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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 32, 26 February 1879, Page 3

SALE! RURAL, STJBIJEBAN, TOWN and VILLAGE LANDS, IN THE xi . Feilding Settlement, MANCHESTER BLOCK, ; ;v.-:V ■*" " ,■"■ •'/. '.'. .' MANAWATU. Messrs, Halcombe cfe Sherwill Have received instructions from the Pirectors of the Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation, to sell by Publio Auction, AT EEILDING, :pN WEDNESDAY, THE 26th MARCH, 1879. > 500 sections, - COMPRISING OVER TEN THOUSAND ACRES, Being Village, Town, Suburban and Rural Lands, m Sections varying from quarter acre to 600 acres, thus offering opportunities for profitable investment to tJ aU classes— to tradesmen, to laborers of every description, to farmers ■s^. wishing to make homes m this prosperous settlement, and especially y- to sawmillers and bushmen desirous ofoeaping a golden harvest -.*.*¥■ '' : .' ' „ f f °w the Wanganui .timber trade. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE SE7ERAL PROPERTIES WHICH • WILL BE OFFERED FOR SALE .—

I. 9000 acres Rural Land m 41 "'.fl Sections, varying from 50 to 500 - . 7 acres. This magnificent tract ,• of. country is THE PICK OF "THE MANCHESTER JBLOCE. It lies all m the Valley of the Oroua. It is very. . level; is very well watered jby . ' • several permanent creeks and by the Oroua River,, yet no part of :■ it is flooded, nor has it an acre of swamp. It lies within ;2\ miles of Feilding, and within two miles of the railway. Itiscpn- ' •■>- "iiected— by a good metalled road ■-•'"•; running right through it— with -..-•"'■. thib town of Feilding and ihe "new town 6i " Ashhurst," on' the Manawalu Gorge. Many of the Sections are covered : with very light' bush, chiefly tawa ; several oh the other hand are very . -.=.-.. heavily timbered- with a large proportion of totara, and are as fine sawmill sites as could be de- -.:■:-; sired. Except- with regard to the totara lands, purchasers will have the choice of taking up any of these lands lands on lease, ;;■■'' with right to, purchase, on ye'ry i' ■ijasy terms.. ; THe Corporation, portion pf The :f: Town of; Ashhurst, !■'•■ yompriping 190 acres,, divided rr into 34JS sections., is a sister town to Feilding and... Hal- ! <?° m be. ■ TJI9 town itself and the country round is being deajt wfrh ijot tVft "'^y °^ hana fide > settjeI'i.'"'. jaen^ road-making, m pije- ; " (^Be]^< : th.e.sam^' w.ay"aji Feilding i>s — ' an|k Ha^Qomliip ; irivestprs may, ; v?- : .-.» ?,; therefore,, confidently loolc for- ; ii ' 1 ' : ward' to a. sknijar. success to tha t • - \vhich, has,' attended those who • were.so.fprtijinajte»as to b$ tfee first 4 : investbrsc vp. th^ogß. towr^s. Ash. fcurst|is now, connected wifh Feild- ■'.-'"■' ing by a good m^ta) % led, road", rujn- ;;. \ ning direct through, the.Mancbe.s- --* 'v ''.-• terßlpck. jtia.pnvtihemaiu coaph -^ '} JowSi f rPm Palmerstpij, to Napier. v :>»;'. The main rajHray 0 lme. i rpm : ;WanganuvtoNapier x runs.^oujj{li T the heaft'of it, Th^Q.. traffic. from, a very large portion of the Man-. Chester Block, and from, nearly i: ; . thewhole of the Wanganai Har bor Board Endowment Block, must icon verge upon this isw,n, and meet the railway* at this «". : "." .I""]|j>oihfr ; '""and; >s in-additioh to the road lines already completed, ; other rpadg are iipv being rapidly . opened ip. several directions from •'* . * it; Ashhurst must be th"c central •» . - jdepot of an, .ehbrmous • timber trade, there being more totara m -- its neighborhood" than anywhere - ? else; m the Manawatu. This .X town is the centreLpf the operations of the Cprppratioh bow, and must continue to. be so for the next three or four years. , Independently of its im- " '-: pdriance as a convenient centre for^iwy ( laifg© area of country. .. : ,- Ash^tiirstjtvfrom its proximity to the GFpirge • and to the meeting of ,- the -waters of the. Pohangina and Manawatu Rivers is most interesting and picturesque, and, t.-i ;. !^,aß'jhas been frequently observed j - fey travellers m the Napier coach ; when passing through, " it seems' t " r- - specially designed by nature for '■ .the site of an important town." 111. 30 Suburban Sections of 4^;' Xji^alfiOljcOtte. -compriiiing 3^o . "acres^ithe^ Sections yaryirig m '„ size from 5. to 40 acres. This i .Block q£ Suburban Sections. has beenhithgrtp reserved from sale. It lies onithe boundary of the ■'-. r ; town^tself, withi^. half a mile of ; : the railway stijtipn, ai)d is. opened , - by a good metalled rQa ( d\ running '" ri^Kt through it.". Th^'^'hole ojf ; • this block i« co^er^di *■ with good timber either fpr. sawing, splitting or for firewood, an<^ as,: thfs i^ the nearest available, bijs.h tb ■ Rang^ti^ and' Wanganuij thb . . ' r itimber on thes? ;Seciipns has a special value independeiitly : of 1 . ; the land, wKicn, both for position \— -and 'quality, can hardly be BMr,---i ; paßsea>^ These woijlcl ' be an admirable investment fpj: any working man. c ' IYi 'The Corporation portion of th^ '*S!<smL of Cheltenham, comr ... prising, 89 Town ."anjd t'B Suburban" t .. ■Sectioijs. This if a reserved IBlpck on the Kinibolton read, on the bo^ndariesf iJf the.Ma,nchester and : Kiwitea Bipeds. It is about Smiles f,rpm Feilding- The Town Sections '. 'm&ify, front on the ! Kimbolton A <^|* ip . the • : piain road- ftc^ffi- Fielding ta the I interior, and id made and metalled ;■ f/om Fiel^n^|n^ugh this; town ? !