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Mataura Ensign, Issue 254, 11 May 1883, Page 3

Meetings, &cPUBLIC MEETING AT MANDEVILLE A MEETING of residents of Mandeville will be held at the Mandeville Hotel on Monday next at 7 p.m. Business : To endeavor to obtain a school for the district, c93C J HITTING OP LICENSING COURT ANNUAL MEETING. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the lt . Annual Licensing Meeting for the under- ? mentioned district will be held at noon, at the place~and on the date named : Wyndham, on Saturday, 9th June, Sohoolhouae, Wyndbam. ARTHUR C HENDERSON, c 943 Olerk Licensing Court. LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY, A MEETING of those interested in the •*-*- formation of a Literary and Debating Sooiety will be held at the Railway Hotel on Wednesday evening next, 16th inst., at 7.30. J. NEWMAN BUTTLE, 1 J. WHITfSLEY KING, , c 952 Conveners. Auction Sales. THURSDAY, 17th MAY, At 2.30 o'clock sharp. 1200 ACRES FREEHOLD LAND, Waikaka Forks, Block XIV, Chatton district. DONALD STRONACH (on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited) has received instructions from the owner to sell by public auction, at the Company's new offices, Gore, on Thursday, 17th May, at 2.30 o'clock sharp, 1200 acres of very superior agricultural land, consisting of sections ], 2 and 6 (600 acres), and 10, 11 and 20 (600 acres) The land adjoins the township of Waikaka on the Forks, and Ilia Kelso-Gore railway (now being formed by Government) will run through the property. At the same time the Auctioneer will offer for sale Suburban sections 2 and 16, block XXVI, East Gore, containing about 10 acres ; and sections 11 and 13' block X, 'containing quarter acre each, in the township of East Gore Terms : Half cash ; balance could remain on mortgage for three or five years at the very low rate of 5 per cent, interest. c9g IMPORTANT NOTICE. STRATH»TAIERI ESTATE. EDUCATION RESERVE, (Through which the Otago Central Railway will run). To Small Farmers, Graziers, and others. 7000 ACRES MAGNIFICENT LAND on most liberal terms of payment, extending over seven years ; aur* veyed into farms of from 40 to 400 acres each. Also, TOWNSHIP AND VILLAGE SETTLEMENT. RB, MARTIN (under instructions • from the Board of Governors of the Otago Boys and Girls' High Schools) will offer for sale by auction, at the Chamber of Commerce, Dunedin, on THURSDAY, the 7th JUNE, At 12 o'clock, 58 Sections in Strath-Taieri District, being parts of Blocks 11, V, and I IX, containing from 40 to 400 acres each. Upset price from £2 to £6 per acre. I Together with THE TOWNSHIP OF ARDEN. Surveyed into sections of about a quarter* acre each, and VILLAGE RESERVE SECTIONS of about 5 acres each. THE CELEBRATED STRATHhTAIERI DISTRICT. can hardly be surpassed for profitable farms and grazing purposes, being capable of pro* i ducing grand, luxuriant crops, thick vigorous grasses' and unrivalled ia New Zealand for carrying a heavy stock. To the small or extensive farmer and the grazier this sale affords a grand opportunity for securing some of the rich eat and best land in Otago, consisting of fine, rich alluvial soil, dry, good pasture, permanently watered, and fine climate. In fact the land possesses in the highest degree all the attributes necessary for successfully combining agriculture and. grazing, and can turn out fine crops of wheat, oats, potatoes, and other roots. Terms for freehold agricultural sections : 10 per cent cash 15 per cent in three months 25 per cent in two years, by bills 25 per cent in four years, ay biJls 25 per cent in seven years, by bills Bills bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum. Township Sections—Terms Cash Village sections one- fourth cash $ balance bills in 12 months, bearing interest afc 6 per cent, Note.v. A title under the Land Transfer Act will be given to purchasers three months after the Bale, when the first and second instalments, amounting to 25 per cent, purchase money, shall have been paid. Interspersed throughout the above lands are 32 sections, ranging from 34 to 348 acreß each, and now advertised by the Commissioner of Crown Lands as open for perpetual leasing, in terms of 'The Land Act, 1877,' 'Amendment Act. 1882.' Tendera for these sections will be received up to TUESDAY, sth June, and the result will be declared by the Land Board on the day preceding the day of sale of the freehold sections above described, For par* ticulars regarding the sections which are open for perpetual leasing see Crown Lands advertisements in Otago Daily Timeß and Wituess. The Auctioneer will be happy to supply plans and further particulars on applica tioa at the Crown Lands Office, Dunedin The same can be obtained from the Secretary* COLIN MACANDEW, Colonial Bank Buildings, 0953 • . Dunedin. CAUTION pOISON is laid for Dogs over the whole o -*- the New Zealand Agricultural Com any's Property. : W. A. DONALD, Station Manager, .