Small Grazing-run No. 173, Block X.; 1,060 acres.

Agricultural and pastoral land, at an elevation varying between 300ft. and 1,323 ft. above sea-level. This run comprises about 45acres of good agricultural land on the frontage, and 1,035 acres of pastoral land, fully half of which is good tussock down or low bill land. The remainder is tussock and ferny hills. All is good sheep country, and much of it might be used for growing root and fodder crops. A considerable quantity of white-clover and a little English grass is intermixed with the tussocks. There is a little native bush in some of the creeks. Water may be permanent at the sources of some of the creeks, but it dries up in the lower reaches in summer. A supply might, however, be obtained not far below the surface in the creek-beds. This run is situated on the main road between Kaikoura and Blenheim, and eighteen miles distant from Seddon Railway-station. The improvements (which page 36 are included in the price of the run) consist of 49 chains of fencing, valued at £36 15s. (Note.—The public shall have the free right of; ingress, egress, and regress over the main road now in use, which passes through the section, until the road-deviation has been formed and opened for traffic).