 16th August, 1876.

NOTICE

A SIGNIFICANT ignorance prevails respecting the purchase of Crown Lands at public sales by auction, attention is drawn to the Act entitled "The Crown Lands Sales Extortion Prevention Act," especially clauses 3 and 8 of said Act, which are as follows:

III. Every person who shall actually receive money or other valuable consideration for abstaining to bid for or compete for the purchase of any Crown Lands which shall have been advertised for sale by public auction, and whether or not the same land shall be put up for sale by public auction shall be deemed to have been guilty of a misdemeanour and shall on conviction thereof be liable to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding two years or fined any sum not exceeding five hundred pounds.

VIII. Any Commissioner of Crown Lands or other person connected with the administration of the Waste Lands of the Colony who shall cause or attempt to cause or knowingly permit any person to apply for the purchase of any portion of the Waste Lands of the Crown such applicant not being a bona fide intending purchaser or who shall knowingly countenance or permit any collusion or arrangement between intending purchasers of land having for its object to preclude or supersede the necessity of bona fide competition at any such auction sale as aforesaid shall on conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds and shall forever thereafter be rendered incapable of holding any office or employment under the Crown.

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Lands Department,
Dunedin, 9th August, 1876.

ABSTRACT from previous Gazette of Impounding Notices
Friday Noon, 1st September.
2 Steers, 1 bullock, and 2 heifers will be sold at Popotunoa Pound...

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,

OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT.

No. 833 WARRANT,
Between Thomas Crossan, plaintiff, and Franz Julius, defendant.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of a writ of a fieri facias, to me directed and delivered, issued out of this honourable Court in this cause, on the seventh day of June last, and in pursuance of "The Execution of Judgments against Real Estate Act, 1867," all the estate and interest of the above-named Franz Julius, the execution debtor, in all that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement one rood (more or less), situate in the private township of Milton, in the Province of Otago, in New Zealand, being section numbered twelve (12), block one (1), on the plan of subdivision of the private township of Milton, deposited by George Elder Brown in the office of the Registrar of Deeds for the Province of Otago, and being part of rural section one hundred and two (102), block twelve (12), Tokomairiro district, commencing at a point on the south-eastern boundary of said rural section three hundred (300) links from the eastern corner thereof, and thence continuing south-westerly, and bounded on the south-east by the main south road one hundred (100) links, on the south-west by section numbered eleven (11) on said plan two hundred and fifty (250) links, on the north-west by other part of said rural section (shown, but not numbered, on said plan) one hundred (100) links, and on the north-east by section numbered thirteen (13) on said plan two hundred and fifty (250) links to the commencing point. The memorial of judgment, No. 2026, of which was registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds in Dunedin, in the Province aforesaid, on the seventh day of June last, has, at the suit of the above-named Thomas Crossan, the execution creditor, been levied upon, and taken in execution, and will be sold by public auction at the Sheriff's Bailiff's Office, Supreme Court House, in Dunedin, on Tuesday, the fourteenth day of November, at twelve o'clock at noon, unless the said execution shall be previously satisfied.

Dated in Dunedin, this 27th day of July, 1876.

I. NEWTON WATT,
Sheriff of Otago.

The estate and interest of the above-named Franz Julius, the execution debtor, intended to be sold, is an estate in fee-simple, subject to a mortgage of two hundred and fifty pounds and sixty-five pounds for interest, repayable by forty-eight monthly instalments of six pounds eleven shillings and threepence each.

JOHN MOUAT,
Of Jetty Street, Dunedin,
The Solicitor for the Execution Creditor.

NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership lately subsisting between us, John Hamilton and Charles Payne Raines, of Invercargill, heretofore carrying on business as grocers and bakers, under the firm of Hamilton and Raines, was on the fifth day of July, 1876, dissolved by mutual consent, and that all debts owing to the said partnership are to be received by the said John Hamilton, who will pay all the debts due by the said late firm.

Dated at Invercargill, this fifth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

Witness to the signature of: JOHN HAMILTON.
John Hamilton
James Harvey,
Solicitor, Invercargill.

Witness to the signature of: CHARLES P. RAINES.
Charles Payne Raines
C. H. Howard,
Clerk to T. M. Macdonald,
Solicitor, Invercargill.