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West Coast Times, Issue 47, 21 September 1865, Page 4

IT is notified, for general information, that, at a date to be particularised in a future notice, probably in the month of November, 18G5, the Provincial Government of tho Province of Hawko's Bay will offer for sale, and lease the valuable landsj 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 laud has been sold in them. 1. — The township of Hikatu consisting of, about 600 town sections. This township will be sold by public auction, and offers unusual advantages fol 4 settlement. It is situated on the Wairoa, a river navigable for many mileß 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 country is at present unoccupied, and will be offered for public competition. 2. — Suburban land adjoining the township of Hikatu. This block will be laid out in lots of from ten to Bixty acres, and is nearly all rich agricultural land, a great deal of it abutting on the Wairoa River. It will be disposed of by public auction. 3. — Agricultural land,adjoining tho subur- - ban land at the Wairoa, and Mahia, and in different parts of the Wairoa and adjacent districts. There is a large extent of really fine agricultural land to.be brought into the market from time to time, as demand for it occurs. This land will be surveyed, and laid out in sections, suitable for the occupation of agricultural settlers, and will be sold to the first applicant at one pound per acre. Land for commonage will be reserved, adjacent to each black of agricultural land, for 14 years,equal in extent to the quantity of land sold or offered 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 cose, ten thousand acres, and be leased, by public auction, for fourteen years to the highest bidder. The sanction of the Legislature has to bo obtained before these runs can be disposed of. 5. — Township of the Mahia. This township will consist of about 200 town sections. It is situate at tho the shipping place of the Mahia Peninsula and adjacent districts. Tho land is good in the vicinity, and tho Crown has a largo acreage there for disposal. This township will bo sold by public auction. 6.— Suburban land, at tho Mahia, adjacent to the township, and of good quality, will be sold in lots of from ton to . sixty acres, by public auction. 7. — About six thousand acres of tho Ahuriri Plains, well known to be the richest agricultural land in tho colony, and immediately adjoining tho Township of Napier. These blocks aro held in lease from the natives for periods of twenty-one and twenty-two years, and will bo leased, by public auction, in lots, suitable for the settlement of an agricultural population for like periods. A future notice will be issued, giving the day on which these valuable lands will be thrown open to tho public, and particulars as to upset price, size of lots, &c, will be published. Settlors desiring to make permanent homes are invited to inspect tho districts about to bo opened for settlement ; they will find tho land of excollent quality, and the climate tho finest in New Zealand. It has been notified to us that the sale of the above Blocks of Land under the heads No. 1, 2, 8, 5 and 6, will be offered for sale on November, 29th 1865. DONALD M'LEAN, Superintendent, Province of Hawke's Bay. rSflwsTCiiuncH Agency. — Mr A. G. Stevens, High street, Christchurch, has been appointed agent for this paper, and is authorised to receive advertisements and subscriptions. "|Y,TR TATTON, Bridge street, has - I *- 1 - been appointed agent for this paper at Nelson, and is authorised to receive advertisements and ; subscriptions, NOTION f6 SUBSCRIBERS. THE Subscription to the West Coast Times is 17s 8d per Quarter, and is required to be paid iv advance. The Quarters will in future commence on the Ist -days of January, April, July and October, Subscribers desiring to com- 1 menco at any other time can do so by paying for tho fractional part of tho unexpired Quarter. 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