NAPIER.
This day. Several hundred thousand feet of sawn timber is lying at Seventy Mile Bush awaiting transit. Tbe road is excellent, but there is no haulage available. The price of timber is 17s per 100 feet. The contract was taken for £500 for sinking artesian Avells along the railway line. Two thousand five hundred acres of agricultural land, adjoining Waipawa s'a ion, forty miles from Napier, is advertised for sale in December. It is being laid off. Mr Days, sub-contractor under -Mr Brogden for the erection of bridges on the railway line, has sent an order to Fraser and Tinne, of Auckland, for a pile driving engine.
Tenders are called by the Superintendent for the reclamation of four acres in a lagoon adjoining the proposed wharves and railway station at Port Ahuriri.
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Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1191, 17 November 1873, Page 3
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133NAPIER. Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1191, 17 November 1873, Page 3
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