UY KLGCrHIC XiSLlivjllAPH. PIIOH THE UNITED PRI2SS ASSOCIATION. DUNB r :TiSr, March 9. Mr C. Archer applied for a coal mining lease for seciion 18, block IV. Kyeburn.—A. lease was granted for 21 years, at 5s per acre, the lignite to be supplied at a price not exceeding 12s per ton. Urs Jane' Stephenson lirown was declared the lessee of perpetu il-le;is!> section 58, block IX, Stratn-Tiiieri, ai the upset of 8s per acre, Messrs Conneli and Moodie (on behalf of J. E. Glover) mad-' applica tion to have sections 11; 12, 18, and 14, Dursback, offered for sale.—lt was resolved to lease the land at Is per acre for ten years as pastoral (Country. The Chief Commissioner read a memo, from the Under-Secretary for Grown Lands, who forwarded a petition from settlers m the Lander district regarding lands in the Mata ka mi run. —Tt was resolved—"That, in the opinion of the Board, it is not expedient at present to sell the land in question m larre areas, but that if thr> petitioners will give a bond df £SOO to clear, and keep clear, the 1 and of rabbits, the Chief Commissioner m«v, when the present arrangement with the runhoMer is ended, make arrangements to allow the petitioners to use the unsold lands for grazing purposes ur.til the land is required for settlement."

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We invito coiTPsi>nn'li"DCn ukim ail subjects, but wo wisli it co bo 'listin-t.lv tiniler-tooil that we Ho nut idontifv onrsnlvos witli tlio npiuions and senti nients expressed by our carrospoauenta. "FARMER" V. "L )VEROP TROTH." TO THE EDITOR Sir,—T saw in your list a le tar Bigne • " Lover of Truth." It is evid-nt from ita conte ts that be and the Jotter f-dm Bl idks hve changed plieea. The lat'er advert'sed the mil er and the mill high iirid low, rela ; ed thu g)iid nnJ ihe evil for an 1 against it hroujh almost eve-y part of ihe C>u >ty ; and ''Lover of Tru/h " is now paying him back in kin 1. by aiverti-ing his Tain, as it is so fa" - true that he lihs all Ilia lust year's chip on hind in cuuim-m Willi a good ""any others; bu' *" L iv.-r ot Trut.n," with his usual finility in f.l-ifung tru b an I oa'ling white b'aek, eta', a it. 