Page 3 Advertisements Column 1

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 272, 15 November 1881, Page 3

V jO^3^'S t^J-^ T? SALE OF PASTORAL LEASES OF CROWN LANDS. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. General Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 7th November, 1881. I'IIREE million acres of Crown lands will shortly be open for sale and lease in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand. This country is at present held under lease in large runs until the Ist March, 1883 These runs, after agricultural blocks, township 3 , plantation and other reserves have been taken, will be subdivided into areas of ab ut two or three thousand acres and upwards, according to the nature of the country, and will be offered for lease or for sale on pastoral deferred-payments in terms of" The Land Act, 1877 " ' and "The Land Act Amendment Ac, 1879 " The agricultural blocks will be forthwith surveyed, and will then be offered for selection on immediate and deferred payments. Areas exceeding 5,000 acres, will be let as runs for ten years, from the Ist March, 1883, with preemptive right over 320 acres for homestead. Areas under 5,000 acres will be generally for sale on pastoral deferred payments. In order to gi?e new pastoral lessees tiros