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RANGERS' Reports on Pastoral Deferred-payment Holdings in the under-mentioned Districts.

ffi 3 Purchaser's Name. Sect'n. Block. District. Area. Where Purchaser's usual Residence. Nature of Buildings, and Value of same. What Yards and Fencing on Section. What Improvements: Cultivation, Grass-sowing, &c. What Stock Depasturing, if known to be Property of Purchaser ; if on terms, from whom. If Sheep on Ground, what Brand or Ear-mark; where Sheep shorn ; how Wool disposed of. If Purchaser not on Land, what his usual or occasional Employment. 4 H. N. Hertslet < 1 VII. Waikouaiti A. E. P. 3,802 2 10 Found purchaser residing on section Small wooden house, ■ value £70 No yards ; partly fenced on three sides. West boundary adjoining Section 1, Block IX., Silverpeak, unfenced Burning flax and scrub, grass - sowing 2,250 sheep. Purchaser states them to be his own property Brand * ; found sheep on section branded t. Sheep shorn at M. C. Orbell's stat'n. Wool disposed of in London thro' agent Brand \ ; found sheep branded f. Sheep shorn at M. C. Orbell's station. Wool disposed of in London through agent Brand HM. Sheep shorn at his woolshed. Wool sold in Dunedin Employed by M. C. Orbell at shearing and other busy times throughout the year. 11 R. Borthwick.. i IX. Silver Peak 3,848 2 2 Pound purchaser residing on section Small wooden house, value £70 No yards; fenced on two sides, and partly on the north side. Ten acres fenced all round Burning flax and scrub, grass-sow-ing 2,400 sheep. Purchaser states them to be his own property Employed occasionally by M. C. Orbell. 22a Hugh McLean VII. Silver Peak 1,397 2 25 Pound purchaser residing on reserve adjoining section, no portion of his section being suitable for a house and other necessary buildings On section Hut, value £15; woolshed, value £50 Pour-roomed stone house, value £150; cow-yard Fenced all round paddock and yards ; value £40 Grass - seed sown over the whole section. Garden hut. 1,100 sheep; his own property Entirely occupied on his section. 8 W. Higgins IV. Silver Peak 993 2 10 Old boundary fence on north side not put up by purchaser Garden fenced in adjoining house Section let on terms to Gellibrand & Co. No sheep seen on section; 7 head cattle, 4 horses No sheep seen. Section let on terms to Gellibrand and Co. Entirely occupied on his section. 10 Charles Higgins V. Silver Peak 2,517 2 27 On section On section Two small huts, value £30. New house to be . erected shortly, sawn timber and iron for roofing on ground Hut, value £20 North boundary partly new fence, remainder old boundary fence; no yards Burn'g grass, scrub, and flax, and destroying rabbits Grass-seed sown Occasionally employed assisting his brother, W. Higgins, on section adjoining. Entirely occupied on section. 5 John Clyma .. Waikouaiti 1,150 1 1 Fenced on north and west sides 1,150 sheep, 100 cattle, property of J. Clyma and E. Nankerville adjoining 3 on rump. Shorn at Mr. Heckler's woolshed. Wool disposed at highest market; last season's wool to M. C. Orbell Same as J. Clyma 10 VIII. 6 Elias Nanierville Waikouaiti On section Hut, value £10 No fencing done Grass-seed sown Ten acres ploughed andfenced, gullies surface- sown, &c, £80 Entirely occupied on section. Works his land. 0 IX. 1,313 1 29 (See J. Clyma) .. 15 James Prentice 6 IX. Table Hill 1,720 0 5 On his section with his family Clay house, thatched, value £60 Yards and fencing, value £150 His own, 1,100 sheep, cattle, and horses P; sheep sheared by leave in neighbour's shed; sells wool thro' D. Reid * And hor, with bar. t Spur. I Square, with bar.