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Timaru Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2553, 27 November 1882, Page 3

T.W.Corbett GERALDINE. TW. CORBETT & CO., • AUCTIONEERS, Laud and Estate Agents, Vaxttatobs akd Commission Agents, Will HOLD FORTNIGHTLY SALES at their new Yards, Geraldine. Sales Attended m any part of the District. £7000 to Lend on good Freehold Security. Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. (Christchurch Section.) DUNEDIN AGRICULTURAL SHOW, 22nd AND 23hd NOVEMBER ; AND RACES, NOVEMBER 30th AND DECEMBER 2xd, 1882. CHEAP EXCURSION TO DUNEDIN. EXCURSION TICKETS to Dunedin and back, AVAILABLE FOR RETURN up to and including the sth December, will bo issued from Timaru, Temuka, and Waimato Stations for tho Express Train on the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 28th, 29th, 30th November and Ist December. Fares— First Class, 20s ; Second Class, 15s. Tickets will also be issued from Temuka and Timaru at the above fares for a Special Night Train which will leave Christchurch for Dunedin at 8.10 p.m. on the 29th November, and be due to leave Tcmuka at 12.15 a.m. and Timaru at 1.0 a.m., arriving at Doucdin at 8 a.m. on the3otb. A Return Night Train will leave Dunedin for Christchurch at 8 p.m. on the 2nd December, stopping at Temuka and Timaru. Passengers holding Excursion Tickets may break the journey at any stopping station, continuing it subsequently. FREDK. BACK, Traffic Manager. District Traffic Manager's Office, Christ.-hurch, Nov. 17th, 1882. 11-20 3163 NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. HURUNUI-WAITAKI RAILWAY. (Branch Line.) ALBURY TO FAIRLIE CREEK AND BURKES PASS. PERMANENT WAY AND STATIONS CONTRACT, No. 1. WRITTEN TENDERS wfll be received at this office until Noon on Monday, the 4th December, for the above Contract. They are to bo marked on the outside, " Tender for Permanent Way and Stations Contract, No 1," and addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Dunedin. Telegraphic Tenders similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented at any telegraph office by Noon of the same date, provided that written tenders are lodged at any District or Resident Engineer's Office by the same hour. Drawings, specifications, and general con* ditions may be seen at this Office and at the Public Works Office, Christchurch, and at the Post-office, Timaru. The lowest or any Tonder not necessarily accepted. By command. W. N. BLAIR, Engineer-in-charge, Middle Island. Public Works Office, Dunedm, November 18th, 1882. 11-20 3164 SALE OF ABOUT 106,003 ACRES OB CROWN LANDS IN THE KOBTH ISLAND. SALE of about 106,000 Acres of Crown Lands m the North Island, divided into Town Village Settlement, Agricultural Deferred Payments, Pastoral Deferred Payments and Cash Payment Sections, as under : — On the 4th December, 1882, 2110 Acres of Agricultural Land m the Waimata and other blocks on tho East Coast will be open for application, on Deferred Payments, at Auckland and Gisborno, at prices from £1 to £1 10s per Acre. And on the 7th December, 5589 Acres will be disposed of at Gisborno, by Public Auction, on Pastoral Deferred Payments, at an upset price of £1 per Acre. At the nmo lime and place, 58,000 Acres of Rural Land will be offered for Cash, at upset prices ranging from 5s to £1 10s per Acre. On the 12th December, 3434 Acres of superior Agricultural Land m the Parihaka Block, divided into Rural Allotments, on Deferred Payments, and Village Settlement Allotments, at prices ranging from £l 10s to £25 per Acre, will bo open for application at New Plymouth, Patea andHawera. And on tho 15th December, 3450 Acres will be offered for Cash, at New Plymouth, at prices ranging from £1 to £4 per Acre. On tho 18th December, 2918 Acres of Agricultural Land situate m the Wairoa and Momahaki Districts will be open for application, on Deferred Payments, at Patea and Hawera, at prices ranging from £1 to £4 10s per Acre. And on the 20th December, thore will bo offered by Public Auction, at Patea, ten sections of forfeited DefeiTod-Payment Land, also tho unsold portion of tho Township of Richardson, and 19,235 Acres of Rural Bush, Land, for Cash, at upset prices ranging from £1 to £6 per Aero. On the 21et December, 4537 Acres of Agricultural Deferred-Payment Land, being portion of the Wanfianui Harbor Boo'rd Endowment, near Feilding, and the Tokomaru Block, near Tfanganui, will be open for applicatiou, at Wanganui and Wellington, at prices ranging from £1 10s per Acre upwards. And on the 22nd December, there will be offered at Public Auction, at Wanganui, 6818 Acres iv the above-named blocks, for Cash, at upset prices ranging from £1 5s per acre upwards. Full particulars of the above lauds are published m the New Zealand Gazette No. 93 of the Bth November, 1882, copies of which can be obtained at any Land Office m the colony. Plans aud Posters will be exhibited at all Railway Stations and Post-offices throughout the colony, and can be obtained at any of the Land Offices. General Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 13lh November, 1882. 11-20 3157 %%& $£&' tZsi BOROUGH OF TIMARU. ELECTION NOTICE. ANNUAL ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE TIMARU HIGH SCHOOL BOARD. I HEREBY Give Notice that the following PERSONS have been NOMINATED as Candidates for Election as Members of the Timaru High School Board, viz. — Messrs James Bruce Robert Alexander Chisuolni Henry William Harper John Jackson Frederic LeCren . James Francis Lovcgrore Thsmos CrowtherPlanto James Hutchison Sutler. Aad that a POLL for the Election of FOUR of the abovo CANDIDATES will bo held at the Town Hall, Timaru, on WEDNESDAY, tho 29th day of November, 1882, commencing at 0 o'clock a.m. and closing at 6 o'clock pan. EDWIN HY. LOUGH, Returning Officer, Borough of Timarn. Timaru, 20th Nov., 1882. 11-21 317 X