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

Auctions 5 per cent, on the purchase money, the rental being payable half-yearly in advance. For example, a block for which a cash price of £4 \ per acre is bid at auction, the deferred payment price will be £5 per acre, payable on 30th June, 1884 ; the rental ss. per acre, of which | 2s. 6d. must be paid at the fall of the hammer. All Titles are under the Land Transfer Act, and can be given within a week after the payment of the purchase money. Sale to commence at one o’clock.—Luncheon at 12 noon. The Auctioneers can confidently recommend the above Lands, or any of them, as certain to be profitable investments. The character of the Corporation colonising arrangements are now sufficiently well known to be a guarantee to purchasers that all the country in their neighborhood will be thoroughly opened by roads, and bona fide settlement promoted in every possible way. The Lands now newly opened and offered for sale are quite equal in position and quality to any other part of the Tedding Block, and there can be no reasonable doubt that the same rapid and successful settlement will take place on this part of the j block as has resulted from the Corporation I operations at Feilding and HalCombe. Efforts will be made to arrange with the i railway authorities for special facilities being offered to purchasers from Wanganui and intermediate stations on the day of sale. For the week before the sale one or two coaches will run daily from Feilding to Ashhurst and also to Cheltenham by the new road, and every facility will be afforded to intending purchasers to visit and inspect the different blocks. A Special Train will run from Wanganui to Feilding on the 26th March, leaving Wanganui at 8.30 a.m., Marton 10.30, Greatford 10.45, Haloombe 11.5, and arriving at Feilding at 11.25. Tickets will be issued by this train at single fares, and will be available for the return journey up to and inclusive of Saturday, 29th March. Feilding, 20th February, 1879. SATURDAY, 29th MARCH, 1879. Important Sale of Properties at Poverty Bay. MESSRS. PITT& FERRIS have received instructions to offer for sale at auction, at their mart, Gisborne, on Saturday, 29th March, 1879, the undermentioned properties, if not previously sold— LOT I. The Goodwill of Lease (18 years to run) of the MATAKOA RUN, situate at Hicks’s Bay, East Coast, containing 3049 acres of first-class hilly and flat Land, together with about 2600 half-bred sheep 4 working bullocks 10 head of cattle and horses Also, 6 roomed Dwelling - house, wool-shed, sheep-yards, whaleboat, implements See., See., Sec., This property is situate on the coast, and has a good shipping place, where a boat can land in any weather. There are about 2000 acres of rich flat land, 300 acres being subdivided into 4 paddocks, securely fenced in with posts and wire, and 1500 acres fenced with bush fence. LOT 11. The Goodwill of Lease (11 years to run) of property situate about a mile from the town of Ormond, containing 1468 acres, all fenced in, with about — 1500 cross-bred sheep Also, Small wool-shed and sheep-yards The above property consists of hills and good flats. There is one paddock of 160 acres laid down in rye grass, which yields a large crop of seed annually. This offers a favorable opportunity for investment to persons with small capital. LOT 111. The Goodwill of Lease (11 years to run) of property at Ormond, containing 192 acres rich flat Land, together with about — 800 sheep, three-quarter bred Also, Cottage with 4-rooms, sheep and stockyards This block has a frontage to the Waipaoa River, opposite Ormond. The Land has been cleared of bush, with the exception of about 40 acres covered with manuka; 130 acres have been sown with English grass. LOT IV. The Goodwill of Lease (9 years to run) of property known as the “ Delta” Station, situate at Tologa Bay, containing upwards of 4500 acres, of which 600 acres are rich flat Laud, together with about — 1500 cross-bred sheep 24 head of cattle 6 draught mares Also,, 2 Dwelling-houses (6 and 4-rooms), storehouses, sheds, sheep, and stockyards, &c. Upwards of 400 acres flat have been fenced and subdivided into six paddocks—24o acres being ploughed up and under crop this year. Small steamers and coasters can come up the Uawa River within a mile of the homestead — thus affording every facility for sending produce to Gisborne and other ports. Further particulars regarding the properties may be ascertained by application to the auctioneers. FERRIS & PITT, Gisborne, Poverty Bay.

ON THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1879, ■ At 2 p.m., AT MR. CHARLES CLARK’S ROOMS, Hereford-street, Christchurch. FIRST-CLASS STATION PROPERTY FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION. J. T. FORD & CO. have received instructions to offer for SALE BY P,UBLIC AUCTION, ON THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1879, At 2 p.m., In Mb. Charles Clarks Rooms, Hereford-street, Christchurch, That Valuable and Choice Pastoral Property known as CRAIGIEBURN STATION, UPPER WAIMAKARIRI DISTRICT, CANTERBURY, Consisting of—--56,000 ACRES LEASEHOLD, Of which 50,000 Acres are Educational Reserve, and the remainder Runs Nos. 163 c2 and 715 c 3. 557 ACRES FREEHOLD, With 20,000 Merino Sheep, mixed ages and sexes. 6 HORSES, and GOOD WORKING PLANT. The run is excellent sheep country, and its natural features, with about twenty miles of good fencing, divide it into six blocks. There are two extensive mustering paddocks, a ram paddock, and other paddocks in English grass and oats. The improvements are substantial, and in good repair. They consist of— Really good and well-built house of ten rooms Woolshed for nine shearers Men’s huts Stabling for six horses And other outbuildings Four sets of yards obviate the necessity of bringing the sheep into the home station more than once a year.