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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3881, 27 December 1883, Page 4

Government Gazette. <__B^_tg_-__>-CROWN LANDS IN WAITARA BLOCK FOR LEASE. Crown Lands Office, Napier, December 15, 1883. NOTICE is hereby given that the Rural Lands mentioned in the schedule hereunder will be offered for lease by public auction, at tho Council Chamber, Napier, on THURSDAY, the 17th day of January next, at the hour of noon. Lithograph Plans of tho Block may be obtained aud conditions ascertained on application at this office. HORACE BAKER, Commissioner of Crown Lands. SCHEDULE. 26,736 Acres of t_e Waitara Block for lease for depasturing purposes for a period of twenty-one years, in terms of "The Land Act, 1877," and "The Land Act, 1877 Amendment Acts 1879 and 1852." POHUI SURVEY DISTRICT. Block Sec. Area. Up?et Rentals per Annum. Ist 7 yra. 2nd 7 yrs. 3rd 7 yra A. r. v. £ 8. d. £ s. d. - 8, d. VJ11..3 .. 490 2 0.. 4 2 9.. 8 5 6..12 8 3 4 .. 579 0 i>.. 4 16 4.. 9 12 8..14 9 0 MAU_GA.UA.KURU HURVKY DISTKIiJT. 1 1 ..4310 0 0..38 1 8.-72 3 4 108 5 0 „ _ ..3146 0 0..43 1 6..56 3 0.129 4 6 3 ..2915 0 0..36 8 «...72 17 6 109 6 3 WAIT ABA. SUKVBY DISTRICT. V 5 . 5326 0 0 .22 3 10..41 7 8..00 11 G 5K..3527 0 0..11 19 2..21 18 4..35 17 6 ~ 0 ..5_7 0 0..24 -1 9..43 9 6. .72 14 3 Rent to tho 31st of August next to be paid iv advance, and thereafter to be paid half-yearly in advance. Description.—Pohui District. Open fern hills intersected by narrow valleys, soil light, frontage to the Taupo road. Maungaharuru District. Fern hills and spurs on the western slopes of the Maungaharuru Rango ; tho soil is light; about ouc-half of sections 2 and 3 is undulating country covered with natural grasses ; there are a few clumps of bush on section 1. Waitara District: Open fern country, hilly ; a bridle road on tho permanent grades has been formed a distance of twelve miles through tho Block, starting from tho Taupo road about thirty-five miles from Napier. SALE OF THE NAPIER HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT BLOCK, SITUATED IN THE WAIHUA AND TARAM ARAM A SURVEY DISTRICTS, WAIROA COUNTY. Crown Lands Office, Napier, Dec. 17, 1883. NOTICE is hereby given that the Lands referred to iv the Schedule hereunder will bo offered for salo for cash, by public auction, at the Council Chambers, Napier, on THURSDAY, tho 17th day of January next, at tho hour of noon. Lithograph plans are being prepared, and when printed, plans will be forwarded to any person who makes application for them. Terms — Ono - fourth of the purchase money must bo paid at the sale, and the balance within one month thereafter, or the part of the purchase money paid by way of deposit will bo forfeited. Further particulars may be ascertained on application at this office. HORACE BAKER, Commissioner of Crown Lands, SCHEDULE. Waihua Survey District. Block. Section. Area. Upset Price. a. r. p. £ s. d. IV. .. 1 .. 1500 0 0.. 2310 0 0 ~ .. 2.. 353 0 0.. 017 15 0 VII. .. 1 .. 19-13 0 0 .. 2137 G 0 VIII. .. 1 .. 400 0 0 .. 700 0 0 . 2 .. 1000 0 0.. 1100 0 0 3 .. 2327 0 0.. 2008 15 0 „ .. 4 .. 700 0 0 .. 1100 0 0 TaKAMARAMA SURVEY DISTRICT. NIX. .. 1 .. 1002 0 0.. 929 5 0 ~ .. 2 .. GO7 0 0 .. 007 0 0 Note—The roads laid out to give access to the sections in Block VIII. will bo takeu under " Tho Public Works Act." NOTIFICATION RESPECTING NAPIER HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT BLOCK, TO BE SOLD AS ABOVE. riHIE Board of Governors of the Napier X High School will bo willing to lend on mortgage for a term of ten years at six per cent, three-fourths of the purchase money of the above described Blocks. J. D. ORMOND, Chairman Board of Governors, Napier High School. Napier, December 17, 1883. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION. LAND DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND. SALE OF RUAKITURI BLOCK, WAIROA, NEAR HAWKE'S BAY. "I Q SECTIONS in tho abovo Block, XO comprising an area of 2-1,9G0 acres, will bo offered for sale on immediate payments at Napier, on the 17th Januahy, 188-1. Upset prico from 0/- to 15/- per acre. At the same time and place 5 sections in the same block, comprising an area of -180.5 acres, will be oifcred for lease for depasturing purposes for a period of ten years at an upset price per annum of from £7 10/- to £50 a section. Tho Ruakitui'i Block is situated in the County of Wairoa, about 12 miles from the Township of Clyde. It extends some 20 miles to the westward from the Gisborne-Wairoa road, and lies between the Ruakituri and Mangaruho rivers. Tho main road from Wairoa to Gisbore passes close to the eastern side of the block. Thirty-three miles of bridle roads on the permanent grades and seven miles of stock-driving roads, have been opened to these lands. The whole block, with the exception of a few Hats on tho Ruakituri River, is pastoral country. Tho vegetation consists of fern on the spurs and in the valleys, and of scrub and bush in tho steep gullies. The soil varies; in places it is light and mixed with a slight coating of pumice, in other parts where the pumice drift has been washed down tho steep hill sides it is a calcareous clay. The sub-soil is marl; on the higher hills there is an overlap of sandstone and a little limestone near Te Tuhi. These lands will take grass by surface-sowing ; the average cost for fencing, seed-sowing, kc, is from 20/----to 30/- per acre. Maps may be seen at all the principal Land Ofliccs throng-bout tho Colony. D. A. TOLU, Commissioner Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Auckland, 28111 Nov., 1883. WELLINGTON-NAPIER RAILWAY. KOPUARANGA CONTRACT (FORMATION ONLY). LENGTH, ABOUT S MILES. Public Works Office, Wellington, December 8, 18S3. TENDERS will be received at this office until NOON on WEDNESDAY, the 23rd of January, 1881, for the above Contract. They are to be marked on the outside "Tender for Kopuaranga Contract," aud addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented at any Telegraph Office by NOON of the same date, provided that Tenders as above arc lodged at any District or Resident Engineer's Oflice by tho same hour. Specifications and general conditions may be seen at this office ; at the Public Works Offices, Auckland, Wanganui, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invcrcargill, at the Railway Stations, New Plymouth, Napier, and Masterton; and at the AVarden's Office, Crahamstown. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Engineer in Charge, North Island. Immigration Office, Napier, December 5, ISS3. "VTOTICE is hereby given that for tho I_S convenience of country settlers desiring to nominate friends from home, the Immigration Officer will attend at the Government Buildings on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., aud on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. On other days applications to nominate must be made at the depot. T. FOX, Acting Immigration Officer.