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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 106, 21 February 1885, Page 2

In order to prevent any misunderstand* ing we may mention that n« public notice wax giren of the meeting to form an Acclimatisation Society as the lime was too short. The canveners hope anyone who was not invited and who desires to join the society will accept this < x,>lanation. The following extraordinary letter recently appeared in the Hawera Star, addressed to the editor: — Sib,— Will you kindly warn the Maori fungus-steal-ers. through your paper, that we are determined we will not be robbed quietly. We hare placed dynamite in some of the logs on our sections, and when they are scraping them it will cause an explosion, and send them to the happy hunting' grounds. Perhaps if the chiefs hear about it they .wjlf, "iput the set " on them. — We are^ Ac., Settlebb. There was a large attendance at Messrs T. Kennedy Macdonald and Co.'s sale at the Athenteum Hall on Thursday last. The catalogue comprised sections in the Frtzherbert blocks, together with the township of Linton and suburban sections adiacent thereto on the line of the Wellington and Manawutu railway. The bidding was tame. The following Mots were sold :— Fitisherbert blocks— Section 294, upset price, C W. Walker; 303 upset, do. ; 334 upset, W. Coomb ; 335. upset, do. ; Linton, I, upset, H- Seegers ; 42. upset, W. Booth ; 43, Lls, G. Leslie : 78, Lls 10s, J. H. Morgan ; 79, Lls, W. Booth ; 138, upset, W. Booth ; 141, LSO, J. Plimer ; 142, upset, C. "Whitehead : 142, LSO, W. Booth ; 149, Lls. Lanoaster; 151, Lls. G. D. Partridge; 2 2, upset, 8. H. Pitt & Huirachberg; 221. L25, J. Plimraer; 222, Ll4, J P Shields ; 232, L7 10a, J. D. Partridge \ The total amount realised by the salewas. L2U44;m^d. 7 -Po > t. * ' ••