irg faction. SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1864. POKENO ! POKENO ! (By order of the Mortgagee.) JONES & CO. Have received instructions to soil by auction, at Brunswick Buildings, on SATURDAY, tlie 9tli July, ut 12 o'olock'sharp, NUMBER OF VALUABLE BUILDING ALLOTMENTS IN THE TOWNSHIP OF POKENO, reserved at tlio last sale of Pokeno by the owner, as being the best and most valuable business sites in the township. 6 very valuable allotments in Sec. 41 of Township of Pokeno, adjoining the Queen's Redoubt, and fronting Brown-street and the Great South Road. 2 very valuable Allotments opposite corner of Brown-street and the Great South Road. That piece of land upon which the Queen's Redoubt stands. It commands 540 feet frontago to the Great South Road, from which it has a depth of 25
feet to tlio diteli —tho ditch is 1G feet wide—after which it has a depth of 48 yards from tho bastion on tlio west side, and about 14 yards on the east. About £2,500 worth of property belonging to Government hivs been erected on this pioco of land, and 3 years' arrears of rent are duo for occupation. A piece of reserved land, containing about 2 acres, fronting the Great South Road and Grey-street, and opposite the Queen's Redoubt. This reserve has a frontage of about 118 feet to the Great South Koad, by nearly a quarter milo in depth, and is bounded on two sides by the Creek. The frontage of this reservo will be sold together with Mr. M'Lean's Canteen, (72 feet by 1C feet,) which stands upon this allotment, close to tho bridge over tlio creek, fronting the Great South Road. Tlio Canteen is substantially built of slabs and sliingled, and cost over £100. This is a most desirablo site for business, as tho whole traffic must pass hero. Tho proprietor has been repeatedly nskod to let it for business purposes, and even for Btabling £2 a week was offered as rent for it. Allotment in Grey- street, 33 feet by a depth to
Whiora Creek. The allotments in the next block to Grey-street fronting the same road, realized at tlio last Bale of land at Pokeno 18s. per foot. A piece of reserved land, containing about an acre situated at the end of Ford-street, bounded by the Whiora Creek, and on which there is sufficient water power to drive a mill. Also The very valuable property adjoining the township. The Great South Boad intersects and divides this property throughout into 4 sections or small farms, viz.: — The Ist lot will be the Homestead, House containing 10 rooms, with outhouses, Stockyard, Piggericß, Fowl Houses, &c., and about 200 slabs sawn in the yard, and ready to put up a stable. The House is admirably adapted for a Bush Hotel, or House of Accommodation, The Lund lo bs hoM with the llouso comprises about 8 acres, -well fenccd, and commanding a frontage to the Great South Road of 100 yards. It is divided into Garden and Orchard, a neverfailing Creek running through it, and planted with choice Poach and other Fruit Trees. Lot 8 is a Triangular Paddock, fenced in, and
next to Homestead Garden: it contains about '20 acres, and h;is a frontage of a J mile to Great South Road, extending as far as tho junction of the Havelock and Great South Road. Lot 3 commences from the west side of Pokenostreet, and has a large frontage to tho Great South Road containing about 28 acres. Lot A has a largo frontage to the Groat South Read and Havelock-Road: it contains about 15 acres. Capitalists, look at the extent of frontage this pro- ' perty commands to the Great South Koad. In a few years the value will have increased 500 fold. This truly valuable proporty has now to bo sold under distressing circumstances, and- it is to Tie earnestly hoped that public competition will prevent 80 really a valuable property being sacrificed.' ' TERMS EASY, AT SALE.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 197, 30 June 1864, Page 2
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