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New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 4, 12 August 1842, Page 3

PROPRIETORS and the Agents of Proprietors of Land in the Settlement of Nelson are informed, that on the 20th of August ensuing, about half of the whole number of Sections of Accommodation Land will be, offered, for .selection.= .... These sections are contained in the following districts. Each district has its own series of numerals branded on the stakes which mark the limits of each section. SECTIONS. "First District. —Suburban, N. N. E., surveyed by Mr. Duffey, extends to where the Boulder Bank unites with the main land, having a frontage on the coast line, and comprises about 40 Second District. —Suburban, east, surveyed by Mr. Budge, and Messrs. Watts and Davison, comprises in the Maitai and Brook-street valleys 22 Third District. —Suburban, east, surveyed by Mr. Musgrave, commences without the reserve for the cattle market, having sections on the east and on the west side of the base line, as also on the coast, and terminates in the Waimea Plain, comprises about 60 Fourth District.—Waimea Plain, east, surveyed by Messrs. Bamicoat and Thompson, commences at the extremity of district No. 3, and extends southward to the River Wairoa, and westward to the River Waiti; comprises about 210 Fifth District.—Waimea Plain, west, surveyed by Mr. Cotterell, comprises the whole of the plain west of the Waiti and Waimea rivers, and some portion of hill lands of moderate elevation west of the plain, divided into .... 180 Sixth District.—The Motuaka, surveyed by Mr. Stephens and Mr. Brunner, in which will now be offered probably 60 Total Number of Sections 572 Plans of the several surveys will be ready for public inspection at the Survey Office, Nelson, early in the first week pf August, that of the Motuaka excepted, which, prior to ( the selection, may be seen at the Survey Station, Motuaka, on application to Mr. Stephens. The survey of the remainder of sections of the Accommodation Lands will probably be completed early in the month of December. Of these will be obtained in the Waimea Plain and adjacent valleys south of the Wairoa river 150 Fern lands adjacent to the river Moutere .... 200 In the Motuaka district the remainder, about.. 200 Frederick Tuckett, Chief Surveyor. THE Committee and Inhabitants of the Borough of Wellington, are requested to assemble at the Exchange, Te Aro, THIS DAY, Friday, the 12th instant, at a quarter to Twelve o’clock, to present the address (voted at the Public Meeting* on Tuesday night last) to the Right Reverend Dr. Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand. MICHAEL MURPHY, Chairman. POLIOE OFFICE > Wellington, August \\i \M2. HIS Excellency the Governor, has been pleased to appoint Wiliam Hay, Esquire, Harbour Master to this Port; to bear date from this day. By • His Command, MICHAEL MURPHY, Chief Police Magistrate,