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THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1877.

In order to see the character of such lands as are or may be open for selection for the purpose of endowment of the Borough under the Municipal Corporations Act of 1876, which allows 2000 acres to be taken up for that purpose, Crs Kilgour, Read, Gibbons a.nd Wilson, accompanied by Mr Mac far land, Borough engineer, started in the s.s. Pearl to visit the Upper Thames on Wednesday morning. What report they will give on the matter remains, of course, to be seen, but our reporter, who accompanied them, states that the following blocks were visited:— (1.) flikutaia No. 2. This block was reached by the Reamer taking the party up as far as was considered judicious, and then an overland route was taken to the block itself. The result, we believe, was not satisfactory, as Dearly the whole of the good land on the flat was closed to the Borough, and such part as was open consisted of hilly country covered with fern, the soil of which hardly seemed suited to agrarian I purposes. Meeting the steamer again at the junction of the; rivers the party proceeded up stream towards the Puke ; a stoppage was made about half-way up at Xaupua, one extremity of the Waihou west block, and the survey here made was more satisfactory. The next day the other extreme of the same block was inspected, where theToawhati Creek joins the Waihou river, and we beliere the opinion was that the land in that place was good. .Resolved to see as much as possible, the steamer—in spite of snags, for which a strict look out had to

be kepi—proceeded upwards to the Waitoki, where there is a very fine block of land not yet the. property of the Government,•biifc which, it is stated, is to go through the Native lands Court on the 30th. The general opinion seemed to b e that though the land wa's undeniably good, yet the difficulty of access, there being no regular steam communication, and the distance from the Thames would render it unwise to select it. The Councillors then returned to the Thames, having done two pretty good days' work, particulars of which we hope to give in a future issue.

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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2608, 18 May 1877, Page 2

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THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1877. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2608, 18 May 1877, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1877. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2608, 18 May 1877, Page 2

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