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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5610, 22 March 1879, Page 4

Auctions WEDNESDAY, 26th MARCH, 1879. GREAT LAND SALE. RURAL, SUBURBAN, TOWN, AND VILLAGE LANDS, IN THE FBILDING SETTLEMENT, MANCHESTER BLOCK, MANAWATU. Messrs, italcombe & sherwill have received instructions from the Directors of the Emigrant and Colonists’ Aid Corporation to sell by public auction, at Eeilding, On WEDNESDAY, the 26th MARCH, 1879, And the following day if necessary, 500 SECTIONS, comprising— OVER 10,000 ACRES Being VILLAGE, TOWN, SUBURBAN, AND RURAL LANDS, IN SECTIONS VARYING FROM QUARTER-ACRE TO 500 ACRES, THUS OFFERING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROFITABLE INVESTMENT TO ALL CLASSES—TO TRADESMEN, TO LABORERS OF EVERT DESCRIPTION ; TO FARMERS WISHING TO MAKE HOMES IN THIS PROSPEROUS SETTLEMENT ; And especially to SAW-MILLERS AND BUSHMEN DESIROUS OF REAPING A GOLDEN HARVEST FROM THE WANGANUI TIMBER TRADE.

The following are the several properties which will be offered for sale : I. 9000 ACRES RURAL LAND, in 41 sections, varying from 50 to 500 acres This magnificent tract of country is THE PICK OF THE MANCHESTER BLOCK. It lies all in the Valley of the Orowa, is very level, is very well watered by several permanent creeks and by the Orowa River ; yet no part of it is flooded nor has it an acre of swamp. It lies within 2J miles_ of Fell (ling, and within two miles of the railway. It is connected by a good metalled road, running right through it, with the town of Feilding and the new town of “ Ashhurst” on the Manawatu Gorge. Many of the sections are covered with very light bush, chiefly tawa ; several, on the other hand, are very heavily timbered, with a large proportion of totara, and are as fine saw-mill sites as epuld be desired. Except with regard to the totara land, purchasers will have the choice of taking up any of these lands on lease, with right of purchase on very easy terms. 11. THE CORPORATION PORTION OF THE NEW TOWN OF “ASHHURST,” comprising 190 acres, divided into 342 sections. This is a sister town to Feilding and Halcombe. The town itself and the country round is being dealt with in the way of bona fide settlement and road-making in precisely the same way as Feilding and Halcombe. Investors may therefore confidently look forward to a similar success to that which has attended those who were so fortunate as to be the first investors in those towns. _ “ Ashhurst” is now connected with Feilding by a good metalled road running direct through the Manchester Block. It is on the main coach road from Palmerston to Napier. The main railway line from Wanganui to Napier runs through the heart of it. The traffic from a very large portion of the Manchester Block, and from nearly the whole of the Wanganui Harbor Board Endowment Block, must converge upon this town and meet the railway at this point, and as, in addition to the road lines completed, other roads are now being rapidly opened in several directions from it, “ Ashhurst” must be the central depot of an enormous timber trade, there beingmore totarain its neighborhood than anywhere else in the Manawatu. This town is the centre of the operations of the Corporation now, and must continue to be so for the next three or four years. Independently of its importance as a convenient centre for a very large area of country, “ Ashhurst,” from its proximity to the Gorge and to the meeting of the waters of the Pohanguia and Manawatu Rivers, is most interesting and picturesque, and as has been frequently observed by travellers in the Napier coach when passing through, “It seems _ specially designed by nature for the site of an important town.” 111. 30 SUBURBAN SECTIONS OF HALCOMBE, comprising 380 acres, the sections varying from 5 to 40 acres. This block of suburban sections has been hitherto reserved from sale. It lies on the boundary of the town itself, within half a mile of the railway station, and is opened by a good metalled road running right through it. The whole of this block is covered with good timber, either for sawing, splitting, or for firewood ; and as this is the nearest available bush to Rangitikei and Wanganui the timber on these sections has a special value independently of the land, which both for position and quality can hardly be surpassed. These sections would be an admirable investment for any working man. IV. THE CORPORATION PORTION OF THE TOWN OF CHELTENHAM, comprising 89 town and 5 suburban sections. This is a reserved block on the Kimboltonroad, on the boundaries of the Manchester and Kiwitea Blocks! It is about eight miles from Feilding. The town sections mostly front on the Kimbolton-road, which is the main road from Feilding to the interior, and is made and metalled from Feilding through this town, and some miles beyond. The town sections now offered are quite equal, if not superior, in position to those which at the sale of the other part of the town a week ago realised from £3O to £l2O the quarter-acre. On the suburban sections which lie along the Kiwitea Stream are to be found some of the finest clumps of totara in the country. One large sawmill is now being erected two miles north of this town,; and Cheltenham must be the centre of a large timber trade, which the extension of the Kimbolton-road is rapidly developing. V. THE VILLAGE OF STANWAY. The village comprises 24 small sections. It is situated at the junction of the Stanway and Makino roads, two of the main, metalled roads on the Manchester Block. The whole of the country round this village being occupied, an opportunity is offered by the subdivision and sale of this reserve for the sawmill or other laborers about to make a convenient freehold home for themselves. The land is clear of bush, and as the village of Stanway is at the junction of three metalled roads leading to Hal-combe, Feilding, and Marton, it is a favorable situation tor a store, a blacksmiths’ shop, a carpenter, and a few other tradesmen. PLANS of the several Blocks may be obtained from Mr. O. P. POWLES, Hunterstreet, Wellington ; or, if applied for by post or telegraph, to Messrs. HALCOMBE AND SHERWILL, Feilding, will be forwarded by first post, free, to any part of the colony, TERMS OF SALE 1, Cash—By which is meant a deposit of 10 per cent, on fall of the hammer, the balance payable at any time within twelve .months, and bearing interest meanwhile at 7 per cent.; but no interest will bo charged if the balance is paid within six months. 2. Deferred Payment.—Most of the rural land, excepting some special timber blocks and some of the larger suburban blocks, may bo taken up by the purchaser on deferred payments, in the form of lease, with right to purchase. The terms will be 25 per cent, added to the price bid at auction, and payable i on 30th June, 1884, or at any previous time, and meanwhile bearing a rental at the rate of