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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 37, 19 March 1879, Page 4

GREAT LAND SALJE ■!>/ „.- ■ -AW ;V ■•.'>;-' . .. : — oo .- ■ I RTJRIII, ; S LTfeIIRRAN, TOWN and VILLAGE LANDS, '■■;;'■ m the ■ ■ ! ': '. Feilding Settlement, MANCHESTER BLOCK, Manawatu. , «, . oo Messrs; Halcombe & Sherwill Have received instructions from the Directors of the Emigrant and Colonists' Aid Corporation, to sell by Public Auction, AT EEILDINGr, ON WEDNESDAY, THE 26th MARCH, 1879, And on the following days, if necessary, JZj q'j* V- 500 sections., COMPRISING OVER TEN THOUSAND ACRES, Being Village, Town, Suburban and Rural Lands, m Sections varying from quar ter acre to 500 acres, thus offering opportunities for profitable investment to all classes— to tradesmen, jto laborers of every description, to farmers wishing td'niake homes m" this prosperous settlement, and especially -. io^Mwmillersahd bushmen desirous of reaping a golden harvest fa }^l--* c6m thG Wangar.ui timber trade. '',*,_.*.. ':'"■... ' - oo ■ THE FOLLOWING ARE THE SEVERAL PROPERTIES WHICH WILL BE OFFERED FOR SALE :—

I. 9000 acres Rural Land m 41 Sections, varying from 50 to 500 acres. This magnificent tract of country is THE PICK OF THE MANCHESTER BLOCK. It lies all m the Valley of the Oroua. It is very level; is very well watered by several permanent creeks and by the Oroua River, yet no part of it is flooded, nor has it an acre of swamp, It lies within 2\ •miles of Feilding, and withia two miles of the railway. It-is connected— by a good metalled road .running, right through it^-with .the town .of. Feilding and the new town of " Ashhurst," on the Manawatu Gorge. Many of the Sections are covered with very light bush, chiefly tawa ; several on the other hand are very heavily timbered with a large proportion of totara, and are as fine sawmill sites as could be desired. Except with regard to the totara lands, purchasers will have the choice of taking up any of these lands lands on lease, with right to purchase, on very easy terms.. 11. The Corporation portion of The new Town of Ashhurst, comprising 190 acres, divided into 342 sections. This is a sistor town to Feilding and Halcombe. The towri 4 its,elf and the ©OuStry round is being* dealt with iivrtfiie way!"of Ixi^aHtde 1 settlement ; and' road-making/ fn precisely the same way -as Feilding and Haieonibe; investors may, therefore, confidently look forward lb a similar success to that which has* attended those who were so fortunate^as to be the first investors m those towrs. Ashhurstjis now. connected with Feilding by a good metalled road running direct through the Manchester Block. It is on the main coach road from Palmerston to Napier. The main railway line from Wanganui toNapier runs through the heart of it, The traffic from a very large portion of the Manchester BlOck, and from nearly the whole of the Wanganui Har bor Board Endowment Block, must converge upon this town, and rneefe the railway afc this ! point; and as m addition to the road lines already completed, other roads are now being rapidly opened m several directions from it, Ashhurst must be the central depot of an enormous timber trade, there being more totara m its neighborhood than inywhere else m the Manawatu. This town is the centre of tho operations of the Corporation now, and must continue to be so for the next three or four years. Independently of its importance as a convenient c«ntrc for a veiy large area of country. Ashhurst, from its proximity to the Gorge and to the meeting of the waters of the Pohangina and Manawatu Rivers is most interesting and picturesque, and, as has been frequently observed by traveUersJn the. Napier coach whe.Cplp? n IJ through, "it seems specially designed by nature for the site of. an important tdwu^' 111 130 Suburban Sections of Halcoifrbe, comprising 380 acres, the Sections varying m size from 5 to 40 acres. This Block of. Suburban Sections has been hitherto reserved from sale. It lies on the boundary of the town itself, within half a mile of the railway station, and is opened by a gopd metalled road running right through it. The whole of this block is covered with good timber either for sawing, splitting, or for firewood, and as this is the nearest available bush to j Rangitikei and Wanganui, the j timber on these Sections has a special value independently of the land, which, both ior position and quality, can hardly be surpassed. These Sections would be an admirable investment for any working man. IV. Tie Corporation portion of the, ' Town tiff Cheltenham, com? prising 89 Town and 5 Suburban Sections. ; This is a. reserved Block on the Kimbolton read, on the boundaries of the Manchester and Kwitea Blocks. It is about 8 miles.from Feilding. The Town Sections mostly front on the Kimbolton road, which is the. main road from Fielding to the interior, and is made and metalled from Fielding through this towr,

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 Kimbol ton road is rapidly developing. V.The Village of Stanway. This village comprises 24 small sections. It is situated at 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, an opportunity is offered, by the subdivision and sale of this reserve, for the sawmill or other ' laborers about to make a convenient freehold homo for themselves. The land is clear of bush, and as the village of Stanway is at the junction of the three metalled roads leading to Halcombe, Feilding, and Marton, it is a favorable situation for a store, a blacksmith's shop, a carpenter, and a few dther! 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. Halcombe and Sherwill, Feilding, will be forwarded by first post free to any part of the Colony. TERMS OP 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. Mbst^of the' rural land, excepting some special timber blocks and some of the larger suburban blocks, may be taken up by the purchaser' on deferred payment, m the form of lease, with right to purchase. The terms will be 25 per cent, added to the price bid at auction, and payable on 30th June, 1884, or at any previous time; and meanwhile bearing a rental at the rate of 5 per centron this purchase money; the rental being payable half-yearly, m advance, For 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 as. per acre, of which 2s. 6d. must be paid at the fall of the hammer. All titles are under the Land Transfer A<-*t, and can be given within a .. week after tin? payment of the r ,-.. 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 well known to be a guarantee to. purchasers that all the country m their neighborhood will be thoroughly opened by roads, and bona fide settlement promoted m every possible way. The lands now newly" opened and offered' for sale are quite equal m position and quality to any other part of the Feilding Block, and there can be no reasonable doubt that the same rapid and successful settlement will take place on .this part of the bjpek as has. resulted from the- Corporation' operations <>l Feilding and Halcombf. fj. ,,. : "'-* . Efforts will be made to-' arrange with i the railway authorities for special • • facilities being^bifereel? to purchasers from Wanganui and intermediate stations on -the day of sale. For the week before the sale one or two coaches will be run daily from Feilding toAshhurst, and also to Cheltenham, by the new road, and every facility will he afforded to intending purchasers to visit and inspect the different blocks.