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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3129, 21 February 1871, Page 4

Government Notices. /BLENDERS are invited for the erection of JL a Custom House and Transit Shed at Wanganui, in the Province of Wellington. General conditions, specifications, and drawings, may bo seen at the Offices of the Colonial Architect, Wellington ; and at the Custom House, Wanganui. Tenders will be received by tho undersigned «p to Noon, on Wednesday, tho first day of March next. Tho lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted. W. H. CLAYTON, Colonial Architect. February Bth, 1871. npENDERS are iuvited for the erection of a JL Dwelling House for tho Resident Magistrate at Maketu, in the province of Auckland. General conditions, specifications, and drawings may bo seen at the offices of the Colonial Architect, Wellington, at the Government Offices in Auckland, Tnuranga, and Napier. Tenders will bo received by the undersigned, up to noon on Wcdaesday, tho 15th of March next. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. W. H. CLAYTON, Colonial Architect. February 15, 1871. rpENDERS aro invited for tho erection of JL additions to the Telegraph Stores in Wellington. General Conditions, Specifics tiona, and Drawings may be &een at the Offices of the Colonial Architect, Wellington. Tenders will be reaeived by the undersigned, up to noon on MONDAY, the twenty-seventh day of FEBRUARY. The lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted. W. H. CLAYTON, Colonial Architect;. SALE OF LAND IN THE EANGITIKEI- MANAWATU DISTRICT FTIHE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF WELLINGTON will sell by Public Auo tion, at the upset price of £1 per acre, a block of land of about 18,000 acrea 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 the aectiona offered for sale, will be visible at the Land Office on or after the 25th January. Lithographed copies may bo procured by application at the Provincial Secretary's office, Wellington. The block now offered for sale 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 miles. It is intersected by numerous streams, contains considerable patches of available buah, and is of the finest description of agricultural land. The Rangitikei District, from which the Manawatu block is separated only by tho 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 small coasters, and a road is in course of formation right through tho 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 a&le will be duly advertised. A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE. Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Wellington, sth January, 1871. PUBLIC NOTICE. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, Ist February, 1871. NOTICE is hereby given, that about 17,800 ncreß of land, surveyed and subdivided into spofcion?, varying in size from 20 to 300 acres,and situute in the township of Carnarvon, in the Manawatu District, will be put up for sale by public auction, at tho Town Hall, Marton, in the Rangitikei District, on Mondny, the 27th day of February instant, at 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 Lands Office, Wellington W. Lyon, stationer, Wellington London's Hotel, Pahautauui Scott's, Rangitikei Lowers', Eangitikei^ Beavan's Parawanui Resident Magistrate's Court, Marton Taylor & Watt's, Wanganui Grey's Store, Foxton Cox's, Fealhevston Hirschberg's, Greytown Bannister's, Masterton Whiahuw's, Cnstle Point Aad are on view at the Crown Lands Offices at Wellington | Auckland Napier Taranaki Nolson Canterbury Otago Wesfland Blenheim « Information can be obtained on the ground respecting any of the sections on application at the campa of Messrs Flyger and Drummond, Government Surveyors. JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH, Commissioner of Crown Lands.