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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4521, 16 September 1875, Page 3

Public Notices QITY CORPORATION. DEPOT FOR RUBBISH. The undermentioned place has been appointed as the depot for rubbish, &c. : That piece of land adjoining acre No. 225, at the junction of Courtenay-place and Cambridge Terrace, where notice board is erected. By order. WM. HESTER, Town Clerk. Wellington, 14th Sept., 1875. OTICE TO CONTRACTORS. WELLINGTON AND MASTERTON RAILWAY. INCLINE CONTRACT. Contractors supplied with quantities on and after Monday, 13th inst. Fee, ten guineas per copy. Tender being accepted, extra bonus twenty guineas. Apply WM. M. MANLY, C.E., Johnstou-street (next Theatre Royal), Wellington. OTlCE.—Messrs. EDMONDSON, SELLAR, & CO., having disposed of their Greytown business to their late Managers, Messrs. RIDLEY & WOOD, Solicit a continuance of past favors on behalf of their successors, and request all debts due to be paid to them. W. V. RIDLEY and F. H. WOOD, in taking the above business, trust to be favored with the patronage hitherto accorded to their predecessors. The business will in future be carried on under the name of RIDLEY, WOOD, and CO. WELLINGTON CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY (LIMITED). SHAREHOLDERS are respectfully informed that the dividend declared at the halfyearly meeting is now payable on _ application at the Society’s Store, Manners-street. By order of the Committee. WM. J. KIRK, Secretary. September 6, 1875. MR. LUDWIG’S Art Union is unavoidably Postponed until the Ist October jpl CON OM Y IN GA S. NEW PATENT GAS LIGHT CONTROLLER AND IMPROVER.

The undersigned is bringing out an INSTRUMENT that will LESSEN the CONSUMPTION and IMPROVE THE QUALITY of GAS in all large establishments where a number of burners is used. The instrument is fixed between the meter and the first light, and will so control the supply, without interfering with the taps or meter, that all waste arising from carelessness will be obviated, and the annoyance that so frequently occurs from water lodging in the pipes will be effectually prevented. For further particulars, apply to J. T. LOVE, Manners-street, Patentee ; Or, to J. M. TAYLOR, Odd Fellows’ Hall, Agent. Government Land Sales P R O VIN O E OF WELLINGTON. EXTENSIVE AND IMPORTANT SALE OP 12,000 ACRES OF CROWN LANDS. NOTICE is hereby given, that there will be offered for sale by public auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Provincial Government Buildings, Wellington, on TUESDAY, 21st SEPTEMBER, At 12 o’clock noon, The following Valuable Lands, viz.:— TOWNSHIP OF PALMERSTON. Town section No. 601, containing 3 roods 16 perches. Upset price, £25. TOWN OF WANGANUI. Valuable town section in St. Hill-street; J acre. Upset price, .£6O. TUKAPU DISTRICT. 1 rural section; contents, 114 acres. Upset price, £57. HOROKIWI ROAD DISTRICT. 4 sections, ranging from 89 to 148 acres each. Upset prices, £44 to £74 each. HUTT DISTRICT. COUNTRY BETWEEN MUNGAROA AND WAIKANAE. 58 sections, making an aggregate of about 11,000 acres, varying in size from 154 to 228 acres each. Upset price, 10s. per acre. These last named sections consist chiefly of good timbered land, the greater portion of the bush, including some patches of totara, being well adapted for sawing purposes. The land undulates into hills and valleys, and there are several small flats with excellent soil in the vicinity of the river. The deviation of the West Coast road Rue, for which a sum of £4OOO has been voted by the Provincial Council, will open up this land. In anticipation of the construction of this road, for which the bush is now being fallen, a bridle-track will be formed at once. This land will acquire a high value when the road line in question has been completed. Lithographed maps of the 5S sections on the deviation of the West Coast road line, showing their numbers, contents, &c. ; also Gazettes with schedule of prices, can be obtained at the Crown Lands Office, Provincial Government Buildings. Gazettes will also be supplied by the following agents : H. I. Jones, Wanganui G. M. Snelson, Palmerston Charles Harbis, Criterion Hotel, Upper Hutt. JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lauds Office, Wellington, 16th August, 1875. NEW ZEALAND. PROVINCE OF TARANAKI. GOVERNMENT LAND SALES. A SERIES of LAND SALES is being held in the PROVINCE of TARANAKI under the Waste Lands Board of the province, the Lands offered being Town and Rural Allotments, the latter varying in area from 20 to 320 acres, and the conditions of sale being by DEFERRED PAYMENT'S extended over Ten Years, by Auction, for CASH; and by FREE SELECTION for CASH. The district is traversed by the Waitara-Wanganui Railway, now in course of construction, and which is expected to be completed as far as Inglewood—the Township at the commencement of the district—in about eighteen mouths. The land is well adapted to working settlers of small capital, as it is easily accessible, has abundance of timber for building, fencing, fuel, and shelter; never-failing streams of water, and a very productive soil. A good main road traverses the district so far as it is yet open for purchase, and the District Roads will also be opened up by the Provincial Government, so as to make each allotment accessible from the main line of railway. Plans, schedules, land regulations of the province, &c., can be obtained at the Crown Lauds Office, New Plymouth. C. D. WHITCOMBE, Commissioner of Crown Lands Crown Lands Office, Taranaki, March 17, 1875.