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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 274, 2 December 1882, Page 5

/COTTAGES to be LET in Vanguard-st Kj Apply W. EOUT & C 0. , ,, 4253— ate Hardy-Street. Huifani Brothers, "D OAT-BUILDERS, &c, -° The Port, Opposite Lukins'a Lime-kiln. BOATS FOE SALE OR HIRE. 3484— 78 a BOOTS! SHOES! BOOTS I NOW CXPEISTINO Ex Cotopaxi, Sorre7ito, and other late arrivals — 9-€\ TRUNKS Ladies', Gents', and Children's ENGLISH BOOtS, german shoes, aid AND _ 9 c french Slippers. INSPECTION INVITED. Our stock as above is far too largo and Varied to particularise within these prescribed limits ; we will only say that the Goods are manufactured under the eye of our London Buyers, and will be sold twenty-five per cent, less than any House in New Zealand can do. Lightband&Go. CANDIDATES for the NELSON Kj BOYS' and GIRLS' SCHOLARSHIPS must present themselves for examination at the Pbovincial Hali,, Bridgestrpef, Nelson, on FRIDAY and SATURDAY, December Bth and 9th, at 10 a.m. Candidates must be between Twelve and Fifteen years of age, and musthaVe attended a Public School within the Nelson Education District for not lees than Twelve Months before the examination. No candidate shall be admitted to examination who baa.nbt •previously passed the Sixth Standard, as defined bj regulations. Teachers are requested to send .to the undersigned, not later than December Ist, the names and ages of candidates from their respective schools. Copies of tbe Scholarship regulations can b 3 obtained on application to the Secre'ary to the Education Board. W. C. HODGSON, 4060— 6 a Inspector of School?. SALE OF PASTORAL LEASES OF CROWN LANDS. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. General Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 20th September, 1883. ONE million seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of Crown lands will shortly be open for pastoral lease in the Provincial District of Otago, New Zealand. This country is at present held under lease in forty-six runs until the Ist March, 1884, and will again be offered in runs suitable to the nature of tbe country ; but no lessee will be allowed to take up more than will carry twenty thousand sheep or four thousand bead of cattle. The lease will be for a term of years to be hereafter determined ; but in no case will any lease be for a period exceeding twentyone years Compenaaiion for improvement np to three jeais' rental will be allowed at the end of tbe lease. la order to give tew pastoral lessees time t3 make arrangements, the licenses will, in terms of tbe Land Actn, be sold by public auction, at tbe Land Office, Dunedin, in the latter end of February, 1883, twelve months before possession is to bi given. One year's rent will be payable i» advance ea tbe license at i he time of sale. The country his been occupied for upwards of twenty years. It is well grassed, well watered, sound, and healthy Distance from port, by good roads and railways part of the way, from thirty to one hundred and fifty miles. Maps and further particulars will be obtaioab'e shortly at the L*nd Offices of New Zealand, and at places in the Australian Colonies, to be named in future advertisemei.t?. Wm. ROLLESTON, 3693— tc Minister of Lands-.