GORE. &. P. Steel's application to have the price of suburban sections 8, 9, and 11, block XXVI, Bast Gore, reduced from £10 to £4 per acre, was declined. . . . ; ....... . . . ■ . OTARA. W. lurner's application to purchase 75 acres on section 8, block 111, Otara, was declined, the settlers requiring access to the land to get fire wood. DENGER. J.he Tuapeka County Council wrote with respect to Thomas Hogg's application to pur chase the pound site in block 14, Benger. They objected to the sale, stating that the section might be required for pound purposes.—Appli cation declined. : ...... skipper's creek. Robert Johnstone's certificate of application for a gold-mining lease over section 103, block 11, Skipper s Creek, was approved of. . . AGRICULTURAL LEASES. Certificates were approved of as follow :—R Gun, section 15, block 16, Shotover; W. dim ming, sectionß, Poolburn (on special conditions). . ' ■; _ - TABLE HILL. - R. Mill's application to exchange an agricul tural lease for deferred-payment license over section 86, block 2, Table Hill, was approved of. . EAST GORE. - ■ J. Latham's application for suburban de ferred-payment section 26, block 25, East Gore, was declined, he having already purchased a deferred-payment rural section. WENDONSIDE. . The New Zealand Loan and: Mercantile Agency Co. asked that section 1, block 11, Wendonside, be reduced in price. to 20s per acre.—Referred to the School Commissioners. MONOWAI. The same company asked that run 463, Mono wai, be reduced in upset price from £50 to £25. —lluu to be re-offered at auction at £25. TAPANDI. W. Rose, agent for Watson Shennan, asked that his ooal license No. 5 be renewed in the name of John Inglis.—Agreed to on payment of a yearly fee of £5 for seven years in addition to a license fee of LI.
