Auctions is a most compact property,'consisting of splendid cattle-fattening country, undulating apple-tree flats, and iroubark ridges, WELL and PERMANENTLY WATERED by Maronghi, Maria, and Nukinenda Creeks, besides several lagoons, never known to be dry. The whole of the country is FENCED IN with Wire and Top-rail Fences, and divided into Four Paddocks. THE IMPROVEMENTS are good, substantial, and quite up to the present requirements of the place. They consist of a comfortable residence, built in a most picturesque and salubrious spot, and all necessary stockyards, men’s huts, &c.. &c. THE STOCK consists of about 1500 HEAD OE WELL-BRED CATTLE, and the usual number of Horses, Teams, Station Implements, &c., &e. The country is unsurpassed for its fattening capabilities, and a considerable portion being rich agricultural soil, Lucerne paddocks, for topping up, can be established with a certainty of success. A Line of Railway is now being surveyed to run through the district. r NUKINKNDA will be sold at per Acre with all improvements. The Cattle, Horses, Stores, Working Plant, &0., to be taken by the purchaser at a valuation in the usual manner. No. 3 NORMAN BY, situate in the West Moreton District, consists of about 32,000 Acres of most Valuable Freehold L nd, ALL FENCED IN AND SUBDIVIDED INTO PADDOCKS, conveniently and permanently watered by MARROOLABA, mount WALKER, AND WARRILL CREEKS (the latter being a running stream, and to which the property has a frontage of 14 miles), besides several smaller Creeks and fine Lagoons. As an Agricultural aud Grazing Estate this fine property cannot be su.passed, nor can it, for its extent and quality, be equalled in the colony. IT IS THE CREAM OF WEST MORETON, aud is ALL good. Over two-thirds of the acreage is available for agricultural purpose’, and the whole affords the richest pasturage. WHEAT HAS BEEN GROWN SUCCESSFULLY IN THE DISTRICT, and the large crops of Maize, Oats, and Lucerne, GROWN ON THE ESTATE, are evidence as to its capabilities. The rich open plains on the banks of the creeks offer immediate access to the plough, and irrigation can be employed to an unlimited extent. The soil is of an extremely rich chocolate loam, intermixed with small limestone nodules, and easily worked in all seasons. As a Grazing Country it is magnificent, and only requires to be inspected to be fully approved. Whether for sheep or cattle, the lightlytimbered ironbark ridges, apple-tree .flats, and rich alluvial plains, heavily grassed, afford the richest pasturnge. Situated as this Estate is, only some 18 miles from Ipswich, to which place a railway is already surveyed, and being so near to the capital, render it most valuable as a Fat Stock Depot, while in the hands of a speculator it could be turned to most, profitable account by being cut up into SUITABLY SIZED FARMS, to be let or sold. The IMPROVEMENTS are everything that can be desired, and comprise a BEAUTIFULLY-SITUATED RESIDENCE, with garden, orchard, kitchen, stable, coachhouse, &c., &o. ; also superintendent’s dwelling, woolshed, wadipool (with steam engine and spouts), ample stockyards, men’s huts, stabling, &0., &e. On the run are a'so all necessary outstations. With this splendid property will be sold about—--14,000 Well-bred Fine-woolled Sheep, mixed ages and sexes About 1500 Mixed Cattle 80 Head of Horses, including Draught Entires, Brood Mares, Stock and Draught Colts and Fillies, &c., &c. Also, all the Teams, Working • Horses, aud Implements. To dilate upon the merits of NORMANBY STATION the Auctioneers feel to be quite unnecessary. All local residents know it as one of the most valuable freeholds in the whole of Queensland, and strangers need only inspect to be convinced that this reputation is fully borne out. AS AN AGRICULTURAL OR GRAZING ESTATE IT IS WITHOUT EQUAL. m- In this lot (No. 3) the land will be sold at per acre, Improvements given in. The Stock, Working Plant, Stores, &0., to be taken by the purchaser at a valuation in the usual manner. IMPORTANT. The Wool from Warra Warra and Normanby has always commanded the highest current prices in the London market. NOTICE TO INTENDING PURCHASERS. Catalogues giving full details of the above Stations, will be obtainab’e shortly on application to the Auctioneers, to whom it will be necessary also to apply for inspection orders. ALL TITLES GUARANTEED. , Terms : Cash, ■or one-third cash ; the balance by approved bills at 6 aud. 12 months, bearing interest at the rate of 8 per cent., made equal to cash, and secured by mortgage. On Rale OD LIVE ROIL HIIULBIO N (tasteless), easily given to children. Tolutine, Balsamic Cough Syrup Brown's Herbal Medicines Hooke’s Elixer and Salve Scltzogenes Ear Trumpets Cooper’s Sheep Dip Thorley’s Cattle Food. A large variety of NOVELTIES IN FANCY GOODS, Per City of Madras and Queen of the West, Artists’ Colors and Materials, at B A R R A U D & SO N’ S, Lnmhton-qnn v. O - ’"N SALE ATT ME l'A;\Aaia-al'ivaM : SALEROOMS—--50 bags new potatoes from Auckland 8 cases first quality bams and bacon, of the celebrated star brand ; every side bacon and bam guaranteed Butter, onions, and other produce Apply on the ground floor. U. J. DUNCAN, Commission Agent and Auctioneer. G “Trass SkeU—To arrive per IT BEN VENUE. White and red clover, timothy, sheep-fescue,, poa pratensis, trefoil, alsyke, lucerne, fiorin, sweet vernal, crested dogstail, meadow fescue, cow grass, permanent pasture grass. American timothy and alfalfa. English perennial rye. J. DRANSFIELD. ON SALE AT THE CITY STEAM SASH & DOOR FACTORY— Baltic deals, cedar aud mottled kauri Kauri and totara sashes, all sizes Kauri, rod pine, and totara doors Architraves, mouldings, skirtings, and cornice mouldings, all sizes Flooring, lining and rusticated boarding Greenhouse lights Sashes and doom, made to any size on the shortest notice. All kinds of turnery kept in stock. Glass—Rolled plate, ground, ornamental, and colored. Country orders punctually attended to. WADDELL. M’T.EOD, & WEIR, Timber Merchants, Johnston, Featherston, and Waring Taylor streets, Wellington.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5258, 30 January 1878, Page 4
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