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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5267, 9 February 1878, Page 4

Auctions A lane of Railway is now being surveyed to run through the district. iter NUKINENDA will be sold at per Acre with all improvements. The Cattle, Horses, Stores, Working Plant, &c., to be taken by the purchaser at a valuation in the usual manner. No. 3 NORMANBY, situate in the West Moreton District, consists of about 32,000 Acres of most Valuable Freehold Land, ALL FENCED IN AND SUBDIVIDED INTO PADDOCKS, conveniently and permanently watered by MAREOOLABA, MOUNT WALKER, AND WAREILL 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. 1 As an Agricultural and Grazing Estate this fine property cannot be surpassed, nor can it, for its extent and quality, be equalled in the colony. IT IS THE CREAM OF WEST MORETON, and is ALL good. Over two-thirds of the acreage is available for agricultural purposes, and the whole affords the richest pasturage. WHEAT HAS BEEN GROWN SUCCESSFULLY IN THE DISTRICT, and the larve 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 inrigation 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 pasturage. 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 out up into SUITABLY SIZED FARMS, to be let or sold. The lIMPROVEMENTS are everything that can be desired, and comprise a BEAUTIFULLY-SITUATED RESIDENCE, with garden, orchard, kitchen, stable, coachhouse, &c., &c. ; also superintendent’s dwelling, woolahed, wasbpool (with steam engine and spouts), ample stockyards, men’s huts, stabling, &0., &c. On the run are also 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, and 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. ffS~ In this lot (No. 3) the land will be sold at per acre, Improvements given in. The Stock, Working Plant, Stores, &c,, 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 obtainable 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 and 12 months, bearing interest at the rate of 8 per cent., made equal to cash, and secured by mortgage. THURSDAY, 28th FEBRUARY. THE WAITOA STATION, UPPER THAMES, FREEHOLD. THE UNDERSIGNED has been favored with instructions to sell by public auction at his mart, Queen-street, Auckland, on Thursday, the 28th day of February next, at noon, the estate situate at the Upper Thames, known as The Waitoa Station, consisting of Waihekau No. 1 and part of No. 2, containing 3664 acres. This property is universally acknowledged to be the best piece of laud in the whole district. The whole block is substantially fenced. Six hundred and fifty (650) acres are laid down in grass, which is not surpassed by any in the provincial district of Auckland. The main line of road from Hamilton, Waikato, to Grahamstown, Thames, passes through the property; also, the proposed line of railway from Waikato to the Thames. This property is situated within four miles >f the head of the navigation of the Thames or Waihou River, and adjoins the celebrated Ilroomhall Settlement Block known as Te Aroha. Steamers now run regularly between the Thames, Ohinemuri, and Te Aroha. Where is a good dray road from Wairoa to the landing-place at Te Aroha. Stock can be driven to the Ohinemuri Goldfield, distant twenty miles, and to the Thames Goldfield, a distance of fifty miles. There is a substantial well-built dwellinghouse, and the necessary stables, sheds, &c.,on the block. Terms cash. E. ARTII UR, Auctioneer. fjl II E GRAIN TRADE. TO FARMERS AND OTHERS. Acting on the suggestion of some of our constituents, both Growers and Purchasers, we purpose holding PERIODICAL SALES OP GRAIN BY AUCTION, At our Stores in Cashel and Manchester I Our FIRST SALE will be held on the Twenty-first day of FEBRUARY, and we are satisfied that the establishment of this means of selling and buying' Grain will prove of real benefit both to vendors and purchasers. Samples of each lot to be submitted will be on view in store twenty-four hours before the day of sale. We can offer great FACILITIES FOR STORING GRAIN placed in our hands, either at Christchurch or Lyttelton, and in case the market prices do not come up to the owners' views, we can undertake the shipment and sale of the Produce abroad. We are prepared to make LIBERAL ADVANCES upon it on favorable terms. We are always in receipt of the latest advices from the principal towns in the colony, and also throughout Australasia, and will gladly afford information to those who confide their produce to our care. Our charges will be on a very moderate scale. ' JAMESON BROTHERS & CO., Christchurch. Note.—Oornsacks supplied st the lowest current rates.