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NOTICE is hereby given that the Government has agreed to cancel the lease over the portion of land included in the Mining Lease, No. 20A, issued in favor of Edward McCaffray, and now held by Robert Boyne, as per following description:

All that parcel of land in the Province of Otago, Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement one (1) acre, three (3) roods, more or less, situated in the Shotover District, being part of Section numbered 1, Block XIX on the map of the said district, bounded towards the north-east by Crown lands, one thousand five hundred and seventy-nine (1579) links; towards the south-west by part of Section numbered 1, one thousand three hundred and twenty (1320) links; towards the west by Crown lands, four hundred (400) links, and the portion of said Mining Lease is now open for occupation by holders of Miners’ Rights, &c.

D. MACKELLAR,
Gold Fields Secretary.

Gold Fields Office,
Dunedin, 11th October, 1876.

NOTICE.

AS 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 any 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.

LAND HELD UNDER DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

LICENSES ANNULLED.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Waste Lands Board has annulled the licenses, and declared unoccupied, Sections 14 and 15, Block V., Sections 21 and 24, Block VIII., Section 27, Block IX., Toetoes District; Section 3, Block I., Waikaka District; Section 50, Block II., Tuapeka West District; Section 15, Block VIII., Crookston District; Section 6, Block II, Slopedown District, the conditions required in terms of Sections 52B and 56B of the “Otago Waste Lands Act, 1872” not being fulfilled, and has ordered that such sections should be again advertised open for application. (See advertisement below.)

DEFERRED PAYMENT SECTIONS.

RE-OPENED FOR APPLICATION ON WEDNESDAY, 18th OCTOBER, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Sections will be open for application on deferred payments on Wednesday, 18th October, 1876. Application must be made by the applicant in person, at any Land Office in the Province, and a deposit of 1s. 6d. per acre paid at the time of making the application, being the first half-year’s occupation fee. The purchase money is payable at the rate of 3s. per acre per annum for ten years.

Plans to be seen, and lithographs obtained, at the Land Office, Dunedin.

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land Department,
Dunedin, 12th September, 1876.

GOVERNMENT TOWNSHIP OF CRAIGLEITH, ADJOINING VAUXHALL, ANDERSON’S BAY.

SALE OF SECTIONS.

ON FRIDAY, 20th OCTOBER, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sections in the Government Township of Craigleith will be offered for sale by public auction by Mr. R. B. Martin, at the Provincial Council Hall, Dunedin, at noon on Friday, the 20th day of October, 1876, at the upset price opposite each section:

A. CHETHAM STRODE,
Deputy-Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land Department,
Dunedin, 19th September, 1876.