SOUTHERN AND LAND BOARD.

Otago Witness, Issue 2302, 14 April 1898, Page 17

SOUTH E RN AND LAND BOARD.

The meeting field on Thursday, April 7, wa| attended by the Chief Commissioner (Mr D^ Barron), and Messrs A. Kinross, A. Baldey, J. M'lutyre, and D. King. < 1 The Winton Borough Council requested the reservation of section 13, block V, of the township as a municipal endowment. — Government to be recommended to grant application. j C. A. Bonney asked for the exclusive use oi au old tramway in block XXIII, Invercargill Hundred, formerly held by the New Zealand Pine Company. — Refused. * >>

In regard to an application from the Southland County Council for the survey of a road through run No. 257, asked for by John Muir, of Fortification station, the Ranger reported that it was nofc advisable to grant request before the land is surveyed for settlement.— Application refused. In regard to John Spratt's application to purchase an island in the Mataura, the ranger recommended the sale of the same at £1 per acre. — To be offered at auction at j£2 per acre with survey fee added and not pirt of payment of land. t The ranger recommended that the reserve in Mataura Island, applied for by Johnston Wylie, be leased from year to year at £1 per annum. — Adopted.

Robert Sutherland applied for a grazing license over the open portion of section 10, block 11, Lillbum, at 2d per acre, or Id per acre over the whole section. — Application granted at Id per acre, subject to resumption at any time, with right of removal of fencing. Hugh Killen applied for a lease of sections 8 and 9, block XII, Ofceramika, at 2d per acre for about three years.— Declined.

J«mes Mason" applied for reduction of the rent of small grazing run No. 14, section 89, Wairaki. — To be informed that the board has no power to reduce the rent.

The following applications for land were granted : -Robert Scobie, juu, for sections 64 and 75, Takitimo ; J. IT Phillipson, sections 13 and 14, block 111, Seaward Bush township ; Mary Davis, section 41, block IV, Toi Tois ; C. E. Giles, section 580, Hokonui ; W. R. Rein, sections 121 and 122, block I, Patterson district; Helen L. Hunt, section 32, block X Yin ; and E. W. Pearssy, section 3», block XVIIf, Jacobs River Hundred. The transfer of a grazing run in the Takitimo district from Jesse Gibbs to Alex. P. Scobie was sanctioned subject to payment of rent due. The following sections were declared forfeited :—: — T. Tangney, section 4, block XVI, Longwood ; W. 11. Hirst, section 30, block IV, Longwood ; G. Brighton, section 62, Wairalfi ; M. Waldron, section 6, block VII. Mak-avewa ; J. Moffetfc, section 71, block I, Wendon ; Wm. Wybrow, sections 46, 47, 50, and 52 to 56, block 11, Waikawa ; J. M'Kay, sections 58 and 59, block V, Longwooa • Thomas Edwards, sections 62 and 63, block XV, Invercargill Hundred.

The following were ordered to be called on to show cause why their sections should not be forfeited : -Hugh Sutherland, section 11, block IT, Lillburu : and J. J. Weavers, sections 97 and 104, block XX, Invercargill Hundred. James Spiatt applied to purchase an island of about five acres in the Msftaura River. — To be offered at an upset of £2 per acre.

Colonel Webb, it ia stated, will visit Wellington on the 20fch inst. He will pay an extended visit to all the northern centres in connection with defence affairs.

The Minister for Railways, in the course oE an interview on Saturday afternoon with stewards of the Dunedin Jockey Club, observed that the time was nofc far diitanfc when, ia order to cope with the increasing goods traffic, ifc would be necessary to lay a double line of rails on the main, south railway.

Trustworthy private letters wribtea :n September from Redjaf on the Upper Nile, LfcenUy occupied by Congo troops, say that a body p£ Dervishes on a reconnoitring expedition lately approached the town. They retired, bai 10 Europeans in chains were seen among them. As it is impossible, that the prisoners can be Belgians or British, ifc it believed chat i,hey belong to one o? the French expeditions, and ib in thought possible that ifc \s Marehand'e.