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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5270, 13 February 1878, Page 4

Auctions THURSDAY, 14th MARCH. THOSE VALUABLE QUEENSLAND STATION PROPERTIES KNOWN AS 1. WAERA WARRA (Darling Downs), containing, in addition to the leased lands, about 26,500 Acres Freehold Estate; two miles from Telegraph and Railway Stations. 2. NUKINENDA (West Moreton), containing about 16,506 Acres Freehold ; about thirty miles from Murphy’s Creek Railway Station. 3. NORMANDY (West Moreton), containing about 82,000 Acres Freehold, eighteen miles from Ipswich, and two miles from the proposed Railway Station at Harrisville. WITH ALL STOCK AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON. /TNEORGE HARRIS & GO. have been V3T favored with instructions from the Managing Executor in the Estate of the late George Thorn, to sell by public auction, at their rooms, 180 Queen-street, Brisbane, on Thursday, 14th March, at 11 o’clock— The following MAGNIFICENT QUEENSLAND STATION PROPERTIES, viz.:— No. I. WARRA WARRA, in the settled district of Darling Downs, adjoining the well-known pastoral property of Messrs. Bell and Sons, Jirabour, and being of the same description of country, viz.:— Plains, lightly timbered box, and myall forest, abundantly watered by the OONDAMINE RIVER WILKIE’S CREEK COORaNGA GREEK, and numerous VERY LARGE LAGOONS. The grasses are of the best fattening description, while salt bush and cotton bush abound. THE RAILWAY runs through the property, and the Head Station is only TWO MILES from Warra Railway and Telegraph Stations, and 28 miles from Dalby, the chief town of this important pastoral district. Trains tun daily to and from the Station and Brisbane, thus placing the market and shipping port within ten hours’ communication of the Estate. There are about 26,500 acres of picked Freehold Country, as well as the leases of the following Runs, viz.;— WARRA WAERA KOGAN BBAEMAR which give an additional 134 square miles of Grazing Country, all WELL WATERED, and mainly BOX, MYALL, AND SALTBUSH. THE IMPROVEMENTS are in everyway sufficient and substantial, and may be enumerated as follows:—Situated in a paddock of 640 acres, and on the edge of a SPLENDID LAGOON, teeming with wild fowl and fish, stands the HEAD STATION, comprising a large, roomy, comfortable residence of nine apartments, besides kitchen and servants’ rooms, bath-room (water laid on), orchard, well stocked with fruit trees, vines, &0., vegetable garden, stables, coach-house, loose boxes, and all other outofflces necessary to the full comfort of the resident. Also, comfortable overseer’s cottage, large store and meat-home, blacksmith’s shop, men’s huts, engine-house, sheds, &c., &o. A CAPITAL WOOLSHED is just within sight of the house, and has pens and stands for eighteen shearers ; rackand pinion press, weighing machines, and all requisites for the wool season; shearers’ huts, sheepyards, &c., &c.; and is enclosed in a small paddock. There are also paling-fenced cultivation and calf paddocks, large and convenient stockyards, horse and milking yards. THE WASHPOOL, fitted with necessary plant, including 8 h.p. portable engine, centrifugal pump, large tanks, spouts, soaks, &c., &c., is placed on a NEVER-FAILING LAGOON of beautiful soft water, acknowledged to be the BEST ON THE DARLING DOWNS for sheepwashing, and is about three-quarters of a mile from the woolshed. The Paddocks are safe and conveniently situated, and the Out-stations, including overseers' houses, yards, Ac., Ac, at KOGAN and BRAEMAR, are all in good order. The Fencing, which covers some 34 miles, is of a most substantial character, and nearly all new. With the Station as above described will be sold THE STOCK, consisting of about 12,000 Fine-woolled Merino Sheep, mixed ages and sexes, and a Milker's Herd of about 30 head of quiet, well-bred, and broken cattle. There are also about 40 Horses, saddle and draft, Bullock Teams, Horse Teams, Ac., Ac., and a full and sufficient supply of station implements for the working of the place. It is scarcely necessary to say that the stocking is very light, and that the capabilities of the Station are up to at the very least 40,000 SHEEP. Ih completing this short description of a magnificent property, the Auctioneers would simply point out the fact that, as a pastoral investment, there is NOT ITS EQUAL ON THE DARLING DOWNS for sale. The convenient situation both as to market and shipping port, the permanent water supply and fattening capabilities, together with the really beautiful site and choice agricultural soil, render it good .all round as a Fattening Station, Stud Farm, or Fat Stock depot. The soil is well adapted for the growth of lucerne and other green feed, and there can be little doubt that the water supply alone gives this property an advantage over all its neighbors, while the result of the LATE GOVERNMENT SALE OF JIMBOUE LANDS (adjoining the Warra paddocks), so eagerly contested for, is a sure indication of the future of this valuable property. Unimproved lauds were bought at the above sale at £1 10s per acre. W2U The foregoing Station will be sold in ONE Li >T at per acre freehold, with the leases and all improvements given in. The sheep, milking herd, horses, teams, stores, working plant, Ac., to be taken by the purchaser at a valuation in the usual manner. No. 2 NUKINENDA, containingabnnt 16,506 Acres Freehold Land—the pick of the wellknown EBKDALE Hun—is situated iu West Moreton, on the eastern slope of the Main Range, distant from Ipswich about 60 miles and only 30 miles from Murphy’s Greek Railway Station, having a telegraph station quite handy. , It is a most compact property, consisting of splendid cattle-fattening country, undulating apple-tree flats, and ironbark 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 cnnsDt of a comfortable residence, built in a most picturesque and salubrious spot, and all necessary stockyards, men’s huts, Ac.. Ac. THE STOCK consists of about 1500 HEAD OF WELL-BRED CATTLE, and the usual number of Horses, Teams, Station Implements, Ac., Ac. The country is unsurpassed for its fattening capabilities, and a considerable portion being rich agricultural anil, Lucerne paddocks, for topping up, can be established with a certainty of success.