DANEVIRKE

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4157, 18 November 1884, Page 2

DANEVIRKE

[riiOM OUII OWN COEIIESroSDENT.] Since my last I have caught a glimpse of the plan of portion of a se-tion hero that the _urvoyor.s have.- been at, work, on this last day or two. I was aware that the land had been bought at a good figure, ostensibly by one of our settlers,' and was under the impression that the survey was for the purpose of arriving* at the area,. but this idea ■was dispelled when I taw the plan of a well laid out township. I inubt say that the purchaser whoever ho may be Jyiowa what he ia about for ho has acquired ny far the be.st situated piece of ground-in tho whole settlement for his purpose, one end of it approaches nearest io Tahoraite of any (European owned land we have here, and tho other end is.dirootly'in front of/our station here, besides having frontage' to' the mail.

south road and another to Millers road I would not Be surprised .to : hear of a big figure being given for the corner as it would suit famously for -an hotel or bank site. One of our settlers having a few acres near lias refused I hear, £100 per acre _'or^ it. ■■ • liusmil give you some idea of what the iuture of DanevirkeisUkelytote: • ~ I wonder if a more euphoneous title tuan if so how to set about it. The settlement « put down by many who have never seen it asasleepy Scandinavian village,aud besides, it is seldom spelt correctly, even Government officials persist in leaving out an c or: an n, and otherwise fall into error.