and some miles beyond. The Town Sections now offered are quite equal, if not superior, m position to those which at the sale of the other part of the town a week ago realised from £30 to £120 the quarter-acre. On the Suburban Sections, which lie along the Kiwitea stream, are to be found some of the finest clumps of totara m the country. One large saw-mill is' now being erected two miles north of this town, and Cheltenham must be the centre of a large timber trade, which the extension of the Kimbolton road is rapidly developing. V.The Village of Stanway, This village comprises 24 small sec-' tions. It ; is situated vit the junction of the Stanway' and Makino roads, two of the main metalled roads on the Manchester Block. The whole of the country round this village being occupied, ' ah opportunity is Offered, by the ' subdivision and sale of this reserve^ for the'sa'wmill or other laborers about; to make a convenient freehold homo for themselves.' The kind is clear of bush, and as the village of' Stanway is at the ; junction of the 'three metalled roads leading to"" Halcottibe'; Feilding,' andMarton, it is a f avorablk situation 'for a store, a' blacksmith's shop, a carpenter, and a fevr other tradesmen. ' """' '" '' ' Plans of the several blocks may be obtained from Mr. C. P. Powles', Hunter street, Wellington ; or if applied for by post or telegraph to Messrs. Haicombe and Shebwill, Feilding, will be forwarded by first post free to any part of the Colony. ' ' • ' TERMS OF SALE. 1. Cash, by which is meant a deposit 'of 10 per cent, on fall of the* hammer ; the balance payable at any time within twelve months, and bearing interest meanwhile" at 7 per cent."; but no interest will be charged if the balance is paid within six months. 2. Deferred payment. Most of the ' rural laud, excepting some special timber blocks and some of the larger suburban blocks, may be taken up by the purchaser on deferred'paymentj m the form of i lease, with right to purohase. The terms will be 25 per cent, added to the pi-ice bid at auction, and payohle on 30th June, 1884, or at any previous time; and meanwhile bearing a rental at the rate of 5 per cent, on this purohase money ; the rental being payable half-yearly, m advance," Fov example, a block* for which a cash price of £4 per acre is bid at auction, the deferred payment price will be £5 per acre, payable on 30th June, 1884 ; the rental os. ' per acre, of which 2s. 6d. mustbe paid at the fall of the hammer. .411 titles are under the Land Transfer Act, and can be given within a , week after the payment of the purchase money. The Auctioneers can confidently recommend the above lands, or any of them, as certain to be profitable investments. The character of the Corporation colonising arrangements is now sufficiently "wfeli known to be a guarantee to purchasers that all the country i irT their neighborhood will be thoroughly opened by roads, and bdiia fide settlement promoted m every possible way. The lands noW newly opened and "offered for sale are quite, equal m posi* tioh and quality' to any other' part of the Feilding Block, and' there can Be no reasonable doubt that the same rapid and success- 1 ' ful settlement will take place on this part of the block as has resulted from the Corporation operations Feilding and Halcombe. Efforts will be made to arrange "with 1 the railway authorities for special facilities Deing offered to purchasers from Wanganui and intermediate stations on the "day o£ sale. For the week before the sale one or two ■"coaches will be run daily from Feilding to Ashhurst, and also to Cheltenham, by the new road, and every facility will, be afforded to intending purchasers to visit and inspect the different blocks.
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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 34, 8 March 1879, Page 4
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