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1879. NEW ZEALAND.

PASTORAL LEASES IN LAND DISTRICT OF CANTERBURY (RETURN OF HOLDERS OF, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED).

Presented to loth Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

SUMMARY of the LARGER HOLDINGS.

Memo, by Commissioner of Crown Lands. —There is in some cases but a small advance on present rates: this applies to the back country of the Timaru district and the neighbourhood of the Lakes about Mount Cook. In other cases the new rates are three times or five times the present rates : this applies to the Plains and the runs on the eastern seaboard. All previous legislation regulating the rents to be paid for runs in Canterbury have been based on an uniform acreage rate without regard to locality or relative value, and hence the very wide difference between the amount of advance in one case and in another. Laud District of Canterbury. Pursuant to the provisions of " The Land Act, 1877," the Land Board of the Land District of Canterbury gives notice that, subject to the correction for diminished area, as herein provided, the rent to be paid on the Ist day of May, 1880, in respect of each of the under-meutioned pasturage runs within the said land district, will be the amount set forth in the Schedule hereto. The assessment of each run is based on the area thereof as it stood on the Ist January, 1878; and the rent to be paid on the Ist of May, 1880, is the sum named in the second column of the Schedule hereto, less the deduction per acre in respect of such portions thereof as may be sold or reserved between the Ist of January, 1878, and the Ist of May, 1880.

SCHEDULE.

Acreage. Total Rent. Axerage Rent per Acre. Aynsley, H. P. Murray Australian Mortgage Company Bank of New South Wales Bank of New Zealand Canterbury and Otago Association Campbell, Robert Gould, George Gerrard, W. Mathieson's Agency ... New Zealand Loan and Trust Company New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Sutton, J. A. and G-. A. Trust and Agency Company of Australasia Teschemaker and Le Cren Tooth, F Union Bank of Australia Williamson, James ... Acres. 15,722 23.9'S 34,983 19,788 115.95° 1,090 81,381 143,309 48,992 105,419 646,537 51,34° 427,427 21,801 58,677 34,7°' 37,35° £ s. d. 237 8 9 627 14 o 1,204 6 6 222 12 o 3.233 12 2 35 2 1O 1,079 2 9 2,301 7 4 1,189 2 6 2,866 19 6 9,464 6 5 606 6 9 8,472 6 7 727 10 6 980 18 o 1,691 12 6 432 14 3 362 629 826 270 669 774 3-18 3'8 5 5-82 652 3S 1 2-83 475 801 4'oi 1170 278

Licensee. Area, 1st January, 1878. Kent Payable as on 1st January, 1878. Licensee. Area, 1st January, 1878. Bent Payable as on 1st January, 1878. dtken, J. C. and J. fl. R. Lnson, T. H. ... Lrcher, Valentino, and Mercer Lustralian Mortgage Company Ljnsley, H. P. Murray ... lank of New South Wales Sank of New Zealand larnett, W. and H. lealey, Samuel [irdling, W. ... tlackmore, T. D. Irubazon, John Acres. 16,318 2,114 7.O49 23.9'S iS./2^ 34,983 19,788 168 £ s. d. 473 4 5 79 5 6 253 IS 4 627 14 o 237 8 9 1,204 6 6 222 12 o 440 584 3 4 445 "5 o I 15 o 26 e ° Browne and Allen Brown and Gray Brown, J. T. ... Bruce, T. W. ... Burnett, A. Campbell, Eobert Campbell, H. ... Campbell, B., jun. Campbell and Low Campbell, W. M. Campbell, M. S. and J. E. Campbell Brothers Acre9. 8,353 33.79 1 13.879 12,000 £ s. d. 313 4 9 627 17 8 423 13 9 79 10 o120 o o 35 2 10 »73 14 2 '.457 9 6 52 10 o 176 5 o 45 o o 488 12 6 17.310 13.915 100 700 10,000 1,090 24,655 45.195 5.000 18,000 5,ooo 34,95°