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Kumara Times, Issue 1128, 10 May 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, ilnder the “ Homestead system, 0 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 thd selection has been approved by the Board the selector shall commence to reside on his select tion, and shall continue to reside continuously tHereon for five years from the date of stick approval as aforesaid. (3.) Within eighteen months after such approval the selector shall erect on his selection a perma* nent dwelling-house of Wood or other materials, Which shall bo specified in regulations to . bo issued in reference to home-stead system selections (4;) In each year there shall be brought under cultivation onefifteenth of the area of such selection if open land, and one-tweuty-fifth if blish land, so that at the end of the term of five years one-third of the selection of open land, or OnC-fifth if bush land, shall be under cultivation. (5.) Non-petformance of any of the foregoing stipulations shall fen-' der 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 J Provided the selector shall not have forfeited his right thereto in manner aforesaid.’ . Description and Situation of LAnO. Four thousand (4000) acres (more or less), being homestead block numbered one (1) on the map of the Mahisapna and the Kanieri Survey Districts, bounded towards the north-east by sec* tions 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 fhe south-west by the GK track, and towards the north-west by the rCad along the Hokitika river, and section 1152. And in persuance of another resolution of the Land' Board, land is hereby declared open fdr selection under the said provisions on the 19th day of May, 1880. J. GILES. Commissioner Crown Lands. REY 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 wi£h lofty and well-ventilated Bed and Sit* ting Rooms, offers every comfort qud convenience to Boarders and Visitors generally. Commercial gentlemen can be accom* modated with suitable sample and show rooms. The Bar is supplied With the best brands of . WINES, SPIRITS, &c. D . FADV ET, GUNSMITH, Painter, Glazier, Papbrhangbr, SIGN WRITER, ENGRAVER. CARPENTER, And UNDERTAKER. Umbrellas, Lamps, and articles of every description requiring it, Repaired to satisfaction: Dillman’s Town Road, Kumaftk