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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2718, 5 December 1881, Page 1

Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. ALBURY TO FAIRLIE CREEK AND BURKE’S PASS BRANCH RAILS?AY. TIMBER BRIDGES CONTRACT. WRITTEN TE NDERS will be received at this offiee 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. Tele- | graphic 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, flngineer in Charge. Public Works Office, Dunedin, November 21, 1881. Y. WAIMATE PLAINS. B. 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, NGAKRE, HAWERA, AND WAIMATE SURVEY DISTRICTS. Residence not Compulsory. II 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 Hawcra; 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 XIL, 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. Th C; See lions in Block 111., Waimatc, are about two miles inland of the Town of Manaia, about half beu-g open grass lands, the reu ainder light, bush with clearings. The Sections in Block 1.. Hawera, adjoin the railway-lino from New Plymouth to Hawera, and are about two miles from the Norman by 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 tire Colony. C. A. WRAY, Commissioner of Crown Lands. SALE OF PASTORAL LEASES OF CROWN LANDS. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. General Crown Lands Office, Wellington. 7th Nov., 1881. nnHREE MILLION ACRES of Crown i lands will shortly be open f r 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 ottered for leasts or for sale on pastoral deferred-payments in terms of “ The Land Act, 1877,” and “ The Land Act Amendment Act, 1879." '] he 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 tbe Ist March, 1883, with pre-emptive right over 320 acres for homestead. Areas under 5,000 acres will be generally for sale on pastoral deferred payments. In order to give new pastoral lessees time to make arrangements, the| licenses will, in terms of tbe Land Acts, be sold by public’auction, at the Land Office,Dunedin, in the latter end of February, 1882, twelve . months before possesion is to be given. One year's rent will be payable in advance on the license at the time of sale. The pastoral deferred payment sections will be offered for sale by public auction probably in November or December, 1882 ; possession on March 1, 1883, Terms: A deposit of one-thirti'-th of the price of the land on purchase, the balance in halfyearly payments extending over fifteen years'. Residence within twelve months is compulsory, and must continue for five years. Balance of instalments may be paid at end of ten years, in which case Crown grant issues. The country lias been occupied for upwards of twenty years. It is wmll grassed, well watered, sound and healthy. Distance from port by good roads, and railways part of the way, from 30 to 150 miles. Maps and further particulars will be obtainable at the Land Offices of New Zealand early in December next, and at places in the Australian Colonies to be named in future advertisements. Suitable blocks of land will also be surveyed immediately in the Provincial District of Canterbury, for sale on pastoral deferred payment, ancFwill be offered for sale about March, 1882. WM. ROLLESTON, Minister of Lands. riTHIS LAMP is complete in itself, mak X Gas from Benzoline at a farthing pe hour. Perfectly safe, cheap and easily managed. , Especially adapted for villages, carriag drives, &c. Apply to SUN AUTOPNEUMATIC LIGHTING AND HEATING CO., I 115, Southwark street S.E. I Manufacturers of the celebrated “ Sun Machine for lighting mansions, _&c., with|ou the trouble, expens and dirt of coal gas. i References to many of the nobility and 1 gentry