GOVERNMENT LAND SALE. PROVINCE OP WELLINGTON. IMPORTANT SALE OF LAND IN THB MANAWATU DISTRICT TOWNSHIP, SUBURBAN, AND SMALL FARM ALLOTMENTS, TIMBERED SECTIONS, &c. IT IS NOTIFIED for public information that in the MONTH of JANUARY, 1866, an important auction sale will be held in Wellington of upwards of 5,000 acres, consisting of ! — Town Lots in the Township of Manawatu, situate at Te Awa Hou, the present landing-place for goods, about three miles from the mouth of the River These sections will vary from a quarter acre to one acre. A few Town Lots in the Townsimp of Moutoa, about, 12 .miles above the Manawatu Township, and also on the River. Suburban and Small Faum Allotments, in blocks varying from 2 to 100 acres. Thfese blocks are adjacent to the two Townships, and are also laid off on either side of the road now in progress to connect the Moutoa with the Manawatu Township, and on branch lines of road. Timber Sections (as many as can be surveyed will be offered for sale)— about 1&| miles above Moutoa, laid off on either side oil a road now in progress to give access through the bush u> the navigable portion of the River. These sections will vary fiom 100 to 320 acres, and several of them will have River frontnges. A Township will be laid off at a suitable place on this line of road, which will be a connecting line between the Kangitikei and the river navigation, througli the opeu and hush country of the Oroua and Upper Manawatu. The River Manawatu has a depth of water on the bar varying trom 9 to 1-j .eet, and is navigable for ve^se.s ot that draught for nearly 40 miles (by the River) from the mouth. The timbered sections to be offered for sale form the extreme end of a rich fiat block of forest land of great extent (about 60,000 acres) a considerable portion of which is covered with the finest totara timber. The road through these sections opens up the extensive plains between the Rangitikei and the Manawatu to the River, which is the natural and only outlet to that district. This mud will also form part of a line of inland road from Wellington to Wanganui. Cobb and Co.'s coaches will, after the 15th December, 1865, run at least twice a week between Wellington and Mauawatu, and every information can be obtained from the Survey Office at Manawatu by intending purchasers. Lithographed maps, showing the position of the lands to be sold, will be immediately prepared for sale to the public ; and as soon as possible, before the sale, a map with full particulars of the sections of land for sale will also be published. A future notice will be issued giving the day on which this land will be offered for salp, and full particulars as to upset price, size of lots, &c, will be published. A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE. Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Oflice, Wellington, loth October, 1865.
JD I X O N , , Faxcy Bread and Biscdit Bakkr, Confectioner, &c, Cuba street, Wellington, Supplies families with the best description of Bread, made from firsts flour. Cakes in great variety— Tea, Sallyluns, onge, Rusks, Buns, &c, &c. Orders forwarded to his address immediately Mended to and «bread punctually delivered every day • o families and hotels. Shlppj g supplied.
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Evening Post, Issue 254, 30 November 1865, Page 4
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