RAGLAN AUCTION SALES.

Waikato Times, Issue 660, 12 August 1876, Page 2

RAG LAN AUCTION SALES.

We are tjlad tose our fellow settlers at Raglan about to take a step which will not only bring their district into notice, but render facilities for settlement, and also convenience native producers to a very large extent. Messrs T B Hill and W H Wallis intend holding periodical auction sales of live stock, implements, produce, and anything and everything pertaining to the business of farming that may be sent for disposal. It is proposed to hold the first sale, if sufficient inducement offers, at the Okete Falls, same time early in October. Circulars have been forwarded to the European setllers, and a Maori translation is now being printed by us, for the purpose of being sent amongst the Maories, for whose benefit as much as that of the Pakeha these sales are to be held and knowing the confidence which Mr

Hill enjoys amongst the leading chiefs of the natives, and even with the King himself, we cannot but believe that the projected scheme will prove a success and benefit to all parties. Should the first sale prove a success, future ones will be held of which due notice will be given in the Waikato Times. Tlio project 'houlH prove t succeM, and that it m>ij do bo ia to be wished from other ey«n than a btuiness point of Tiew. Anjtbing that tends to bring he nal t« and ouraelves together in friend y busi «»• rela'iODi carinot but be conouciro to a betler atate of feeling between the two races : and on Hieir na ive neigbbora, i d>>ed, will depend ye ry much the result o r the Me»srs Hill and W.illis' new proj -ct. If the Maoris chose, they can make it n 6Yctd«il tuccess, and, d»ubfcUs% ihey »re as fully aware as anyone elso of the Tilue to th» .«eler of competition amonßßt T urchasf re. Ai other good will also How from the hoM>»>j «>f tlie3e periodical «*les. 8u"li » sale Mil monthly cannot but attiact buy. rs an i sellers from Waikato, Bid :v further iea-<on wili thus be girf-n to, nnd pressure put upon the authorities to at once carry out the long talked of Raglan and Waipa road.