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West Coast Times, Issue 36, 26 August 1865, Page 4

PROCTER'S GRAND ART UNION. jpq^O Worth of Valuable Goods, consisting of — GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES CHAINS, BROOCHES, LOCKETS, EAR RINGS, And articles of utility and ornament, will bo distributed to 372 subscribers, on tho prin* ciplo of tho Art Union of London. T. R. P. invites the publio to call at his establishment, and inspect tho goods. Each article is entered at tho lowsct retail price, and warranted according to catalogue. Subscribers' tiokets now on salo at T. R. PROCTER'S, Watchmaker ; and at BRACKEN'S QUEENSTOWN HOTEL, llevell street, Hokitika. IT is notified, for general information, that, at a date to be particularised in a futuro notice, probably in the month of November, 1865, the Provincial Government of tho Province of Hawko's Bay will offer for sale, and lease the valuable lands, a description of which is hereafter given. The districts in which these lands aro situate havo only recently been acquired from the native proprietors, and no land has been sold in them. 1. — Tho township of consisting of about 600 town sections. This township will bo sold by public auction, and offers unusual advantages for settlement. It is situated on tho Wairoa, a river navigablo for m.ny miles from its mouth, with a vast country containing large blocks of rich agricultural land, and also an extensive pastoral district. Tho Provincial Government havo about two hundred thousand acres in this district to open up for settlement, tho whole of this country is at present unoccupied, and will be offered for public competition. 2. — Suburban land adjoining the township of This block will be laid out in lots of from ten to sixty acres, and is noarly all rich agricultural land, a great deal of it abutting on the Wairoa River. It will bo disposed of by public auction. 3. — Agricultural land, adjoining tho suburban land at tho Wairop, and Mahia, aud in | different parts of the Wairoa and adjacent districts. There is a large extent of really fine agricultural land to bo brought into the market from lime to time, as demand for it occurs. This laud will bo surveyed, and laid out in sections, suitable for the occupa'ion of agricultural settlers, and will bo sold to tho first applicant at one pound per acre. Land for commonage will be" .reserved, adjacent to each blpck of, agricultural land, for 14 years, equal in extent to the quantity of land sold or oftored for salo. 4.— Pastoral land, about (120,000) ono hundred and twenty thousand ncres of land, suitable for sheep runs situate in Wairon, and adjacont districts, will be divided into blocks not exceeding, in any case, ten thousand acres, and bo leased, by public ' auction, for fourteen years to the highest bidder. The sanction of tho Legislature lias to bo obtained before theso runs can bo disposed of. 5. — Township of the Mahia. This township will consist of about 200 town sections. It is situate at the — — — the shipping placo of the Mahia Peninsula and adjacent districts. Tho land is good in the vicinity, and tho Crown has a largo acreage thero for disposal. This township will bo sold by publio 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 tho Township of Napier. These blocks aro 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 tho settlement of an agricultural population for liko periods. A future notice will be issued, giving tho day on which theso valuable lands will bo thrown open to tho public, and particulars as to upset price, size of lots, &c, will be published. Settlors desiring to mako pormanent homes are invited to inspect tho districts about to bo opened for settlement ; they will find the land of excollent quality, and tho climato tho finest in New Zealand. DONALD M'LEAN, Superintendent, Province of Hawko's Bay. HARBOR DEPARTMENT. >TOTICE.-Thero will be an anchor and -^ chain, and lino attached, on the South Spit, 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 lit for learners to take, a red flag will bo hoisted on tho north flagstaff. When for sailing vossols, a red flag and ball. Masters of vessels aro particularly requested to attend to tho small tidal flag on the spit, as tho sma 1 tidal flag and tho largo flag in ono takes them ovur the bar. By order, J. KERLEY, Harbor Master. pjHMSTCiiuiicn Agbncy.— Mr AG. Stevens. \ High street, Christohurch, has been appointed agent for this paper, nnd is authorised to receivo advertisements and subscriptions. MllM 11 ' 1^™ N ' P iid i° ■"A appointed agent for this paper at Nelson, ant is authorised to recoivo advertisements aud subscriptions.