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Kumara Times, Issue 1105, 15 April 1880, Page 3

Land district of westland. HOMESTEAD SETTLEMENT. NOTICE is hereby given that the Block of LAND described below has been, by resolution of the Land Board, and with the assent of his Excellency the Governor, SET APART FOR OCCUPATION without payment, under the “ Homestead system,” in accordance with the provisions of Appendix L of “ The Land Act, 1877,” and subject to the following conditions as to cultivation and residence : (!•) (2-) (?') (L) (L) (G.) The area allowed to be selected by each person of the age of eighteen years or upwards shall be fifty acres, and for persons under eighteen years of 'age twenty acres: Provided that the total quantity to be selected by any one family or number of persons occupying the one household shall not exceed two hundred acres of land. Within three months after the selection has been approved by the Board the selector , shall commence to reside on his selection, and shall continue to reside ' continuously thereon for five years from the date of such approval as aforesaid. Within eighteen months after . such approval the selector shall erect, on his selection a permanent dwelling-house of wood or other materials, which shall be specified in regulations to be issued in reference to home-stead system selections In each year there shall be brought under cultivation one*fifteenth of the area of such selecßon if open land, and one-tweuty-fifth if bush land, so that at the end of the term of five years one-third of the selection of open land, or one-fifth if bush land, shall be under cultivation. Non-performance of any of the foregoing stipulations shall render the selection void, and the right of the selector therein and to all improvements thereon shall be forfeited. At the end of the said jieriod of five years, a grant or grants shall issue for the land selected ; Provided the selector shall not have forfeited his right thereto in manner aforesaid. Description and Situation op Land, Four thousand (4000) acres (more oi less), being homestead block numbered one (1) on the map of the Mahiiaapus and the - Kanieri Survey Districts, bounded towards the north-east by sec tions 1737, and 1118, and by the road south side of tin Kokatahi river; towards the south-easi by the Hokitika flat track, towards the south-west by the GK track, and to wards the north-west by the road alonj the Hokitika river, and section 1152. And in persuance of another resolu tion of the Land Board, the said lane is hereby declared open for selectior under the said provisions on the 19tl day of May, 1880. J. GILES. Commissioner Crown Lands. Grey mouth hotel NEARLY AT THE Corner of Seddon and Main Streets KUMARA. MRS RITSON (Widow of the Rite Joseph Ritson) Proprietress. The above Hotel, being fitted wit! lofty and well-ventilated Bed and Sit ting Rooms, offers every comfort am convenience to Boarders and Visitor generally. Commercial gentlemen can be accom modated with suitable sample aud shot The Bar is supplied with the best brands of WINES, SPIRITS, &c. p O ST-OFFICE STORE, JAMES DRUMMOND, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Or R O o E IR,. A CONSTANT SUPPLY - OF Fresh Butter and.Eggi From Local Dairies. STATIONERY AND CROCKER WARE, ON SALE at lowest hates. Orders punctually attended to, and delivered in any part of the district free.