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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVII, Issue 3116, 6 February 1871, Page 4

SALE OF LAND IN THB EANGITIKEI - MANAWATU DISTRICT npHE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF WELLINGTON will sell by Public Auo t4on, at the upset price of £1 per acre, a block of land of about 18,000 acres in tho Manawatu District. The sale will tako place at the Town Hall, Marton, Rangitikei, about the 27th FEBRUARY NEXT. Maps showing the position of tho block in relation to the surrounding country, and giving a detailed plan of tho sections offered for sale, will be visible at the Land Office on or after tho 25th January. Lithographed copies may bo procured by application at the Provincial Secretary's oflice, Wellington. The block now offered for sale is the first instalment of a block of 220,000 acres purchased in tho year 1865 from tlie natives, and is situated on tho south bank of the Rangitikei River, having a frontage of about 10 miles, and an average depth of three miles. Ifc is intersected by numerous streams, contains considerable patches of available bush, and is of the finest description of agricultural land. The Rangitikei District, from which tho Manawatu block is separated only by the river (fordable at all points), contains a population of 3000 souls, and has been in the possession and occupation of freehold farmers for nearly 20 years, and is traversed in every direction by good metalled roads. The block offered for sale is within 30 miles of the port of Wanganui, within five miles of the mouth of the Rangitikei River, which is accessible to small coasters, and a road is in course of formation right through the block to the harbor of the Manawatu River, whicb is ' accessible to vessels drawing from eight to ten feet of wator. Notice of the exact date of _alq will bo duly advertised. A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE. Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Wellington, sth January, 18*71. PUBLIC NOTICE. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, Ist February, 1871. NOTICE .8 hereby given, that about 17,800 acres of land, surveyed and subdivided into sections, varying in size from 20 to 300 acrcs,and situate in the township of Carnarvon, in the Manawatu District, will be put up for sale by public auction, at the Town .Hall, Marton^in the Rangitikei District, on Monday, the 27th day of February instant, afc eleven o'clock in the forenoon. A Lithographed Plan and Schedule of Contents, and upset price of each section can be obtained at the undermentioned places, on payment of the sum of 2s 6d, viz : — ' Crown Lande Oflice, Wellington W. Lyon, stationer, Wellington London's Hotel, Pahautanui Scott'a, Rangitikei Lewers', Rangitikei Beavan's Parawanui Resident Magistrate's Court, Marton Taylor k Watt's, Wanganui Grey's Store, Foxton Cos.'b, Featherston Hirschberg's, Greytown ■ Bannister's, Maßterton Whishaw's, Castle Point And are on view at the Crown Lands Offices at Wellington Auokland Napier Taranaki Nelson Canterbury Otago Westland Blenheim Information can be ohtained on the ground respecting any of the sections on application afc the camps of Messrs Flyger and Drummond, Government Surveyors. JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH, Commissioner of Crown Lands. ADDITIONAL NOTICE. TVTO Eligible Tender having been received ll for the performance of a Monthly Mail Steam Service between Auckland, Tau rauga, and Opotiki (described as " No. 3 " in the advertisement dated 17th December, 1870) ifc is hereby notified thafc Tenders for the above service will be received at fche General Post Office, Wellington, until Monday, 20th Feb., 1871. The conditions will be the same a3 those published in the advertisement above referred to. By order of tho Postmaster-General, G. ELIOTT ELIOTr, Secretary. General Post Office, Wellington, January 25th, 1871. npHE Undersigned are CASH Purchasers of Wool, Flax, Tallow, and othor Produce ; or wiU make advances on same consigned to their agents in London. JOHNSTON k CO. October 29, 1869. WOOL AND TALLOW. THE undersigned is prepared to purchase oradvance on wool aud tallow, either in arge or small parcels. ' EDWARD PEARCE. THE undersigned are prepared to form estimates, plans and specifications for the erection of mills and machinery for the manufacture of flax. REES & GIBSON, Rangitikei Steam Flax Mills. T W I L LIA MS'S BOOT AND SHOE WAREHOUSE, Willis Strbbt. "NOTICE. ~ A WEIGH BRIDGE is constructed close to Thorndon Market, and we hopo the public will avail themselves of this benefit fot weighing Hay, Straw, & c . A correct weight will be given in due form. Stabling connected, at very reduced prices. Produce bought and sold by EBDEN. /CHAMPION'S VI N E G AR. Agent's for Wellington : LEVIN k CO.