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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2715, 1 December 1881, Page 1

Government Notices. v. =• NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. ALBURY TO FAIRLIB CREEK AND BURKE’S PASS BRANCH RAILWAY. TIMBER BRIDGES CONTRACT. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office until Noon of MONDAY, the sth December, 1881, for the above contract. They are to be marked on the outside, “ Tender for Timber Bridges Contract,” and addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Dunedin. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked will be received if presented at any telegraph office by noon of the same date, provided that written tenders are lodged at any District Resident Engineer’s Office by the same hour. Drawings, specifications and general conditions may be seen at this office and at the Public Works Office at Christchurch, and at the Post Office, Timaru. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command, W. N. BLAIR, Engineer in Charge. Public Works Office, Dunedin, November 21, 1881. V. R. WAIMATE PLAINS. Crown Lands Office, Patea, 16th November, 1881. Further sale of 10,000 acres of RURAL LAND for Cash at public auction, and on Deferred Payments on application. RURAL BUSH LAND IN THE KAUPOKONUI, NGAERE, HAWERA, AND WAIMATE SURVEY DISTRICTS. Residence not Compulsory. 14 Sections (about 2,500 acres) of Land in the above districts will be open for application on DEFERRED PAYMENTS on Monday, 19th December, at Patea and Hawera; and 72 Sections (about 7500 acres) on sale by public auction, for CASH at Hawera, on THURSDAY, the 22nd December, The Sections in Blocks XIV. and XV., Kaupokonui, abut on the continuous reserve between the Manaia and Aurora Roads; in Block XII., Kaupokonui, and Block XII, Ngaere, west of the Waingongoro Stream and Eltham Railway Station, The bush is mainly light timber, soft woods, and a few rata. Land is well watered. The Sections in Block 111,, Waimate, are about two miles inland of the Town of Manaia, about half being open grass^lands, the remainder light bush with clearings. The Sections in Block 1., Hawera, adjoin the railway-line from New Plymouth to Hawera, and are about two miles from the Normanby Station. Land level and partially cleared. Contested applications for any of the Deferred-payment Sections will be decided on the 22nd December at Hawera. Full particulars may be obtained and plans inspected at any Land Office in the Colony, C. A. WRAY, Commissioner of Crown Lands. T. jM&j, >■ SALE OF PASTORAL LEASES OF CROWN LANDS. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. General Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 7th Nov., 1881. Three million acres of crown lands will shortly be open fur 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, townships, plantation and other reserves have been taken, will be sub-divided into areas of about 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 Act, 1879." The agricultural blocks will be forthwith surveyed, and will then be offered for selection on immediate and deferred payents. Areas exceeding 5,000 acres, will be let i runs for ten years, from the Ist March, 188, with pre-emptive right over 320 ;res for homestead. Areas under 5,000 acres will be generally ir sale on pastoral deferred payments. In order to give new pastoral lessees me to make arrangements,’, the) licenses ill, in terms of the Land Acts, be sold by üblic auction, at the Land Office, Dunedin, i the latter end of February, 1882, twelve lonths before possession is to be given, me year’s rent will be payable in advance a the license at the time of sale. The pastoral deferred payment sections ill be offered for sale by public auction robably in November or December, 1882 ; ossession on March 1, 1883. Terms; A eposit of one-thirtieth of the price of the md on purchase, the balance in halfearly payments extending over fifteen ears. Residence within twelve months is empulsory, and must continue for five ears. Balance of instalments may be aid at end of ten years, in which case rown grant issues. The country has been occupied for upwards of twenty years. It is well grassed, mil watered, sound and healthy. Distance from port by good roads, and lilways part of the way, from 30 to 150 dies. Maps and further particulars will be btainable at the Land Offices of New iealand early in December next, and at laces in the Australian Colonies to be amed in future advertisements. Suitable blocks of land will also be urveyed immediately in the Provincial listrict of Canterbury, for sale on pastoral eferred payment, and will be offered for ale about March, 1882. WM. ROLLBSTON, Minister of Lands. Ttttk LAMP is complete in itself, __ mak Gas from Benzoline at a farthing pe hour. Perfectly safe, cheap and easily managed. \ Especially adapted for villages, carriag drives, &c. Apply to SUN AUTOPNEUMATIO LIGHTING AND HEATING CO., 115, Southwark street S.E. Manufacturers of the celebrated “ Sun Machine for lighting mansions, &0., withou the trouble, expens and dirt of coal gas. References to many of the nobility and gentry