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New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5065, 9 February 1878, Page 8

Sales by Auction. THURSDAY. MARCH 14. ' THOSE VALUABLE QUEENSLAND STATION PROPERTIES, KKOWN AS •1» WARRA WARRA fD.4RC.i?ro Dottss>, contAfninjr. in addition to the leased Uuds, about 20,500 Acres Freehold Estate, two miles from Railway and Telegraph Stations. 2. N"UKIN"K*TDA "{Wkst Worbtos). containing about 16,506 Acres Freehold, about thirty miles from Murphy's Creek Railway Station. 3. KORHANBY (West Mohcton), containing about 22,000 A erej eighteen miles from Ipswich, and two miles from the proposed Railway station at Harrlsville. WITH ALL STOCK AND IMPROVEMEXTS THEREON. I GEORGE HARRIS & CO. Have been favoured with instructions from the Managing Executor in the Estate of the late George Thorn, to sell by public auction, &t their Rooms, 180, QuAen-strert, Brisbane, on Thursday, March 14* at 11 o'clock, rpHE FOLLOWING MAGNIFICENT JL QUEENSLAND STATION PKOPESTIE3, viz. 1 No. I.— WASRA WARRA, In the lettled district of Darling Down*, Adjoining the well-known pastoral property of Mtsxrs. Bell & Sons, Jimbour, and being of the same description of .country, viz.:— Plain?,' lightly timbered box, and myall forest, abundantly watered by £hd/.. CO X n A MIXE RIVER, WILKIE'S CREEK, CRKEK, and numerous VERY LARGE LAGOONS. The grasses are of the best fattening description, while salt bush and cotton bush abound. _ THE RAILWAY runs through the property, and the Bead Station i% oaly TNto Miles from Warm Railway and Telegraph. Station*, and 2S miles from Dalby, th-i chief town of this important paitoral district Trains run daily to and from the Station and Brisbane, thijs placing the market and shipping port within ten hours' communication of the Estate. There are about 26,500 acres of picked Freehold Country, &s well as the le&ses of the following Runs, viz. WARRA WARRA KOGAN BRAEMAR, which sire an aiditfon&l 131 square miles of Grazing Country, all WELL WATERED, and mail ly BOX, MYALL, AXD SALTBUSII. Tba IjirRovEMKXTS are in every way sufficient and Substantial, and may be enumerated as follows :— Situate of 610 acrrs, and on the ed;e SPLENDID LAGOON, teeming with vrild fowl and fish, stands the HEAD STATION,: comprising a large, roomy. co.i.fortible rcsidance of nine apartments, besides kitchen and serrants' rooms, bath-room (water laid on), orch&rd, Weil stocked with fruit trees, vines. «fcc.,- vegetable garden, suMes, ooach-houjo, !oa c e toxes, aud all other otlices necessary to tre full comfort of the resHenf; ! Also, comfortable r verseer's ciittage, largi store and meathouse. blacksmith's shop, mea's engine-house, sheds, &.C., X CAPITAL W 7 OOLSHED is just within sight of the house, and has pens and stan-As for eighteen shearers ; Tack aad pinion press, weighing machines and'all requisites for the wool season; <hearer>* huts. th»*epyanl?, &c.,&c. ; and is enclosed in a small piridcck. Therd are also paling fenc d cnUivation aud c*lf paddocSs, large and convenieut siockyarcs, horse and milkiog yarik the' wash pool, fitted with necessary plant; including 8 b.p. portable engine, centrifugal pnmi», lirgc tanks, spouts, soaks, &c., ivx, is pl»ccd on a NKVKR-FAILI.'G LAGOON" of beautiful soft water, acknowledged to be the PEST ON Til:: DAUI ISG DOWNS for and is about three-quarters of a mile from the woolshcd. The Paddocks-ire s-»fe and coavenforitly situated, and the Out-stitioa% incluling overseers' houses, yards, &c., ic., at KOGAN aud KRAKMAR, are all in good order. The Kcncir.g. which covers s; 34 is of a most suV*t\r.tiil character, a!i«l nearly :»ll now With the a:aiioa as a bore described wi 1 be sold THE STOCK, consisting of abo&t 1*2,000 Fixe-Woolled Merino Siieep, mixed ag*s an I cexes, :«nj a Milker's Hen! of ahout 30 head of quiet, veil-bred, and broken i-attl**. There ar-j also about 40 Horses, snUHe' and 'draught, Bullock T'ams, Horse Teams. , Cic., and a f.-ill aad sutfi-i'.mt supply of station implements for the working of the place. It i> scarcely necessary to siy that the stocking ii vary ligh:, ana that the capibilities of the Station are up to at the veiy least 40,0:0 SHEEP. la completing this short description of a magnificent property, the Auctioneers would simply point out the fact that, as a inreatment, there is -NOT ITS EQUAL ON THE DARLING DOWNS for sale. The convenient situation both as to market and shipping port, the permanent wattr supply and fattening cjpa' ilitie?. together with tbereaJJy beautiful site ard choice agrlcultunl soil, render it g~-od all round as a Fa'.tenirg Jstat'on, Stud farm, or Fat Stock Depot. The soiliswell adapted frr the growth of Incerne and'otber green and there cm be little coubt that the s;:pplr alone gives this property an, advantage over all iu neishbouw, while the result of the »*• LATE GOVERNMENT SALE OF JfMBOUR , . J<AN'D3 (adjoining the-Warr* paddocks), so eagerly contestedfor, i 3 a sure indication of the future of thi* valuable propetty. L'nimproved lands were bought at the above sale at'£l 10s per acre. L-V The foregoing-Station will be sold in ONE* LOT at per acre freehold, with the leases atid : all improvements given in. The Sheep, Milking Herd, Horses, Teams. Store?, Worldri? flint. ic., to ba taken by the purchaser at , a valuation in the usual manner. No. 2.— NUKINESDA, containing about 3C,526 Acres Freehold Land —the pick of the well-known ESKDALE R.C7N—is situated in West on the evatern slope of the Main Kaage, distant from Ipswich about 6) miles, and only 30 mile? from Murphy's Creek Railway Station, having a Telrgraph Station quite handy. It U a most droplet property, - consisting of sp'end d Cittle-fitt-?ning couatry, undulating flits, and ironbark ridges, WELL and PERMANENTLY WATERED ' by Maronglil, Maria, and Nukinenda -.&eek*, bcsld.es several Icgoons, ntver known, to..bo' dry.' The whole of the country is : / FENCED IN ! _with Wire and Top-rail Fence?, and divided into Four Paddccks. THE IMPKOVEMEN'TS are good,, substantial, and quite up to the press g. requirement? of Ih*rp!ve; *Tccy consist of a comfortable Residence, built in a mo^t-picturesque sad salubrious spot, and all necessary • Btockvards. Men's lints, &5., &c * , TtiF. STOCK consists of about 1500vHJlAD OP WELL-BRED CATTLE, and the usual number of Horses, Terms, Station Implements, die., &c. T>e country is unsurpassed for its fattening cafufe, biJittfts, and a coosiderable portion being rich, agricultural sofl, Lucerie 'paddocks,'for topping up, can'be established with a certaioty of succeia.. A Line of Railway is *now being surreyed to run 'through the dUtdot. ~ 43T NTJKINEND A will be sold at per Acre with all improvements. .TheCatUe, Hotfes, Stores, \Torking Plant, &c., to be taken by the purchaser at a valuation in tne usual manner. ........ ' . No. 3.— • ' • • - «;• NORMANBY, • '• situate in'fhe ofefon District, con-' i ?i'ts or about 32,000 Acres, of most Valuable . Freehold Land, , ' ALli 'FENCED'.'IN AND SUBDIVIDED : i INTO PADDOCKS ' • coirrenirmtly a£d'pernucyatly watejed'by, : ! .MARP.OOL.422A. MOUNT WALKEU, AND * • . W a RRILU CREAKS (the latter being a running, stream, and to wliich the frontage of 14 'miles); besides several smaller Creeks'and' fine Lagoons. • " As an Agricultural 'and' Grazing EstaCe this fine properly;cannot be mrpassed, nor can it, for-its-extent and qtxality,. be: equalled in the colony. IT CREAM uF WEST MORKTO v, and is ALL good. Over two-tMr.Js r * th/> is ava lable for 'purposcrf. i:nl 'the whole Affords the. ricbcst pasturage. WHEAT HAS BEEv GROIVN Y IN" THE DI>TniCT, and Ihrf Urge crops md GlfOW V .ON Til K ESTATE, ;»re evjder.ee? a* to it<? capabilities. The rich cpen p f ains on~the Uank 1 * of the creeks oflVr access to the t lougli, and iirigation can -be employed to *n extent. Ibo soil is of an : extremely rich chocolate loam, intermixed with ima'l limestone nodules, aud easily worked in all seasons. • As Country it is magnificent, and only 'Veqn!re»-to-b4 fn>peete_i to be fully approved. ' j Whether for «.heep- or- cattle, the lightly-timbered i ironfcarki.rjdgfcV.'applertree, fi-its, * C <l rich alluvial pi gra&>«ol.'a£rpfd the richest pasturage. : . Situa*«d > .a> is, only, some IS miles from Tpjwiffy to )riiich plac«a xnilwiy ja alrr'-ady surveyed, and-o«i9s .«>' Acar.;*to £iw> capital., renders it most va|uab\e as Stock Depot, while in the hands of iPfC]i|4tor jt„cou'il. be turned to most profitable account by up into" } ' SUITABLY SIZED FARMS • 'to be let or sold. , • , IfcIPi<OVFIMEIiT3 Mo everything that can b*s desired, and comprise KKA.UTIF JU.Y-SiTaA.XED BESIDEXCE, with garden,. orchard, kitchen,, etablo, co&ch-house, C v i * «uperinte:idoat's dwelling, woolshcd. washpool (with steam engine and spouts), ample stockyards, mens/ huts, stabling, &c„ &C, n«xV 10 A i^ uz^ R T ,i nir ° necessary out~&tations. this Splen id Property will be sold about 14,0-K) Weli-brod Fine Wool'ed sheep, iplxed ages and s*ie3. r. . , . . . About 15Q0 Mixed Cfcttls/ $0 Hsr.d of Hordes, including Drauglit Eu'tire, .| Lrood J£;ircs, - Jitock aud Craught COIL 3 aud j I &c,,.^:c'' Also all'.ihe'Teams, "VVork- { acd/Implemenis. —* , ' ITo 4 " merits' o£, . NORMANBY STATION,- the auctioneers feel to be quite unnecessary ; oil local residents know it as one of the moit