The following applications to purchase under exchange leases were approved:— Jas. Cleary, section IS, and Bams, sootion 55, block I, Tiger Hill,

ARRIVAL. November 27th. Beautiful Star, s.s., 146 tons, Jones, from Timaru. Union Company, agents. Passenger— Miss Buchanan November 28fch. Claud Hamilton, s.s., 630 tons, O Calder, from Melbourne, via Hobart Town and tho Bluff. Union Company, hgents. Passengers — Mr and Mrs Walker, Misses Tye, Chapmin, Rhodes. Nairn, I'urnbull (2), Master Turnbull, Messrs Todd, Barker, Merritt, Doug las, Fiyzer, and 15 in the steerage. Shag, S.S., 31 tons, Wing, for Shag Point. H Guthrie, agent. Stella, C a S, 179 tons, M'Kersie, from the North. November 29 bh. November 29— Beautiful Star, s.s., 148 tons, Jones, from Oamaru. Union Company, agents.
Taiaroa, s.a., 278 tons, Pietersen, from the North. Union Company, agents. Passengers — Mesdames Fidler, Foederiers, Miss Fidler, Messrs Campbell, Foederiers, Anderson, Thompson, Barrett, Buckiey, Jenkins, Olson, Roberts, and 10 steerage. Frederick Bassll, barque, 842 tons, Best, from New castlo. X Bamsay, agent, Maggie Paterson, schooner, 83 tons, Paterson, from Foxton. X Ramsay, agent.
ARRIVAL OF THE HERMIONE.
