MR HALCOMBE'S'NEW SET

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1649, 30 January 1883, Page 2

MR HALCOMBE'S'NEW SET-

The settlement of 'that extensive piece of excellent ( country known ( as^ Patjete^e. is not, we are glad' to 1 say, a matter of the r, remote future, but, judging from present appearances, is very near' at hand. The first batch of new. settlers; will/ arrive at Patetere survey next spring, and will at at, once have their land allotted them for the immediate purposes of cultivation. , M)r Halcombe, the organiser of the settle-P ment, intends himself 1 to bo the "pioneer. Settler of the cotmtiy. r, fHeiis at present 'having erected for his own accommodation a handsome six-roomed cdttagertt Lichfield, the premier township of the settle- , ment. Mr Jackson, surveyor, is at preset)^ busily engaged laying otf^a road 3 between Lichfielcl .and Ijlie Waotu bush, | in 1 order to facilitate 1 'the carrying of timber to Patefere for' 'building- pucposesj l; The bnsh rescrve.s >are not .yet 'definitely settled, but are' at present before the Lands Court at Cambridge. When the reserves are definitely fixed, the company will lease them from the native owners and erect sawmills immediately.