THE DEFERRED PAYMENT BLOCKS.

Evening Star, Issue 3506, 19 May 1874, Page 3

THE DEFERRED PAYMENT BLOCKS.

On M ‘Nabs : Fronts tbs north hank of the Waikaka for three miles, consists of alluvial flats and ge-t'e slopes of good soil, and adjoins the 5,000 acres deferred block recently opened. On M Tntyre’s : C'n opposite side of the Waikaka to the deferred blocks on run 111 (MTNab’s), and similar to them. On L ean’s : Choice block. The Waikoikoi runs down through the middle of it. Each section will have a frontage to the river. About five miles from Tapanui. Adjoins the 2,600 acres deferred block now being settled on. On M ‘lntyre’s, Trumble’s, and Islay: These blocks may be selected contiguous, and wifi form a most suitable location for a settlement. The Main South Road to Invercargill passes through for some miles. The distance from surveyed line of Southern Trunk Bail way is only five to eight miles across easy country. On the New Zealand Land Co.’s: This block is the country which opens out on the Main South Road, immediately on emerging from the Popotunoa Gorge going somh. It is well watered and grassed. Distant from two to four miles from Clinton. On Telmie’s: Consists of flat slopes from the Waiiuna Hills, fronting the Waipahee diver, near the Main South Hoad, and about seven or eight miles from Clinton. Soil good, but lies open to south-west. It will be hardly worth opening this, except in connection with a Hundred. On Herbert’s: is part of the Tapanui Plain. Situate on the ba> ks of Heriot Burn, and along the base of Dusky Range. Intersected by the main road from Tapanui to Lawrence and Teviot, Adjoins Crookston Hundred, Distant six to eight miles from Tapanui, On Fielding’s, late Gow’s : At the head of Wakaia Flat, next the Birch Forest, consists of terrace slopes and river alluvium, the latter intersected by old river channel *. On Bell’s : Part of the proposed I unhack Hundred consists of flat slopes of good so 1, running down from Dunback Range towards ybag Valley. It is situate between Macraes Boad and M‘Cormick’s Creek. On Butemenl’a : A fiat of very fair soil, five miles from the Lead of Wakatipu Lake, la situate between the Rees River and Diamond Lake, adjacent to the deferred block alrea iy opened.