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Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 145, 15 October 1853, Page 4

For every Lead of great cattle given in the above return, —Sixpence. For every head of small cattle given in the above return, —One penny. This payment is to be made for the year ending the 30th September, 1853. On the Ist of November next, Licenses of Buns for seven years will be issued to all the applicants whose names are given in the following Schedule, for which they will pay or cause to be paid to me on that day a Fee of Five Pounds sterling for each License. Maps showing the situations of the runs now to be licensed, together with the several parts of the country still unappropriated, may be seen in my office, or they will be shewn to applicants for runs by the Government Surveyor, Christchurch. The intended Licensees named in the Schedule shall pay or cause to be paid to me on the Ist of November next, in advance for the year commencing on the Ist of October, 1853, and on the first of October in every subsequent year, a Rent-charge according to the following scale : but no license of a run will be issued for less than two thousand, nor for more than twenty-five thousand acres : — £. s. d. For 20,000 acres ... Ist year ... 50 0 Do. do. ... 2nd year ... 15 0 0 Do. do. ... 3rd year ... 30 0 0 Do. do. ...4th year ... 50 0 0 Do. do. ... sth year ... 70 0 0 Do. do. ... 6th year ... 90 0 0 Do. do. ... 7th year ... 100 0 0 A Licensee must place 1000 head (or in proportion to the extent of the run he applies for) of property marked or branded, great or small cattle, upon a run of 20,000 acres within one year after the date of his License ; and in case of failure in doing so, the run will become liable to be made over to any applicant for a run. This extension of the period within which runs must be stocked or forfeited, (and due allowance is now made for the great difficulty and expense of importing or procuring in the. country sufficient numbers of sheep—and this difficulty also renders the plan founded on the principle of "Natural Increase" altogether impracticable,) is that, there may be no reasonable excuse for their not being so. And I shall take care that, from time to time, the runs shall be inspected, with the view of ascertaining whether they are kept sufficiently stocked or not; and if not. the whole, or a certain portion of them, will be assigned to any applicant for a run. But I hope the General Assembly, when it comes to deal with the Crown Lands, especially in this new

country, will consider that, as nothing contvi butes more to the enduring prosperity of a new country than the natural deposit of a considerable part of the capital of the settlers in the judicious improvement of the soil; and as the present inadequate pastoral occupation of so much of it, both within and outside the Canterbury block, has neither a tendency to promote improvement or develop its agricultural capabilities, it may be supposed that the sanctioned unprofitable occupancy by stockowners of such large portions of the waste lands of the Crown was only looked upon as a merely initiatory or experimental step which it was hoped might lead ultimately to permanent agricultural and improved pastoral occupation. Byimproved pasturage, I mean one acre rendered by cultivation capable of carrying more sheep than a number of acres can do in the waste state. To make, as soon as possible, the most of the so much coveted pasture, is the only object of stockowners in general: whilst permanent occupancy, not being even thought of at the end of the period for which the License may be granted, the run reverts in its originally waste state to the Crown. A remedy for tbis evil has, it may be hoped, been found in what has been devised by His Excellency Sir George Grey in his New General Land Regulations. But I would yenture to recommend that the General Assembly should go further, and allow a purchase of any extent of land not less than one thousand acres, under these regulations, with the power of paying for them in seven yearly instalments. Thus a purchaser—be he a Canterbury Colonist, a stoskowner outside the Canterbury Block, or a fresh arrival from England, or elsewhere, —might within seven years become, upon very easy terms, the proprietor of the whole or the greater part of his run.

CIRCULAR. Crown Land Office, ChristcJiurch, September 27th, 1853. AS Commissioner of Crown Lands duly empowered by His Excellency the Governor to administer the same within the Canterbury Province (excepting as yet thoseof the Canterbury Block,) I do hereby authorize the following applicants for sheep and cattle runs to occupy those undermentioned, they considering themselves subject to existing Ordinances and Regulations for the issue of Depasturing Licenses, or to any others which may be hereafter established. And I do hereby require that the first eleven of the applicants whose names are given in the following Schedule, shall deposit with me on or before the Ist of November next, Eeturns according to the following form, of all sheep and cattle which were on their respective runs on the Ist day of this month. CO ra to 1 -~~ 5= C es £ . — I •auiMg . iS d: a o '3 as g •" H S -g £ m •dsaqg « — _ _ : O ° -sassy a . rt a —-—: —- z i | -S9SIOH t pauaojj ,§ q • =i ■ 5 -as si°^ . ■ ■ ■ 1 I.§ - fsli. - ol ri •«§ M s JI l="§s § P m o ri "5 Ph o 2 H On the first November next, the said eleven applicants shall-pay or cause to be paid to me at my office, Christchurch:—

In the mean time, all stockowners and others will te held responsible that all communications (marked on H. M. Service) intended for me as Commissioner, shall be sent either to my office at Christchurch, ov else through the postoffice at Lyttel ton ; and such communications as I have to make to them, whether as circulars like this, or otherwise, will be published in a local newspaper; or if made by letters, they shall be put in the post-office at Lyttelton ; and it will be for those up the country to make arrangements for their being forwarded to them, with as little delay as possible, as they will be held responsible for compliance with any instructions or directions I may thus have to give them. James Campbell, Commissioner of Crown Lands, &c, &c, Canterbury Province,

Schedule of Sheep and Cattle Runs applied for in the Canterbury Province. No Names of applicants. Acreage Situation and Boundaries of Kuns. No Names of applicants. Acreage Situation and Boundaries of Runs. 1 Messrs. Khodes, 75.000 North by the river Opihi, east by the sea, and 3 Major A. Horn-25,000 Between the fork of the rivers Hare and (in 3 runs.) government public and native reserves, south Opihi, to comprise in one block the prescribed by the river Paneora, west by a line parallel brook extent only. to the coast, and at such a distance as shall 6 Major O'Connell 25,000 Between the rivers Hinds and Rangitata, coingive in one block the prescribed quantity mencing at the eastern boundary of the run only. But a strict attention must be paid in assigned to G. G. Russell, to comprise in one marking off the 75,000 acres, to regulations block the prescribed extent only, as to frontages, &c, and no monopoly of 7G. G. Russell - 25,000 Between the rivers Hinds and Rangitata, bounwood or water must on any account be al- ded on the westward by the mountainjrange-i „,._ , lowed. and on the east by Major O'Counell's run, 2 Messrs. Clifford 00,000 Bounded on the north by the river Hurunui, comprise in one block the prescribed extern & Weld, (in 2 east by the sea, westward by the Hurunui and only. nms-) Waikari rivers, on the south by a line drawn 8 Dr. Hodgkinson 25,000 Around Mount Deans and between the bra ' at such a distance from the Hurunui as will ches of the Waipara river,-to 'comprise give in one block the prescribed quantity only, one block the prescribed extent only. provided it does not come south of the gulley, 9 David Innes 25,000 Northward by the river Paneora, eastward, „r being the boundary of the Motunau run. the sea, westward towards the mount. 3 Messrs. Waitt & 00,000 Bounded on the south by the Waipara river, on ranges, and southward a line drawn paie'K Lanne, (m 2 the east by the sea, on the west and north by to the river Paneora, at snch a distance_runs-) lines drawn nearly parallel to the first men- shall give in one block the prescribed ex tioned boundary, and at such a distance as only. T( j tfil will give in one block the prescribed quantity 10 W. H. Harris 25,000 Northward to the river Waihau, east war Am i c-, D °nly- , w * sea, westward towards the Mountain 4 Charles Sidey 20,000 Between the Waikari and Hurunui rivers and and southward by a line drawn paraHe».! the Mountain ranges, to be in a block of Waihau and at such a distance as sluu o ■ 2c.,000 acres only, at the southern cud of the in one block the prescribed extent oihj- J Waitm Plain, including the laud whereon 11 Wm. Lyon, for 30,000 Northward the Manuka Creek to tiu> >■ J his station is now placed, and where he has late Greenwood the homestead, eastward the sea, soi (] j expressed his intention of purchasing 2 80 and westward by lines drawn paraiit i ■ acres of land. t ft men tionecl boundaries, and at. - |