WASTE LAND BOARD.

Evening Star, Issue 2800, 7 February 1872, Page 2

WASTE LAND BOARD.

This Day. The W a #te Laud Board met at noon today. Present—The Chief Commissipnej* of Waste Lands, Messrs Bathgate, Hughes, and Reid, John Baker’s application for a lease of the coal mine abandoned by Marie and Lafontaine was declined, a prior application having been received. Messrs Gellibrand and Co. having applied to purchase 2000 acres of unsurveyed laud, at 10s an acre, in the Waikouaiti Hundred, it was resolved that the applicants survey it, Ibid it be then put up to auction—the cost of survey tp b° added to the upset price. In reference to Messrs Smith and Anderson’s lettpr, asking the Board to instruct the Provincial Solicitor to draw up, or peruse and settle on behalf of the Board, a case for appeal from the decision of the Board respecting Mr Clarke’s application, it was re solved— “ That the Prosiacial Solicitor be requested to confer with Messrs Smith and Anderson, with the view of preparing a joint case to be submitted to the Supreme Court.” Messrs Smith and Anderson say they are authorised to state that, without prejudice, Mr Clarke is willing to acquiesce iu the late decison, on the understanding that the 1000 acres taken from the area applied for should be put up to auction within a reasonable time. Mr Lees’s (for Mr C. Moore) application to have the unsold land in blocks 1 and 2 Awamoko put up for sale at 10a an acre was referred to the Government, as wore also Mr John Reid’s and Messrs Connell and Moodie'a applications to purchase land in the same districts and iu tho Kakanai hundreds.