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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5612, 25 March 1879, Page 4

Auctions WEDNESDAY, 26tb MARCH, 1879. GREAT LAND SALE. RURAL, SUBURBAN, TOWN, AND VILLAGE LANDS, IN THE FEILDING SETTLEMENT, MANCHES. TER BLOCK, MANAWATU. Messrs, halcombe & sherwill have received instructions from the Directors of the Emigrant and Colonists’ Aid Corporation to sell by public auction, at Feilding, 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 FOB PROFITABLE INVESTMENT TO ALL OLASSESTO TRADESMEN, TO LABORERS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION ; TO FARMERS WISHING TO MAKE HOMES IN THIS PROSPEROUS SETTLEMENT J And especially to SAW-MILLERS AND BUSHMEN DESIROUS OP REAPING A GOLDEN HARVEST PROM 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 maenißcent 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 Feilding, 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 could 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 OP “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 fora very large area of country, “Ashhurst,” frbm 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, OP 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 tiniber, either for sawing, splitting; or for firewood ; and aa this.is the nearest available bush to Eangitikei 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 workingman., , , IV. THE CORPORATION PORTION OF THE TOWN OP > CHELTENHAM, comprising 89 tohh . 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 Peilding. The town sections mostly front on the: Kimbolton-road, which is the main road from Peilding to the interior, and is made and metalled from Peilding through this town, , and some miles beyond. 5 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 blunips of totara in the country. One large sawmiU'is now being erected two miles north of tbistown, and Cheltenham inust be the centre of a‘large timber trade, which the extension of, the Kimbolton-road is rapidly developing, V. THE VILLAGE OP STANWAY. The village comprises 24 small i ‘ 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, Peilding, and Martbn, it is a’ favorable situation for a store, a blacksmiths’ shop, a carpenter, and a few other tradesmen. . PLANS of the several Blocks may be obtained from Mr. C. P. POWLES, Hunterstreet; Wellington ; or, if applied for by post or- telegraph, to Messrs. HALCOMBE AND SHERWILL, Peilding, will be forwarded by first post, free, to any part of the colony. ’ .< TERMS OF SALE _l. Cash—By which is meant a deposit of 10 per bent.'oriTall'of “the, hammer, the balance payable at any tune within twelve months, and.bearing interest meanwhile at 7 per cent ; but no interest will be charged if the balance is paid within six months. 2. Detekbed Payment.—Most of the rmal land,' excepting some special timber blocks and some of the larger suburban blocks, may be 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 oh 30th June, 1884, or at any previous time, and meanwhile bearing a rental at the rate of