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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 10, Issue 602, 18 April 1866, Page 1

GOVERNMENT LAND SALE. PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON. IMPORTANT SALE OF LAND IN THE MANAWATU DISTRICT. TOWNSHIP, ‘S UTS UR BAN, AND. SMALL FARM ALLOTMENTS, TIMBERED SECTIONS, &c. - 9* IT IS NOTIFIED for public information that an important Auction sale will shortly be held in Wellington of upwards of 5,000 acres, consisting of : Town Lots in the Township of Manawatu, situate at Te Awa Hou, the present landing-place for goods, about three miles from the mouth of the River. These sections will vary from a quarter acre to on§ acre. A few Town: Lots in the Townsilii of Moutoa, about 12 miles above the Manawatu Township, and also on the River. SUBURBAN AND SMALL FARM ALLOTMENTS, in blocks varying from 2 to 10C acres. These blocks are adjacent ;to the two Townships, and are also laid off or either side of the road now in progress t< connect the Moutoa with the Manawati Township, and on branch lines of road. Timber Sections, —(as many as car be surveyed will be offered for sale) — about 18 miles above Moutoa, laid off or either side of a road now in progress tc give access through the bush to the navigable portion of the River. These sections will vary from 100 to 320 acres and several of them will have Rivei frontages. A Township will be laid off at t suitable place on this line of road, whicl will be a connecting line between the Rangitilcei and the river navigation through the open and bush country oi the Oroua and Upper Manawatu. The River Manawatu has a depth 01 water on the bar varying from 9 to IS feet, and is navigable for vessels of thaf draught for nearly 40 miles (by the River) from the mouth. The timbered sections to be offered for sale form the extreme end of a rich flat block of forest land of great extent (about 60,000 acres) a considerable portion of which is covered with the finest totara timber. The road through these sections opens up the extensive plains between the Rangitikei and the Manawatu to the liver, which is the natural and only outlet to that district. This road will also form part of a line of inland road from Wellington to Wanganui. Cobb & Co.’s coaches run twice a week between Wellington and Manawatu, and every information can be obtained from the Survey Office at Manawatu by intending purchasers. As soon as possible, before the sale, a map with full particulars of the sections of land for sale will also be published. A future notice will be issued giving the day on which this land will be offered for sale, and full particulars as to upset price, size of lots, &c., will be published. A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 4th January, 1866. NOTIC E. ~ THE Partnership hitherto subsisting between the undersigned J. Watkins and T. Suart as builders and contractors, has been dissolved by mutual consent. Parties indebted to the firm will please pay the amounts of such debts to J. Watkins, by whom the business will in future be carriedlon. JOSEPH WATKINS THOMAS SUART ’ Witness to signatures, John W. Liddell Robert Bett Dated this 2nd March,§lß66. NOTICE TO SQUATTERS, MER- * CHANTS, AND FARMERS. THE undersigned are buyers of Sheep skins, Bullocks’ Hides, Greasy W 00l and Rough Fat, etc. RICHARDS AND GIBSON, Fellmongers and Wool Seourcrs, Kaikokopu Creek, Wanganui. July sth, 1865. TOWN BOARD. . NOTICE is hereby given, that the road along the river side, from the bridge by Mr. Soulby’s house to the Town Boundary above the Rev. Mr. Nicholls, paddock, is closed to carts, horses, and cattle, during the formation and metalling of the roadway and that any persons found riding or driving on it will be liable to prosecution. WILLIAM KELLS, Chairman of Town Board. Town Board Office, Wanganui, February 17, 1866. ' tc.