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West Coast Times, Issue 35, 24 August 1865, Page 4

PROCTER'S GRAND ART UNION. OQIJO Worth of Valuable Goods, coneißting of— GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES CHAINS, BROOCHES, LOCKETS, EAR RINGS, And articles of utility and ornament, will be distributed to 372 subscribers, on tho prm* ciple of tho Art Union of London. T. B. P. invites the public to call at his establishment, and inspect the goods. Each article is entered at the lowset retail price, and warranted according to catalogue. Subscribers' tickets now on sale at T. R. PROCTER'S, Watchmaker ; and at BRACKEN'S QUEENSTOWN HOTEL, Revell street, Hokitika. TT is notified, for general information, that, JL at a date to be particularised in a future notice, probably in the month of November, 1865, the Provincial Government of the Province of Hawke's Bay will offer for sale, and lease the valuable lands, a description of which is hereafter given. The districts in which these lands are situate have only recently been acquired from the native proprietors, and no land has been sold in them. l.~The township of consisting of about 600 town sections. This township will be sold by publio auction, and offers unusual advantages for settlement. It is situated on the Wairoa, a river navigable for mmy miles from its mouth, with a vast country containing large blocks of rich agricultural land, and also an extensive pastoral district. The Provincial Government have about two hundred thousand acres in this district to open up for settlement^ the whole of this countryis at present unoccupied, and will be offered for public competition. 2. — Suburban land adjoining the township This block will be laid out in lots of from ten to sixty acres, and is nearly all rich agricultural land, a great deal of it abutting on the Wairoa River. It will be disposed of bypublic auction. 3. — Agricultural land, adjoining the suburban land at tho Wairoa, and Mahia, and in different parts of the Wairoa and adja* cent districts. There is a large extent of really find agricultural land to be brought into the market from time to timo, as demand for it occurs. This laud will ' be surveyed, and laid out in sections, suitable for the occupation of agrioultural settlers, and will be sold to the first applicant at one pound per aqre. Land for commonage wilj be reserved, adjacent to each block of agricultural land, for 14 years, equal in extent to the quantity of land sold or oftered for sale. 4.— Pastoral land, about (120,000) one hundred and twenty thousand acres of land, suitable for sheep runs situate in Wairoa, and adjacent districts, will be divided into blocks not exceeding, in any case, ton thousand acres, and be leased, by publio auction, for fourteen years to the highest bidder. Tho sanction of the Legislature has to be obtained before these runs can be disposed of. 6. —Township of the Mahia. This township will consist of about 200 town sections. It is situate at the tho shipping place of the Mahia Peninsula and adjacent districts. The land is good in the vicinity, and the Crown has a large acreage there for disposal. This township will be sold by public auction. 6.— Suburban land, at the Mahia, adjacent to the township, and of good quality, will bo sold in lots of from ten to sixty acres,' by public auction. 7. — About six thousand acres of the Ahuriri Plains, well known to be the richest agricultural land in the colony and immediately adjoining the Township of Napier. Ihese blocks are held in lease from tho natives for periods of twenty-one and twenty-two years, and will be leased, by publio auction, in lots, suitable for the settlement of an agricultural population for like periods. A future notice will bo issued, giving the day on which these valuable lands will be thrown open to the publio, and particulars as to upset price, size of lots, &c, will be published. Settlers desiring to make permanent homes aro invited to inspect the districts about to bo opened for settlement; they will find tho land of excellent quality, and the ■™A?! im # c , tho finest in Ne w Zealand. DONALD M'LEAN, 7 Superintendent, Province of Hawke's Bay. HARBOR DEPARTMENT. "\JOTICE.-Thero will be an anchor and ■^ chain, and lino attached, on tho South bpit, and boat and boat's crew in readiness at high water, every tide, to assist any vessel coming over tho bar. When the bar is only fit for steamers to take, a red flag will b Q hoisted on tho north flagstaff. When for sailing vessels, a red flag aud ball. By order, J. KERLEY, Harbor Master. Qiiristchurcii Aqknoy— Mr AG. Stevens. V H.gh «treot, Christchurch, has been appointed agent for this paper, ondis authorised to receive advertisements and subscriptions. MllM 11 T ATTON, Bridge stre^ThoTwn ML appointed agent for this paper at Nelson