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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 54, 5 February 1885, Page 4

IHE WELLINGTON AND MANAWATU BAILWAY COMPANY, (Limited). LAID SAME. mHIS COMPANY will sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, m the HALL of the ATHENAEUM, City of WELLINGTON, on THURSDAY, 19th" FEBRUARY, 1885, At 11 o'clock a.m. — THE WHOLE OF THEIR .SECTIONS TS THE FITZHEE3EKT BLOCKS, Together with the TOWNSHIP OF LINTON AND STJBUKBAN SECTIONS Adjacent thereto on the Line of the WELLINGTON AND MANAWATU RAILWAY. The area to be sold m the Fitzherbert Blocks comprises from 18,000 to 19,000 Acres of Achuctjltural and pastoral lands of First class Quality, and is conveniently situated for access from the settled portions of the blocks. Each section has a frontage to a road connected with the district roads, which lead to the Railway Station at Linton, seven and a half miles from Palmerston North. The Township of Linton and Suburbs comprise about five hundred and fifty acres, and is the site of the station, four miles from the junction of the Company's railway with the Foxton-Taran-aki line. The main road through the Fitzhorbert Block leads to the station and the township and will be the terminus for the traffic of the district. The Upset Prices for Pastoral Lands will range from 20s to 30s per Acre, and for Agricultural Lands from 35s to 60s per acre. The aim of the Company being to sell their lands and to settle population upon the same, with a view to create traffic, the upset prices have been fixed at the above low rates m order to place their purchase within the reach of all classes. The sections will be put up consecutively as to the position on the map, without regard to running numbers, so that those purchasers desirous of acquiring several sections, to make a large block, can do so. The terms of sale will be as follows : — 12£ per cent, cash deposit on the fall of the hammer 12£ per cent, m one month from the date of sale, and the remaining 75 per cent, by acceptances falling due m three, six, and nine months from the date of sale, with interest added at 8 per cent, per annum, The Title will be under the Land Transfer Act, and special arrangements have been made with the Company's Solicitor by which purchasers can obtain their Transfers at a great reduction upon ordinary charges. Plans of the Lands and Schedules of upset prices can be seen at every Post Office m the colony, and may be obtained on application at the Company's offices, Wellington and Palmerston North, and at the office of this paper. Full information how to inspect the sections will be furnished at the offices of the Company, Palmerston North, where arrangements can be made by intending purchasers, on any day between the Ist and 16th February, to have the guidance of competent persons to any section shown for sale on the plans. JAMES WALLACE, Secretary Wellington Manawatu Railway Company (Limited). T. KENNEDY MACDONALD & CO., Auctioneers to the Company, Wellington. THE Public Trustee is charged with the Administration of the Estates of all persons who may die intestate : — (1.) Where no relatives are known, oi who reside out of New Zealand. (2.) Where the persons entitled to Administration neglects to apply therefor. Next of Irin, m forwarding claims for the residue, or part thereof, should enclose proof of kinship. Claims for supplies, services, &c, should be forwarded to the Agent of the Public Trustee for inquiry and certificate, ho will then transmit them to the Public Trust Office for payment. The Public Trustee may be nominated. Executor under tho Will of a Testator, or Trustee under Marriage or other settlement. P>esent Trustees Executors, or Administrators may relieve themselves of responsibility by transferring trusts, it approved, to the Public Trustee. The State gives an absolute guarantee against loss of funds, by fraud or dishonesty. ' For further particulars apply to J. HEUBEPvT HANKTNS, Solicitor, Palmerston North . R. C. HAMETtTON, Public Trustee. Wellington, August 22, 1884.