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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 93, 12 February 1887, Page 2

20,000 AGEES OF FIRST CLASS LAND FOR SALE IN THE MANCHESTER BLOCK, MANAWATU DISTRICT -EAST IERMS! JNO CASH REQUIKED ! NO INTEREST AND NO RENT FOR THREK YEARS. EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR SETTLERS WITH SMALL CAPITAL. SECTIONS FROM 50 to 500 ACRES In Area, almost all of which FRONT GOOD METaLLED ROADS >"■ ' Th> Manchester Block is the best loaded district in the North Island. The Wellington-New Plymouth Railway runs through its entire length, i There are seveu.railway stations within its boundaries, so that no point is far from railway communication. On the .. cpnipiotion of the- Gorge, Line, which is now' under construction, there will be - another station at Ashhurst. The Manchester Block is the centre of the. Manawatu sawmilhng industry. . The present population is about 3,500. TERMS OF SJLE. — Immediate ' possession. For the first three years Jno rent will- be charged, the only stipulation being" that. improvements to the value of ten shillings per acre are effected i : annually, making a total of 30s in three years. On this being done, a conveyancs will be made out, leavin the purchase money ■ ■■' Or any poriion required secured on mortgage for any term up to 10 years, interest being charged at the rate of 6 per cent. ' for the first three years of the term and 7 per cent, for the remainder with the right of paying off the principal at any .lime in sums not less than £5< >, with a proportionate reduction in interest. This ' gives an occupancy of 13 years in all - before the purchase money need be paid. Tko price of the land is three pounds an acre. As it is being rapidly taken up, early . application will ensure a more extended selection. The sales for last year amounted to a total of 10,608 acres. The above offers splendid chances for ;■' men .of small capital to devote the whole of their means to improving and stocking . their land instead of sinning them all in purchase money. It is specially suitable for sons of early settlers about to start for themselves. Full information supplied to intending purchasers on application to the Com" - pany's Office, Feilding. Plans of Block and any information required sent free to any address on application by letter to THE AGENT, : Emigrant and Colonists' Aid Corporation. Limited, Feilding. IMPORTANT TO- THE BONA FIDE FARMER, : Who desires to settle himself, or to put <■'■■'■■• his Sons on Land. ■IMPORTANT TO THE TOWNSMAN, Who desires to settle in the country. IMPORTANT TO THE CAPITALIST, -i- Who desires a profitable investment for .-./-.■' his capital. .'..j ■..;: IMPORTANT TO ALL, Who desire to see a happy and industrious people settled on the lands of the colony. LAND. LAND. LAND. ...SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION Ofaßlock of the WELLINGTON AND MANAWATU RAILWAY COMPANY'S MAGNIFICENT FREEHOLD LANDS. . IN THE EXCHANGE LAND AND MERCANTILE AUCTION ROOMS, . rr r Panama-stbeet, Wellington. On TUESDAY, Bth MARCH, 1887, At 2 'o'clock, p.m. T^EENNEDY MACDONALD & CO. • are favored with, instructions from the Wellington Manawatu Railway Company, Limited, to sell by public auction, . ' asi above, .a Block of FIFTEEN THOUSAND ACRES OF MAGNIFICENT AGRICULTURAL LAND, Situate between the TOWNSHIPS OF SHANNON AND ,: 1 TOKOMARU, On the Company's Railway Line, and Subdivided into suitable sized Sections, BANGING IN ABEA FBOM 27 acbes to 700 acbes each. T.he above Magnificent Block of Fifteen Thousand Acres was purchased with other lands by the Railway Com* pnny from the native owners, ander the '",^ special powers .possessed by the Company \ and if well known to every resident en the West Coast of the North Island as being the very pick of the country For manybyearV it ihas.been looked at with envious eyes by the European rattlers, but it was impossible to induce the ' Maori" occupiers to part with it until the advent of the railway disturbed the . peaceful isolation they had previously enjoyed. . . The sections are mainly agricultural , land, with a small proportion of pastoral. They "are splendidly watered, and the timber upom them ir mixed tawa, rimu. henau, &c. The land is flat, flat and undulatins, undulating and hilly, and some of the flat* have very rich river deposits. There is also «ome exceedingly valueable swamp land capable of easy drainage The soil throughout ia classed by experts as exceedingly good All the sections are reached by cleared roads, running from the railway stations ><t Shannon ;md Tokomaiit, and thence in various directions throughout the Block. - "To thd-e resident in other parts of the eol<-ny wlio jmay be unacquainted with In* wonderful richness and advantages - of that portion of the West Coast of the .orth Island m which the Block is siiuaifd, it ip necessary to state that the " clim«t»- i* Mipfriur to that of any other pin. of. the C«>l"i»y. the Tararua ranees ..^lu-luTing-and proierting it from thr c<>M "«t-ull;< fly winds j<revailin« elsewUere in wiiiti-i • the grape, the olive, and many «fnii'l"' > p : <'al fruils ripenin? in the open i ":.airKAl'/» I d settlers are agreed thai ■Bjftilar Uinil will ciirry, when cleared an-l ;;•')«' cUb-vui wiMiEßiilisli crass-ex, some six " "'^H'ee'jj to i-Ut; nine 'tlie whole year through