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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 7342, 5 December 1884, Page 4

Government Land Sales CROWN LANDS TO BE LEASED, FORTY-MILE BUSH DISTRICT, WAIRARAPA. IT is hereby notified that the under-men- 1 tioned sections are open for lease for a term of thirty years, with perpetual right of renewal. Written tenders (in sealed covers) are invited, in accordance with the Land Act, 1877, Amendment Act, ISB2. The price tendered must be stated in writing as well as in figures, accompanied by a statutory declaration, together with six months’ rent at the rate tendered, and a fee of LI 10s for lease and registration, to be lodged with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at the Crown Lands Office, Wellington, not later than 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 10th December, 1884. The tenders will be opened at the meeting of the Land Board on Thursday, the 11th December (the following day), at 10 o’clock a.m., when the highest tenderer, if the tender shall equal or exceed the upset annual rental per acre fixed by tbe Board, will be declared the lessee. The tenderers must appear at the Land Board, either in person or by an agent authorised in writing, on the day on which the tenders are opened. Plans and schedules of the sections, and copies of the regulations under which leases will be sold and issued, also forms of tender and declaration respectively, can be obtained at the District Land Office, Wellington; at any of the other Land Offices in the colony ; and may also be seen at the Railway Stations and Post Offices in the Wellington Provincial District. The numbers of the section and block, with the name of district, must be written on the covers. The letter being on “Public Service only,” and addressed to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, need not be stamped, being free of postage ; neither does the declaration require to be stamped. Any person of eighteen years of age and upwards may become a lessee under this system. In the event of any person tendering for two or more leases, the deposit of a sum equal to one half-year’s rent of the tender largest in amount shall be sufficient, together with the sum of LI 10s to pay for tbc a lease and registration thereof, paid either in cosh, marked cheque, or bank draft, made payable to the Receiver of Land Revenue, Wellington : Provided that in the case of a person tendering for two or more leases, such as he may in the aggregate become the lessee of under the Act, namely, in the case where the lands comprised in the several leases adjoin each other, in such case the deposit shall be a half-year’s rent at the rate tendered for each such lease, and also the sum of LX 10s in respect of each such lease, the fee for preparation and registration of same. Any lessee who has fulfiled all conditions of improvements within six years can acouire the freehold of his lease on payment of tne price fixed at the time the lease was granted, provided the payment is made within eleven years of the commencement of the lease. Note. —Limits of area for each lessee ; No lease shall be made to any person owning, nor shall any person be capable of becoming the lessee under a lease, or a sublessee, who owns any freehold land, or land held under lease or license under the Crown whereby such person shall become either the owner, tenant, or occupier in the whole, either by himself or jointly with any other person or persons, including the lands comprised in the lease, of a greater area that 640 acres anywhere in the colony. The sections comprised in the Schedule are situated at Pahiatua, in the Mangaone Block, in the Kopuaranga District, about Dreyer’s Rock, near Dreyerton, and front upon or are adjacent to the main road connecting Masterton and Woodville. Branch roads have been formed through the sections at Dreyer’a Rock, Central Mangaone, Hawera, and Pahiatua, at distances respectively from Masterton of about fourteen miles, thirty-one miles, thirty-five miles and forty miles. The Mangahao sections are within fourteen miles of the Town of Woodville. The Main Trunk Railway from Wellington to Napier is now being constructed to a point about seventeen miles north of Masterton. Sites for railway stations have been selected at several points. . The whole of the sections are covered with forest, the principal trees being tawa, rimu, hinau, rata, kahikatea, with totara in places ; the undergrowth is, as a rule, heavy; the general character of the soil is good, and in some places is of first-class quality, the formation being limestone, clay marl, sandstone, &c. The country is generally hilly and undulating, but there are large flats as well as broken ground within the area j it is well watered, and, as the climate Is also very favorable, the land should, when cleared and brought into cultivation, prove well adapted for pastoral and, to some extent, agricultural purposes. SCHEDULE. Survey District. Mangahao Mangaono XV. 11. Kopuaranga.. Mangaone .. Kopuaranga.. VI. vir. v. . xiv. J. W. A. MARCHANT. Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 30th October, 1884. Business Notices. WILSON & SON, WHOLESALE-CONFECTIONERS, COU RTENAY-PLACE, WELLINGTON, BEG to notify Storekeepers and the public generally that they are prepared to supply Novelties in the way of Confectionery. Christmas and New Year Goods a speciality. Warranted Pure and Wholesome, and supplied at reasonable rates. A TRIAL SOLICITED. 68 BREAD. BREAD. BREAD. jTO THE PUBLIC OF WELLINGTON. JF yon wish for a first-class Loaf, go to H. GILLS', TARANAKI-PLACE, Quality second to none in the City, Only first-class Brands of Flour used at the TE ARO BAKERY. 491 ) AND COAL DEPOT delaide Road. M A R 3 HALL Proprietor, Note.—Orders left at the yard will be punctually attended to ; as, also, those left at the office of J. T. Marshall, No. 3, Evening Post Chambers. 491 B CARD AND RESIDENCE For ladies and gentlemen visiting Christchnrch, for any length of time, from two to three days,. or longer, can be bad ot Sfehoib House, 275, Armagh-street West, close to tbe Museum, Park, and Gardens, and within 12 minutes’ walk of the Cathedral and Post Office, Every home comfort. Terms—3oa per week, or 5s per day. H’ghest references can be given in this city (Wellington). TRAM Wl R. w