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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3123, 14 February 1871, Page 3

ADDITIONAL NOTICE. TVTO Eligible Tender having boen received JLI for the performance of a Monthly Mail Steam Service between Auckland, Tauranga, and Opotiki (described as "No. 3" in the advertisement dated 17th December, 1870) it is hereby notified that Tenders for the above service will be received afc the General Post Office, Wellington,, until Monday, 20th Feb., 1871. The conditions will be the same as thosa published in the advertisement above referred to. By order of the Postmaster-General, G. ELIOTT ELIOT r, Secretary. General Post Office, Wellington, January 251h, 1871. TENDERS are invitod for the erection of a Custom House and Transit Shed afc Wanganui, in the Province of Wellington. General conditions, specifications, and dvawings, may bo Been at the Offices of the Colonial Architect, Wellington; aud at the Custom House, Wanganui. Tenders will be received by the undersigned up to Noon, on Wednesday, tho first day of March next. Tbe lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted. W. H. CLAYTON, Colonial Architect. February Bth, 1871. SALE OF LAND IN THE RANGITIKEI • MANAWATU DISTRICT nnHE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OP WELLINGTON will sell by Public Auction, at the upset price of £1 per acre, a block of land of about 18,000 acres in the Manawatu District. The sale will take place at the Town Hall, Marton, Rangitikei, about the 27th FEBRUARY NEXT. Maps showing the position of the block in relation to the surrounding country, and giving a detailed plan of tho Bections offered for sale, will be visible at the Land Office on or after the 25th January. Lithographed copies may be procured by application at the Provincial Secretary's office, Wellington. The block now offered for Bale is the first instalment of a block of 220,000 acreß purchased in the year 1865 from the natives, and is situated on the south bank of the Rangitikei River, having a frontage of about 10 miles, and an average depth of three mileß. It 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 the 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 tho port of Wanganui, within five miles of the mouth of the Rangitikei River, which is accessible to sm all coasters, and a road is in course of formation right through the block to the harbor of the Manawatu River, which is accessible to vessels drawing from eight to ten feet of water. Notice of the exact date of sale will be duly advertised. A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE. Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Wellington, sth January, 1871. PUBLIO NOTICE. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, Ist February, 1871. NOTICE is hereby given, that about 17,800 acres of land, surveyed and subdivided . into sections, varying in size from 20 to 300 acres, and situate in the township of Carnarvon, in the Manawatu District, will bo put up for sale by public auction, at the Town Hall, Marton, in the Rangitikei District, on Monday, the 27th day of February instant, at elevea 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, ob payment of the sum of 2s 6d, viz :-— Crown Lands Office, Wellington W. Lyon, stationer, Wellington London's Hotel, Pahautanui Scott's, Rangitikei Lewers', Rangitikei Beavan's Para wan vi Resident Magistrate's Court, Marton Taylor & Watt's, Wanganui Grey's Store, Foxton Cox's, Featherston Hirschberg's, Greytown Bannister's, Masterton Whishaw's, Caßtle Point And are on view at the Crown Lands Offices afc Wellington Auckland Napier Taranaki Nelson Canterbury Otago Westland Blenheim Information can be obtained on the ground respecting any of tbe sections on application at the camps of Messrs Flyger and Drummond, Government Surveyors. JOS. a. HOLDSWORTH, Commissioner of Crown Landß. JAND R. SHEERIN beg to inform the • inhabitants of the Taita and its vicinity that they commenced business as BUTCHERS on the Ist November, at the premises adjoining the Albion Hetel ; and hope by etrie. attention, and supplying only the best of meat, to merit a share of publio patronago. R RAWSON, DENTIST, Bolton street^ Terrace, next to Dr Kemp. Mr Rawson is at present on a visit to Nelson. PORIRUA RACES. NOTIOE,—The above RACES will take place on the 17th MARCH, 1871, and .. that Mr E. Walker ia appointed to collect Subscriptions towards the funds for carrying out tho Races. H.BROWN, ' Secretary to the Committee.