ANOTHER TOWNSHIP.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 31, 2 April 1879, Page 2

ANOTHER TOWNSHIP.

A few weeks since, when .we referred to, Ashurst as the.youngesV-born of B^anawatu* we.had; np .ide* hpw,. sjipivits /npse' inn to be? :.put ojij; of- joint by ; another-, new' arrival. ; Such, however, is to be the, case, as South ; Manawatu seems determined tji'at her i»ortW r.era neighbor shall not be allowed to absorb. • all the settlers whp^ come to the country, jor gather in all the dollars' anddinief. As ,has been^ well known, the. Hoi. Epbert ' Campbell having bought out the..wh)ole.o£j the, interest in. the Douglas Special Settle- ■ men);, has been expending thousands ofpounds ia his efforts ': tf>' place lorn fide. settlers upon the. land*. That he..nas\ sac*, ceeded in his undertafcaift , a "vlsjjj to r the; district will satisfactorily pjoT[e>; bu^ v alr. though there, is a large^numb^rof" people, located, ia the. settlement,' consideraofe.inconyience is experienced uirough their.iso-, lated position, so fflr.rempTedfrpm^town*. ship wherefrom to draw' tliejr' necessaries. This war^t a^o he. is. deUrj^in^d It* meet,' and for that purpps^h^has laid ofia town-' ship in thj&.Tery heart of- the, settlement the. sections in: which will be, open to competition by investors either. msidie!,o£©i4t of the, County* The, towrCbping. napied r atter.the. present 'proprietor;, will be calied' Camphell-. town, jin,d consist of about, four, hundred town, -.and fifty suburban* sectipnsV the. former, admirably. , laid out . into, four;acr». blocks, those, again, bei^g dixided into qjuarterra^re-. section^. The. streets ajje. t3J^ two chains ,wide. and that, along with 'the. | uniformity with which they hare, been' laid oujt, must necessarily, show to advantage. In. the. centre of the. townj a reserre offptbr, ; acres has been, kep£. as. a square, .and as we. i have already stated Mr. Campbell .has in-v structed his manager, to. secure, eligible, sites *as grants fop. a tpivn.-hali, athenajum, apd ; churches for. all the.religioiw dienomi^iitions, ' I Immediately a|t the.bpundary. of- the.tpyji^ 1 there, are. a number of choice. 6uburij»n:iois? ; ranging in Bizefrom ( five.roods^ three acres, . fchrou^i the. centre, of- .whjeh tSe. SanSon" road passes, as it also does right througK the. heart of- the. town. Camphejltown id. certainly placed before^ the, publip very different aiupices than are^ msp. yriilx in, most new^ tow^nsMps, inasmuch as. it noV ■ only has a large, population, sei'tli^d all' around it;, but by the/ terms ofjeafe . tjhVvendor pledgee mn^eif^pjace^ anther.,: 'seventy ' families— representing anj oocupa{ . tion.;of 70QD. acres-^-in the? vicinity imme-. • diately surrounding, the. tow^j,' Taken as' . an average each family, might easily ;' bj» said to comprise five persons,; so 'that 1 ! withoijt the, „., large population- already .settled near it» there would be 35Q in. th» c im^edmte/lpca;. lity. have, already, said that Campion's .■ road passes right through' the towi^, while^ also Jones's, road skirts the. boundary of -the. settlement. With . the,/ people. abTea^iy. located there, those to be placed all aroun/i the town by the terms of y s^le, tod, the open-' ing up, of the Taonuf Block | riot^fexemo^^

-•new era will certainly ta commenced, and the aid of the blacksmith, the whaelnght, the carpenter, arid other skilled labor will become a necessity. When_ alluding to the. Feilaing sale, westated it is our opinion that it was not politic to cut up' land into townships, however eligible the: site- might be, without first some attempt having been made to settle the country roirad about ; as lots which are bought: to '.be allowed- to lie by, retard the progress of any town. - There is perhaps no more glaring example at its" ill effects than in the township of Palmerston itself , where some of the finest lots are held by absentees, who will noither sell, build, nor lease, and 1 the consequence is that while almost every available' foot -of ground -has been utilized, the land held by those skinflints produce unsightly gaps which~attract attention, and damage it materially. Campbellfeown isiaid off m the shape of a parallelogram, fifty-sir fchains by 'twenty-eight, •which, while allowing- ample r fdrthe growth of population^ is yet not too big. We notice the street are all oalled after English rivers, Tham«s-street,i£s it should be, being the principal thdroughfare, while looking at the ma^oii^iiightf • easily believe themselves in Oamaru, with Ouse, , Severn^ Wye, Tay, and Tyne streets staring in' the face, but as the Hon. Robert Campbell is Chftirman of the., Waitaki; County Council, whose deliberations are held in that town, no doubt that fact" h»d much to do in the bestowal of the names; The title i is under the Laud Transfer Act, and when the terms of sale are considered— one third .cash; and the remainder by bills at f six and twelve months— we expect^^see^laifee-musteriof investors at the sale ; which.' takes place at Foxton on Saturday. • ■;' We notice T tnat the sale is advertised to take place at one o'clock sharp, but we consider this a mistake, as by tltat time the train from the north will not have; arrived, which no doubt will bring buyers from the township along the line; We would suggest, that the auctioneers follow the example of {he Messrs. Sherwill and Hajcomba, and place on a. special train, for there . can be -no Question at the late sale it was largely, taken advantage of Hi If the suggestion be not acted upon, then we would advise ( the. jSelayi- .of ; lhalf : an^hour/ otherwise many intending investors might refrain from attending, if they found that the puoceed^gs would commence before they could possibly": arrive. "If "a" special were hud on from Halcqmbi for F6xtsn, l*ai^i|^ qay at eiglit 6 v cl6ck a^darriving" at Foxton at" el^^ ;^heje %oul4; ,bje:pienty of time foe th«,s^.be^e^ J 'thW"and 'the de^ parture Of the evening train 1 ;• but : we feel ppflviflced th^t if thene ha no suoh arrangement it will matelrififlJy.MEectL tKa s \\coe3B ' of