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Daily Telegraph (Napier), 22 December 1883, Page 4

Government Gazette. PUBLIC NOTIFICATION. LAND DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND. SALE OF RUAKITURI BLOCK, WAIROA, NEAR HAWKE'S BAY. "J Q SECTIONS in the above Block, JLO comprising an area of 24,960 acres, will be offered for sale on immediate payments at Napier, on the 17th Januaby, 1884. Upset price from 6/- to 15/- per acre. At the same time and place 5 sections in the same block, comprising , an area of 4865 acres, Will be offered for lease for depasturing purposes for a period of ten years at an upset price per annum of from £7 10/- to £50 a section. The Ruakituri Block is situated in the County of Wairoa, about 12 miles from the Township of Clyde. It extends some 20 miles to the westward from the Gisbornc- Wairoa road, and lies between the Ruakituri and Mangaruhe rivers. The main road from Wairoa to Gisboro passes close to the eastern side of the block. Thirty-three miles of bridle roads on the permanent grades and seven miles of stock-driving roads, have been opened to these lands. The whole block, with the exception of a few fluts on the Ruakituri River, is pastoral country. The vegetation consists of fern on the spurs and in the valleys, and of scrub and bush in the steep"gullies. The soil varies; in places it is light, and mixed with a slight coating of pumice, in other parts where the pumice drift has been washed down the steep hill sidfs it is a calcareous clay. The sub-soil is marl; on the higher hills there is an overlap of .sandstone and a little limestone near Te Tuhi. These lands will take grass by surface-sowing ; the average cost for fencing, seed-sowing, &c, is from 20/----to 30/- per acre. Maps may be seen at all the principal Land Offices throughout the Colony. D. A. TOLE, Commissioner Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Auckland, 28th Nov., 1883. NAPIER - WOODVILLE RAILWAY. SUPPLY OF SLEEPERS. Public Works Office, Kopua, Dec. 14, 1883. f TTRITTEN Tenders will be received by VV the undersigned up to noon on SATURDAY, the 29th hist., for the supply and delivery of 10,000 sawn or hewn totara sleepers. . Tenders must be made out on the printed form, which may be obtained at the Napier Rail way-station, the Public Works Office, Kopua, and from the Public Works Overseer, Dancvirke, at which places also the specification and conditions of Contract may bo seen. Tenders must be sealed, addressed to the undersigned, and marked outside '' Tender for Supply of Sleepers." The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command, J. T. CARR, Resident Engineer. TENDERS. Land and Deeds Registry, Napier, December 18, 1883. rpENDERS are invited for Alterations JL and Additions to Offices. Staled tenders to be delivered to the undersigned not later than January 3rd, 1884. No tender necessarily accepted. EDWIN BAME'ORD, Registrar. Immigration Office, Napier, December 5, 1883. NOTICE is hereby given that for the convenience of country settlors desiring to nominate friends from home, the Immigration Officer will attend at the Government Buildings on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. On other days applications to nominate must be made at the depot. T. Acting Immigration Officer. Railway Time-table. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. NAPIER SECTION. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY ARRANGEMENTS. T) ETURN TICKETS will bo issued from Jl\j any station to any station from SATURDAY, 22nd December, to SATURDAY, sth January (inclusive), and will be available up to MONDAY, the 7th January. On TUESDAY, December 25th (Christmas Day), the Trains from Napier to Makatoku and Makatoku to Napier will run as usual. All others will be suspended. BOXING DAY. HASTINGS RACES AND WAIPAWA SPORTS. ON WEDNESDAY, December 26th (Boxing Day), the Ordinary Timetable will be suspended, and Trains will run as follows: — south Stations. 13 5* 7't 9 11 13 a-m! ;p m, p.m. t > m. Spit .. ilep i l fl '0 I ' , fair. I 10,38 | Napier j de(j 7 . 2b > 84011 0 U.45| tlu 6.35 Fiimdon .. 7.45J 9.0 It 22 11 6 | 4,30 ■' baksttj .. 7^ Hastings .. 8.5 920 U.-10 4.q5 KacecourSJ •■ ' 11 40 12.25 5 5 PaklPaki .. 8.20: 9.35 | 6.25 Poukawa .. 8 48' j TeAuto .. 8 6010 7 6 Kaikora .. 42 j 6.37 Waipawa .. 9 4110 55 ! 652 4.26 Walpukurau— f ! ( err. 11.16 , 4,45 9,20 1 dep. l'J-2 i;top ; 713 Tskopau ..10 42i ;80 Koi.ua ..11-5i 8.26., ..rmqmlville.. U 22 8,45 J Makatoku arriU3o 8.5u NORTH. Stations, 2 4 6 8 ;: 10* 12 11 J Makatoku depj 7 30 2 0 Ormoiulville..! 7.37' 2.7 Kopua .. ! 7.52J 2.3« i"-.k'i|au ..! 8.1 r>: 2;')) Waipuliurau.., 73' 856 1136 341 4.55 Wulpava ..' 7.40 ».14 1155 4 0 ft.lf. Kaikora ..'B4 O.ilj 414 5.20 To Auto ..; 534|10 7 J 4.60 0.0 Foukiiwa _!8 48 PikiPuM ..i 10.47 5.25 0.38 Ha"ecour?e .. 515 530 Hastings ..9.20 11.1 5.2" hi- 515 6.60 WhaUatu .. j j 7 8 Farr.don .. 9 40!11.22i 5.40 555 6.8 7.10 „ . I arr.;lo.O Ul.-l'ii 0.0 015 630 735 Wapl3r ttlep'ilO-10l j 020 Spit .. ivrr.jlO lt-j j I O.&J *Excursion trains. fThis train will not stop at Flag stations. *** Notk.—Excursion Tickets, including admission to Course, will be issued to Racecourse Platform, Hastings, from Napier, fare 3s; rind from Farndon, fare 2s. Those tickets will bo available for return on day of issue, and by excursion trains only. W. R. CARRUTHERS, District Manager. Napier, December 18, 1883. Art Union HASTINGS ART UNION. (By special permission of the Hon. Colonial Secretary.) npO bo disposed of by Art Union a valuJL able collection of Oil Paintings, Oleographs, and Chromos. Tickets, 10s each, can be obtained at the Masonic Hotel, T. Watcrworth's Provincial Hotel, and al, R. T. Smythe'n, bookseller, Napier, and all the Hotejfa and Stores in Hustings. The pictures arc now on view at J. Kelly's Hotel, Hastings. Drawing will take place on December 29, at Kelly's Hotel, Hastings. Tho Union will bo made up of 200 Members. J