THE DURE OF MANCHESTER.
The following particulars of the Duke of Manchester’s interests in New Zealand is given by the “New Zealand Times ” :—The "Duke of Manchester owns ver}’ little land : in Manawatu, barety’, I believe, 500 acres. He is, however, Chairman of the Colonists’ Aid Society, which owns 100,000 acres in that district, which it is engaged as rapidly as possibly in surveying and selling to small farmers, and on which it has expended in road making, surveys, and other employment of labor, some £60,000 or £70,0C0 df money, and has founded the very prosperous settlements of Fielding, Halcombe, and Ashurst. Besides conducting this very successful colonising operation, the Duke has entitled himself to the goodwill of all colonists in his capacity of President of the Royal Colonial Institute, for a great many years, a post from which he lately retired to make room for the Prince of Wales as his successor. This valuable institute has for many years past employed itself in promoting the welfare of all the British colonies, and bason many occasions rendered them great services.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2447, 21 January 1881, Page 3
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180THE DURE OF MANCHESTER. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2447, 21 January 1881, Page 3
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