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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5293, 13 March 1878, Page 4

Auctions _ _.A Line of'.Railway is now being surveyed to, run through the district. ? 1!' . asr NUKINENDA will be sold.at per Acre ! with all improvements. i f ,:L j -The Cattle, Horses, Stores, Working Plant, • &c., to be,taken by the purchaser at a valua- , tion in the usual manner. 1 > No. 3 • : 7 :f j NORMANBY, situate in the West Moreton Die- • trict, consists of about 32,000. ; Acres of most Valuable Freehold ■ Land, AT.!. FENCED IN AND SUBf DIVIDED INTO PADDOCKS, i conveniently and permanently i watered by . i : MARBOOLABA, MOUNT WALKER, AND WABBILL CREEKS (the latter being a running stream, and to which the property has a frontage of 14 miles), besides i several smaller Creeks and fine > Lagoons. ; s As an Agricultural and Grazing Estate this ; fine property cannot be surpassed, nor can it, i for its extent and quality, be equalled in the colony. IT IS THE CREAM OE 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 SUCCESSi FULLY IN THE DISTRICT, 1 and the 1 large crops of Maize, Oats, and Lucerne, f GROWN ON THE ESTATE, are evidence , as to its capabilities. The rich J 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 ligbtly- • timbered ironbark ridges, apple-tree flats, and ■ rich alluvial plains, heavily grassed, afford the i richest pasturage. ; : ' Situated as this Estate is, only some IS miles from Ipswich, to which place a railway is i already surveyed, and being so near to the I capital, render it most valuable as a Fat l 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 RESI- : DENCE, with garden, orchard, kitchen, stable, coachhouse, &c., &c. ; also superintendent’s dwell* . ing, woolahed, washpool (with steam engine and spouts), ample stockyards, men’s huts, r stabling, &c., &o. s On the. run are also all necessary outstations. With this splendid property will be sold about.— 11,000 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 i inspect to be convinced that this reputation is fully borne out. AS AN AGRICULTURAL OR GRAZING ESTATE IT IS WITHOUT EQUAL. BE W lu this lot (No. 3) the laud 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. ALT, 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. WEDNESDAY. 3rd APRIL, 1878. At 2 o’clock. Important Sale of Valuable Building Sites for Private Residences. Messrs, j. h. bethune & co. have been favored with instructions from Messrs. Levin and Co. to sell by public auction, at their salerooms, corner of Featherston and Brandon streets, on Wednesday, 3rd April, at 2 o’clock— The lease for 42 years of 8 sections of land, the finest building sites in the City of Wellington, being portions of town acres Nos. 619 and 629, Thorndou, having frontages to Thorndou-quay, Tinakori-road, and Hobson-street. The land is situated in the best part of Thorndon, and commands a magnificent view of the harbor. The auctioneers confidently recommend these sections to the attention of parties in search of healthy and convenient sites for private residences. Lithographed plans and further particulars may be obtained by applying at the office of the auctioneers. IMPORTANT LAND SALE ON DEFERRED PAYMENT. THURSDAY and FRIDAY, 28th and 29th - MARCH. MR. J. J. TYE has been favored with instructions from Alfred Newman, Esq., to sell by public auction in Napier on the above date— 1 10 OOft ACRES of the Arlington Xv/VfV/ Estate, on the- main road from Waipukurau to Porangahau, and not far from the Waipukurau Railway Station, is now being laid out in blocks of 500 acres downwards. This land is of excellent quality, and well suitable for agricultural and pastoral purposes, being all clear and ready for the 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 centre 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 j sections, and a beautifully-situated township named Wanstead, within a few minutes’ walk of where there will be a fetation on the above railway line. There will be ample reserves I for savings: bank, post-office, and telegraph , station, schools, churches, reading-room, &0., with all the streets 99 feet wide, thereby allowing abundance of room for traffic. | r Terms ; , ; ■ One-sixth cash (3s. 4d. in the £,), the 1 remainder at the end of seven or, fourteen I years at 6 per sent, interest.: J 1 .Plans are now in preparation, and will; be 1 issued at the end of February, when the land i will be open for inspeotion. JOSEPH J. TYE, • ' « ■ Auctioneer, Waipawa, \ ( February 14, 1878. ■ 1