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Kumara Times, Issue 1115, 27 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 pay* ment, 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:— (1.) The area allowed to be selected by each person of the age of eighteen years or upwards shall be fifty acres, and for persona 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. (2.) 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. (3.) 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 (4.) In each year there shall be brought under cultivation onefifteenth of the area of such selecrion if open land, and one-twenty-fifth if bush land, so that at the end of the terra of five years one-third of the selection of open land, or one-fifth if bush land, shall be under cultivation. (5.) Non-performance of any of the foregoing stipulations shall reader the selection void, and the right of the selector therein and to all improvements thereon shall be forfeited. (6.) At the end of the said period 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 of Land. Four thousand (4000) acres (more or less), being homestead block numbered one (1) on the map of the Mahmapua and the Kanieri Survey Districts?*, bounded towards the north-east by sections 1737, 1120, and 1118, and by the road along the south side of the Kokatahi river, towards the south east by the Hokitika flat track, towards the south-west by the GK track, and towards the north-west by the road along the Hokitika river, and section 1152. ° And in persuance of another resolution of the Land Board, the said land is hereby declared open for selection under the said provisions on the. 19 th day of May, 1880. J. GILES. Commissioner Crown Lands. KEY MOUTH HOTEL, NEARLY AT THE Corner of Seddon and Main .Streets, KUMARA. MRS RITSON (Widow of the Late Joseph Ritson), Proprietress.

The above Hotel, being fitted -with lofty and well-ventilated Bed and Sitting Rooms, offers every comfort and convenience to Boarders and Visitors generally. • Commercial gentlemen can be accommodated with suitable sample and show rooms. The Bar is supplied with the best brands of WINES, SPIRITS, &c. pOST-O FFICE STORE, JAMES DRUMMOND, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GKO O E A CONSTANT SUPPLY OF Fresh Butter and Eggs, From Local Dairies. STATIONERY AND CROCKERYWARE, ON SALE AT LOWEST RATES. Orders punctually attended to, and delivered in any part of the district free.