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[nv TKuvtiuPH.— own coiißi;spoxr>KOT.] Thames Valley Railway. Accklyno, Wednesday Night. Mr E, B WAiiKKit his letmncd from London by the Kaikoura, having dis posed of 169,000 acres of land on the Upper Thames to the New Zealand Thames Valley Railway Company, which proposes to dispose of the same in terms of the prospectus recently issued. He states that the present upset price of rural lands is from 50s per acre, cash, and that land can also be taken on lease for a period of five 01 six years at a fixed rental, with light to purchase freehold at the expiration of the term, while farmers coming from England if they desire, secure their land by detcired payments. Since leaving England, Mr Walker learned that some $,000 or 10,0u0 acres of alien c land had been disposed of to some Noitheru suttltis on deferred payment, and theie are about 100,000 acres still open for sale. Mr Walkei has been absent fiom the colony since Match last, having taken his depaitiuc fiom I/yttelton on the 15th of that month. Mr R:ch, who is to take management of the Thames Valley Railway Company' 1 * land in Now Zealand is on board the Done, and will arrive here early in September.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2047, 20 August 1885, Page 2
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210LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2047, 20 August 1885, Page 2
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