MEMORANDUM OF GOVERNMENT LAND SALES.

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Land Department,
Dunedin, September, 1876.

SALE OF RUN No. 465.

5,000 ACRES ON THE MATUKITUKI RIVER.

ON WEDNESDAY, 27TH SEPTEMBER, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Lease for Ten Years of Run No. 465, bounded towards the North by Bush and Crown Lands, towards the South by Run No. 458, towards the East by Corner Burn, and towards the West by Bush and Crown Lands, being about 5000 acres (more or less) on the Matukituki River, north-west of Run No. 333, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Survey Office, Queenstown, on Wednesday, the 27th day of September next, at noon, in terms of the “Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872,” at the upset price of £3 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 450 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 10s., will be payable at auction.

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

TUAPEKA AND TABLE HILL DISTRICTS.

SALE AT LAWRENCE ON TUESDAY, 10TH OCTOBER, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given that Sections 46 and 203, Block 2, Tuapeka District, containing 1 acre and 2 acres 3 roods and 32 poles respectively, will be offered for Sale by Public Auction by Mr. R. B. Martin at the Survey Office, Lawrence, on Tuesday, 10th October next, at 2 o’clock p.m., at the upset price of £3 per acre. (No. 1924E.)

Also, at the same time and place, Section 64, Block 4, Table Hill District, containing about 26 acres, at the upset price of 5s. per acre.

Subject to £1 5s. survey fees. (No. 1915E.)

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Land Department,
Dunedin, 5th September, 1876.

WAITAHUNA WEST DISTRICT.

BY LAWRENCE.

TUESDAY, 10TH OCTOBER, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following sections in the above District will be offered for sale by public auction by Mr. R. B. Martin, at the Survey Office, Lawrence, on Tuesday, 10th October, 1876, at 2 o’clock p.m., as land of special value, under clause 85, “Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872,” at the upset price opposite each section:—

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands.
Land Department,
Dunedin, September, 6, 1876.