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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 39, 26 March 1879, Page 3

GREAT LAND SALE 1 RURAL, SUBURBAN, TOWN and VILLAGE LANDS, IN THE Feilding Settlement* MANCHESTER BLOGK, Manawatit. Messrs. Halcorabe & Slaerwill Have received instructions from the Directors of the Etni K -ant aud CoL nists' Aid Corporation, to sell by Public Auction AT EEILDING, ON WEDNESDAY, THE 26th MARCH, 1879, And on the following days, if necessary, 500 sections, COMPRISING OVER TEN THOUSAND ACRES, B t?a&^ ' all cla S8 es-to tradesmen, to laborers Te^aJZriS^n ?« * * t<? wishing to .make honu, m this^rosperouT S^ £ f n^^S?* to sawmUlers and bushmen desirous of reaping a go»deuham';^ 7 from the Wangai.m timber trade. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE SEVERAL PROPERTIES Wll G t WILL BE OFFERED FOR SALE :-

I. 9000 acres Rural Land m 41 Sections, varying from 50 to 5()0 acres. This magnificent tract of country is THE PICK OF THE MAIS CHE STKK, 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 Eiver, yet no part of it is flooded, nor has it an acre of swamp. It lies within 2| miles of Feilding, and within 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 oi " Ashhurst," on the Manawatu Gorge. Many of the Sections are covered vcHh 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 133H3 new Town of Ashhurst, j comprising 190 acres, divided | into 342 sections. This is a sis- | ter town to FeiMing and Hal- ! combe. The town itself and the country round is being dealt with i m the way of bnna fide settlej ment and road-making, m prei cisely the same way as Feilding ': and Halconibe; investors iaay, ! therefore, confidently look fori ward to a similar success to that i which has attended those who I were so fortunate as to be the first I investors m those "towns.. Aah- | hursl|is now connected with Feildi; ing by a good metalled road runxiing direct through the Manches- \ ter Block . It is on t he- mai n coach soad from Palmerstoßi to JS'apier. ■ The main railway line fuonv ! "Wanganiki to N apier runs through- \ the heart, of it, The traffic from I a very large portion of the Man- \ Chester Block, and from nearly ' the whoSe of the Wanganui Har s toor Board Endowment Block,. \ must converge upon this town, I and meet the railway at this • point ; amd as m addition to the j; road lines already completed^ i other roads are now. being rapidly opened m .several directions f roni ; it, Ashhurst must be the central depot of an enormous, timber trade, there being more totara m : its neighborhood than anywhere i else i» the JVlanawatu.. This : town is the «ent re of the opera - ■ tions. of tho Corporation now,' ; and must continue to be so ; for the next thrpe ov, • four ] years. Independently of its iin- ■ poi-wince as a conveniesi c«ntre ! for, a very laoge area of country... Ashhurst, fnom its proximity tip. - the Gorge an.3 to the meeting, off the waters of, the Pohangi4i)a.!a;n.d. Manawatu Eivers is most interesting and-, picturesque^. and», as has been fjpqnejatly obserjeed , by travellers iii.tjie.J^agiercoa^hv when passing, through,." it seems,apecially designed by nature for, the site of an iiutportawt tow^." IIU. 30 Suburban*,! Seftion»-. ot Halcombe, ; comprwiyg 3SO. acres, the Seeiions '. «ary : ii>g, m. size, from 5 id 40 atfre^. Thi» • Block. o& Suburban . S.ectipns has. 1 been hitherto reserve^icoui salt;. It lies on th.Q, bpuudary. of the ' town itself, within h..»lf a mile oi the railway statin, .and is. opened by ft,gQod met&Ued road running, right through it.. r i'he whole of. this, block is cowered with good timber either, for sawing/. sj>litti»g, or for firewood, and as. this is, the nearest available bush, to Kangitikei and Waugajjui,. the timber on the > se Sections, lias a. specials value, independently of the lan-d, which, bothfor positioa. and q^uaiity, can. hardly tie sur* passed. These Sections would be &n admiiable investment tot any working, man. , | IV. The Corporation, portion of! th*.Town of (Jheltenham,, com-. prising 89 Town and s ; Sulw»iban : Si-ctionK. This- is a reserved BUn-k on the Kimbolton I'tad, ok, the boundarirs of the Mauciwesteß I and Kiwitea Blocks. It is. about 8 ujiles-fvom Feildiiig:' The Town See'ti'Viis mostly front on the Kimbftiton, road, which is themain, road frmin Fielding to thj? iatetior.aud is made and nwtallfd i fim.-sieldin^ti^otu§|i.tki^ tqjvriK