Auctions A Line of Railway is now being surveyed to run through the district. sar-NUKINENDA 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 WAKRILL CREEKS (the latter being a running stream, and to which th- property has a frontage of 14 miles), besides several smaller Creeks and fine Lagoons. As an Agricultural and 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, and 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 acoe-s to the plough, and irrigation can be empl >yed 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 cut up into SUITABLY SIZED FARMS, * to be let or sold. The IVI PRO VEMENTS are everything that; can be desired, and comprise a BEAUTIFULLY-SITUATED RBSI- ‘ DENCB, with garden, orchard, kitchen, stable, coachhouse, &c., &c. ; also superintendent’s dwell-; ing, woolshed, washpobl (with steam engine and spouts), ample stockyards, men’s . huts, stabling, &c., &c. On the run are also all necessary outstations, With this splendid property will be sold about— 1 . , 14,000 Well-bred Fiuo-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, Workiug 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 iu 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. JB3T In this lot (No. 3) the land will be sold at per acre, Improvements given in. The Stock, Workiug 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 iu 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. FRIDAY. Bth MARCH, At 2 o’clock. In the Auction Room, Lambton-quay, Next Odd Fellows’ Hall. By Order of the Trustee in the Estate of George Bowring. Alfred a. barnett win sen by public auction — The lease - for fourteen years of an allotment of land, being part of section 182 on the plan of the city, and situated in Taranaki-plaoe. Further particulars on application to the Auctioneer. Terms at sale. FRIDAY, Bth MARCH, ; At 2 o'clock. i In the Auction Room, Lambton-quay, Next Odd Fellows’ Hall. Alfred a. barnett wm sell by public auction— UPPER HUTT DISTRICT.—IOS acres good agricultural land, being section No. 2, Whakatiki Valley, fronting the public road, close to Pabautanui, and near the contemplated line of railway between the Hutt, Waikanae, and Palmerston. Terms— One-quarter cash,and balance by bills at 3,6, 9, and 12 months’date. IMPORTANT LAND SALE ON DEFERRED PAYMENT. THURSDAY and FRIDAY. 28th and 29th MARCH. MR. J. J. TYE Ims been favored with instructions from Alfred Newman, Esq., to sell by public auction in Napier on the above date— ~ . 1 A AAA ACRES of the Arlington XvjvuV Estate, on the main road from Waipukuran to Porangahau, and not far from the Waipukuran Railway Station, is now being laid out in blocks of 600 acres downwards. This land is of excellent quality, and well suitable for agricultural and pastoral purposes, being all clear and ready for tlio plough. It is pretty certain that in a very short time the railway will branch off from between the head of the lake Hatuma, and Mr. Purvis Russell’s woolshed, going though the ceutre of this property-to Porangahau, and other places to the southward; There are about four miles of frontage to the main road, being laid off in about 40-acre sections, and a beautifully-situated township named Wanatead, within a few minutes’ walk of where there will be a station on the above railway line. There will be ample reserves for savings hank, post-office and telegraph station, schools, churches, reading-room, &c., with all the streets 99 feat wide, thereby allowing abundance of room for traffic. Terms : One-sixth cash (3s. 4d. in the £,), the remainder at the end of seven or fourteen years at 6 per cent, interest. 1 Flans are now in preparation, and will be issued at the end of February, when the land will be open for inspection. JOSEPH J. TYE, Auctioneer, Waipawa. February 14, 1878.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5287, 6 March 1878, Page 4
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