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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3887, 4 January 1884, Page 4

Government Gazette. CROAVN LANDS IN WAITARA BLOCK FOR LEASE. Crown Lands Office, Napier, December 16, 1883. < NOTICE is hereby given that tho Rural ! Lands mentioned in the schedule ! hereunder will be offered for lease by public 1 auction, at the Council Chamber, Napier, : on THURSDAY, tho 17th day of January « next, at the hour of noon. Lithograph Plans of the Block may be obtained and conditions ascertained on application at this office. HORACE BAKER, Commissioner of Crown Lands. ; SCHEDULE. 26,736 Acres of the Waitara Block for : lease for depasturing purposes for a period J of twenty-one years, in terms of "The . Land Act, 1877," and "The Land Act, < 1877 Amendment Acts 1879 and 1882." < P.)HIM SUHVhY LI TRTOT. j Clock Sec Area. Up'et Kenonls ncr .*nnnm Is 7 jr.. 2uil 7 yns. 3d 7 yrs A R. P & s it £*. (i. y- f <!• V 111..3 .. 406 -i 0.. i 2 9.. S 5 6..12 8 3 i„ J7D 0 ■„ 4 16 4..91U H 9 0 < M«U,m, vtl u<l ! Ki: PI IK! T. I 1 .43"' 0 0..3H 1 8..72 3 4 V-8 6 0 ' -. ..3140 't 0..43 1 6.Mi 3 " l-'9 4 8 I , 3..'29 5 0 0..86 8 9..7. 17 6196 3 { WUTikA -l.hVt.V I>l- j V ft 5320 0 0.22 3 10..44 7 B..CGU 6 „ 51..3527 0 0 11 9 2. .2! 18 4 -fi 17 6 : ~ 6 ..5 17 0 0 24 4 9..1S 9 6..72 14 3 Rent to the 31st of August next to be paid in 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 Range; the soil is light; about one-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 the permanent - grades has been formed a distance of twelve miles through the Block, starting _ from the Taupo road about thirty-five miles from Napier. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION. LAND DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND. SALE OF RUAKLTURI BLOCK, WAIROA, NEAR HAWKE'S BAY. 1 Q SECTIONS in the above Block, JLO comprising an area of 24,9G0 acres, will be offered for sale on immediate payments at Napier, on the 17th Janua V, 18S-_. Upset price from 6/- to 15/- per acre. At the same time and place 5 sections in tho same block, comprising an area of 48G5 acres, will be offered 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 Ruakituri Block is situated in tho County of AVairoa, about 12 miles from the Township of Clyde. It extends some 20 miles to the westward from the Gisborne-AVairoa road, and lies between the Ruakituri and Mangaruhe rivers. The 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 flats on the Ruakituri River, is pastoral country. The vegetation consists of fern on the spurs and in the valleys, and of scrub and bush in the 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 the 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 To Tuhi. These lands will take grass by surface-sowing; the average cost for fencing, seed-sowing, &c, is from 20/----to 30/- per aero. Maps may be seen at all the principal Land Offices throughout the Colony. D. A. TOLE, Commissioner Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Auckland, 28th Nov., 18S3. ROADS TO OPEN UP CROAVN LANDS RAKAIATAI BLOCK, MAKATOKU RAILWAY STATION. rpENDERS are invited for Clearing and i. Stumping three miles of road through the Rakaiatai Block in the vicinity of the ( Makotoku Railway Station. Specifications can be seen at the Railway Station, Makatoku, and at the District Survey Office, Napier. Tenders addressed to the undersigned will be received up to NOON of SATURDAY, the 12th of January. Mr. Bargh, Road Surveyor, will be at Makatoku at 11.30 a.m. on MONDAY aud TUESDAY, the 7th and Bth of January, and will take intending contractors over the roads. The contractor will be allowed to remove logs aud timber from the road lines which are included in the contract. There are a number of totara trees on ono of the roads. The roads to bo cleared are level and on none of them would thero be a greater distance than one mile and a half to haul logs to the Makatoku Railway Station. HORACE BAKER, Chief Surveyor. District Survey Office, Napier. January 2, 188-1. NAPIER-WOODVILLE RAILAVAY. FENCING CONTRACTS. Public AVorks Office, Kopua, December 24, ISS3. WRITTEN TKNDEES will be received up to Noon i.f SATURDAY, the 12th of January, 1884, for the erection of Railway Fences between Waipawa and Waipukurau (one contract), and between Kopua and Makatoku (4 contracts). Specifications and conditions of contract may be seen at tho above office. Tenders must bo sealed, addressed to the undersigned, and marked outside, "Tender for Fencing-, Waipawa-Waipukurau,'.' or "Tender for Fencing, Kopua-Makatoku, Contract No. —," as the case may bo. > The lowest or any tender not necossarily accepted. By command. J. T. CARR, Resident Engineer. WELLINGTON-NAPIER RAILAVAY. KOPUARANGA CONTRACT (FORMA- < TION ONLY). LENGTH, ABOUT 8 MILES. ■ i Public AVorks Office, Wellington, December 8, 1883. npENDERS will be received at this office : 1 until NOON on WEDNESDAY, the < 23rd of January, 1884, for the above Contract. They aro to be marked on the outside 1 "Tender for Kopuaranga Contract," and ' addressed to tho Hon. tho Minister for Public A\ r orks. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented at any Telegraph j Office by NOON of the same date, provided that Tenders as above are lodged at any < District or Resident Engineer's Office by . the same hour. Specifications and general conditions may be seen at this office ; at the Publ-'c Works Offices, Auckland, Wanganui, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill, 1 at tho Railway Stations, New Plymouth, ] Napier, and Masterton ; and at the Warden's Office, Grahainstown. The lowest or 1 any tender not necessarily accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, < Engineer in Charge, North Island. Immigration Office, ' Napier, December o, 1883. 1 NOTICE is hereby given that for the 1 convenience of country settlers de- I siring to nominate friends from home, tho 1 Immigration Officer will attend at the Government Buildings on AVednesdays from ( 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. On othor days applica- I tions to nominate must be made at tho depot. 1 T. FOX, '1 Acting Immigration Officer. rpHE best choieo Of Ladies' Boots and X Shoes, (quality guaranteed), is at E. W. FNOWLES*, Boot Warehouse, Hastiiigs-streot.