WASTE LAND BOARD,

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 244, 3 October 1872, Page 5

WASTE LAND BOARD,

The Waste JJand Board met at noon on the 25th. Present -the Chief Commissioner of Waste Lands, Messrs Allan, Duncan and Hughes.

Messrs Gillies and Street, on behalf of White, Bros., of Wakatip, applied for a lease of 200 of run 324, their improvements being on it. The Board could not recommend the application, as the ground applied for is a village site.

The application to have inserted in a coal lease the name of R. E. Dagg as applicant was declined. Mr Hughes was requested to report on the reply of K. C. Mackay to the letter of Mr Chapman. Mr Murray's assessment of the carrying of run 445, applied for by Mr Sanders, was approved. The run to be advertised under the usual conditions.

Willian Young's request for a lease of 100 acres of the Warepa Bush reserve was declined, as, was also Messrs Williams and Archer's application for a reconsideration of the decision of the Board to reduce the jetty site to 100 feet frontage. A similar request from Plaisted and Co. was granted. The objections to Robert Campbell's application for land, on rjin» 1? >»«d 28, on the ground yf sneir being auriferous, w^.., m ferred to the Oqvernment for consideration. On the application ef Mr .Callender, it was determined to offer two 10 acre allotments for sale by auction at 21s per acre upset price as lond at special value j on block 8, Dunedin and East 1 aieri. The petition that the town of Ophir should be offered for sale, was referred tp the Government, Frederick Horde's opplication for part ,of section 52 block 8, D and E, was deohned,

A correspondent of the Tararkki Herald puts it very plainly whin he aays— " Mr Stafford's majority consists of two broken down inebriates and a iisappointed contractor." \ Cholera is raging in Runa ; eight out of every nine die. Despatcns from Nischni Novgorod state that a greijf conflagration is now raging in that city. Txe fire broke oat in that quarter of the placerhere the annual fair is being held, and nas fready destroyed large quantities of valuablejoods. The foreign mail says t% the Pope has instructed the Catholic Bislps of England and Rome to protest againstthe determination of the British Governnht to prosecute the priests concerned ioGaliy election pro* #«*» " j