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Sales by Aaction. THIS DAY. JUNCTION YARDS. For sale, at the Junction Yard?, To-day (Tutslay)/] rV/Os HEAD PRIME FAX CATTLE, £ y/ from Waikato 2 Large Working Oxen £00 Fat Sheep, from Wanganui and Taranaki 140 FatSbecpand Lambs, from Waikato 8 Prune Fat Veal Calves Also, Dairy Cows, Store Cattle, Calves, Yearllcgs, &C-, Jcc. 150 Store 9heep Fat and Store rigs. At 1 o'clock. HUNTER & NOLAN. TO-MORROW. PAPAKURA YARDS. The usaal Monthly Sala -will be held at the Papakura Yards oa Wednesday next, of about A A HEAD MIXED STORE V CATTLE. Lalry Cow 3, Calves, Yearlings, Sheep, Horses, &c. At 12 o'clock. HUNTER & NOLAN. THURSDAY, MARCH G. THE REMUERA YARDS. For Sale, on Thursday, March 6, "8 6\fk HEAP WELL - FATTED Xv v CATTLE. mostly from Waikato SSO Choice Wether?, from Poverty Bay £00 First-class "Wethers, from Wanscanui 300 Fat Ewe?, from Piako Dairy Cows, Cattle Fat and Store Pigs. ALFRED BUCKLAND. THURSDAY, MARCH G. BEMUEUA YARDS. For sale, on Thursday next, SOWING MACHINE. ALFRED BUCKLAND. FRIDAY, MARCH 7. THE H A Y M A R K E T. For sale,on Fiiday next, A POWERFUL GREY GELDING, 2 tons trial ALFRED BUCKLAND. TUESDAY, MARCH IS, 1579. VALUABLE ESTATE IN THE NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND. WAITANGI ESTATE. 9355 ACRES. The undersigned is instructed by Messrs. J. and W. Busby, who are dissolving partnership, to offer for sale by public auction, at the Haymarket, Qneenstreet, Auckland, cn Tuesday, March IS, at noon, if not previously sold, . mHEIR PROPERTY at the Bay of Islands, known as Waitangi, containing 9355 acres of land (more or less), held under grant frcm the Crown. This Estate is situated on the west end shore of the Bay of Islands, and is bounded and fenced by the sea, and the River "Waitangi, for a distance of 15 miles ; it contains a considerable extent of volcanic and scoria land of good quality, with about 200 acres of rich alluvial flats on the Waitangi, well adapted for growing lueerne ; the remainder consists of clay ridgea, with warm, well-sheltered valleys. The Homestead, consisting of a comfortable Cottage cl 22 rooms, with Oat-offices, is situated on the shore ol the Bay, in a position of unequalled beauty and salubrity; adjoining it there is about G acres Of Shrubbery and Orchard, the latter full of choice Fruit-trees, coming into full bearing, together with Kitchen Garden ; there is also Men's Cottage, and a largo building used as a Hay-barn and Woolshed. About 3CO acres adjoining have been laid down in grass lacd divided into paddocks, which have been used by the present owners as a depot for fat stock for the local market; the rest is worked as a open run, upoc which rough grasses—notably the Australian Poa Sroirnii—spreading rapidly. The property is at present les3 than half stocked. The purchaser will be required to take at a valuation about a thousand Sheep, Merinos, of good qaalHy, bred from the stock of the late Sir Donald McLean, a few Milking Cows, and about 80 Angora Goats ; these last are found to thrive admirably, and promise, in conjuction with cattle, to entirely displace *hcep on the run, where the grown wethers fatten to 70 lbs. and upwards. With Waitangi will be transferred the lease, having 20 years to run, of an adjoining block of Government . land. With the above the purchaser will have tte option of taking, at a price to be stated by the auctioneer on the day of sale, Mri. W. Busby's farm, at Ohaewai, consisting of first-class volcanic land, which has always be?n worked with "Waitangi, with about a thousand longwool and half-bred sheep. The Bay of Islands is gradually forcing itself into notice as a desirable place tc settle in. Its unrivalled climate is a great attraction to invalids. There are now, on an average, tan steamers monthly between the Bay and Auckland, and two between it and Sydney, and the completion to deep water of the railway from the Kawakawa Coal Mines, about to be undertaken, will bring' a large addition to the number of shipping visiting the port, while the extension of the same line to Hokianga, which cannot be long postponed, will make it the depot for the trade of the finest districts North of Auckland. ALFRED BUCKLAND. TUESDAY, MARCH 18. FARM AT PANMURE. The underlined has received instructions from Mr. John Dunn, who resides on,-and will show intending purchasers over, the property, to sell, on Tuesday, March 38,1579, at noon, THE ABOVE, consisting of 102 acres, all in cultivation and fenced. The Stock and Crop 3 can be taken at a valuation. 3 his is all good land, and, being situated within an hour's drive of Auckland, will always be valusb'.e, and Is being sold on account cf the failing health of the owner. ALFRED BUCKLAND. TJ\ HE HAYMA RKE T. FOR SALE, A CONSIGNMENT OF DOUBLE - FURROW PLOUGHS, From the Celebrated Manufacturers, Messrs. Rkjd am> Gkay, Dunedin. Pjuce Twenty Guineas. ALFRED BUCKLAND. 'P HE HAY MARKET SALE •*- FOR iTOOL, HIDES, BKINS, and TALLOW EACH TUESDAY, AT KOOX. ALFRED BUCKLAND.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5396, 4 March 1879, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5396, 4 March 1879, Page 4

Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5396, 4 March 1879, Page 4

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