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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3131, 23 February 1871, Page 4

Government Notices. /TENDERS 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, Wangawui. J Tenders will be received by tho undersigned mp to Noon, on Wednesday, tho first day of March next. .. The lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted. & Colonial Architect. February Bth, 1871. fTIENDERS are invited for the erection of a JL Dwelling House for the Resident Magistrate at Maketu, in the province of Auckland. General conditions, specifications, and drawings may be seen at the offices of the Colonial Architect, Wellington, at the Government Offices in Auckland, Tauranga, and Napier. Tenders will be received by the undersigned, up to noon on Wednesday, tho 15 th of March next. Tiie lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. W. H. CLAYTON, Colonial Architect. February 15, 1871. npENDEBS are invited for the erection of JL additions to the Telegraph Stores in Wellington. General Conditions, Specifica^ tions, and Drawings may bo seen. at the Offices of the Colonial Architect, Wellington. Tenders will be received 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. I I SALE OF LAND [IS THE RANGITIKEI -MANAWATU DISTRICT mHB PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF WELLINGTON will cell by Public Auc lion, at the upset price of £1 per acre, a block of land of about 18,000 acres in the Manawatu District. The salo will take place at tho Town Hall, Marton, Rangitikei, about the 27th FEBBUARY NEXT. Maps showing the position of tho block in relation to the surrounding country, and giving a detailed plan of the sections offered for Bale, 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 acres purchased in the year 1865 from tho natives, and ie situated on the south bank of the Rangitikei Biver, 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 bush, and is of the finest description of agricultural land. The Bangitikei District, from which the Manawatu block is separated only by the river (fordable at all points), contains a population of 3000 eouls, 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 Bale is within 30 miles of tho port of "Wanganui, within five miles of the mouth of the Rangitikei River, which is accessible to email 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 aale 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 acres of land, surveyed and subdivided into sections, varying in size from 20 to 300 acree.and situate in the township of Carnarvon, in tho Manawatu District, will be put up for galo by public auction, at the Town Hall, Maston, in the Rangitikei District, on Monday, the 2iih day of February instant, at eleven o'clock in thi?j forenoon. . A Lithographed Plan and Schedule of Contents, and upset price of each section can be obtained at the undermentioned places, on payment of tho sum of 2a 6d, viz : — Crown Lands Office, Wellington W. IJyon, stationer, Wellington London's Hotel, Pahautauui Scott'e, Rangitikei Lowers', Rangitikei Bearan's Parawanui Resident Magistrate's Court, Marton Taylor & Watt's, Wanganui Grey's Store, Foxton Cox'b, Feathereton Hirec'n berg's, Grey town Banuister's, Maeterton Whishaw'a, Castle Point And are on view at the Crown Lands Offices at Wellington Auckland Napier Tarunaki 3S«lson * Canterbury Otago Westland Blenheim Information can be obtained on the ground WBpeetiug any of tho sections on application at the camps of Messrs Flyger and Drummond, Government Surveyor. JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH, Commissioner of Crown Lands.