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Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 115, 9 February 1881, Page 4

material. The works £re kept going night and day, employing some seventy people.Glasgow machines working on. the Jfurra Would suggest, tiiat we are going to have an hon age as well as a golden age m Victoria. Tbe company turns out some, lifty tons per week of ttiia super!) iron. What it may do m auotuer decade, the 'Victorian Sybil: only knows. For pquatters^ the Compuny's iiuralea, straining pillurs, and standards must be invaluable. Light, strung, and durable, enormous truuts of land can oe en« cl.jseii with gru.it and mot effectively for sheep and cattle. The Lilviiule marble is being most artistically adapted to everyday uses by William lVuin aucl Co., slate uncl flag merchants, Emerald-hill. We suw ,sotne extremely good designs m marble mantelpieces, m which this beautiful Victorian product is admirably utilised ; also some beautifully sculptured ones, executed m Carrara marble from Italian quarries, all displaying just proportions, delicate carving, classic ornamentation, and mas-terly ese-ulion; also marble tiling for sumptuous mansions such ix% are vow constructed m Victoria. We no longer dream of dwelling m marble halls, but have realised them to the fuil. That attractive material " enamelled slate " is also another of Mr Train's " successes !" And- even wood enamelled is now extensively manufactured by him, and applied to mantelpieces and various other uses. An enumelled- wood mantelpiece looks fo well and under certain ciivutustam-es is so undiscernible from the more expensive kind that we scarcely like to mention the absurdly low cost of such u-eful productions as those turned out by Mr Train. Other Australian colonies purchase largely t hese productions as well as this m which they are being now produced. Tbo opening of the great organ came off on New Year's Eve. Ol' th« three morning papers, two condemn its quality ef tone as harsh and disappointing m the extreme, ' find report that after the first two or three air* the audience left, their seats m larj>e numbers. The other— and that, the lending one — sHys the tone was rich, and massive, and the reed and iluie sop-) of a rich and brilliant quality and most gratifying fulr.ess of tone, nnd the effect to the listeners Very fin«. Wuich is the Anunias ? .Nevertheless, at the conclusion of the concert, commissioners, eecretHry, organbuilder, and prominent, members of the staff adjourned to the large hnll attached to the onice* and toasted each other on " the successful completion of one of the largest organs m the world !" QOROUGH OP PALMERSTON D NORTH. PUBLIC NOTICE. THROUGH TRAFFIC has been STOPPED m PARK ROAD, during construction of the same. By order, E. J". ARMSTRONG, Borough Engineer. Palmerston North. January 21, 1881. ' '£•^5 \ft.*li» c"^. WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT. During the month of FEBRUARY 29,700 ACRES of First-class AGHiICULTURA.LBUSH LAND, situate m the Forty-mile Bush and m the Manawatu District, will be offered for SALE on Deferred Payments and for Cash. In the Pahiatua Block, Forty-mile Bush, 25 Sections can be applied for on deferred payments, at the Public Hall, Mastertpn, and at the Land Office, Wellington, on Tuesday, the Bth February! On Thursday, the 10th of February, 61 Sections will be offered at public auction m the Public Hall, Masterton. On Monday, February the 21st, 29 Sections, m the Kairanga and Fitzherbert Blocks, can be applied for on deferred payments at the Town Hall, Palmerston, and at the Land Office, Wellington. On Thursday, February 24th, at 11 o'clock, a.m., 80 Sections, m the Kairanga and Fitzberbert Blocks, will be offered for sale by public auction, m the Town Hall, Palmerston. Teems : Deferred Payments. — When the came Section is applied for by two or more persons, the Section will be put up to .auction between the applicants at 10 o'clock, a.m., at Masterton Public Ha, l, on Thursday, the 10th February, for the Forty-mile Bush Sections, and at Palmerston on Thursday,. February 24th, at 10 a.m., for the Kairanga and Fitzherbert Sections. One-twentieth of the. pnrchasemouey. to be paid with the application, the balance m half-yearly instalraents extending over ten years. , Cash Payments. — 25 per cent, payable on the fall of the hammer, the balance m one month. Maps, Schedules of Sections, and upset price can be seen at the office of this pai>m\ and will be forwarded •from tbe Grown Londs Office, Wellington, on application. Au officer of the Survey Staff will le m the neighbourhood one week I r.iviou'g to each sale to point out the Sectious to intending purchasers. Note. — These Sections include a large extent of level and undulating land, well watered, rich, deep soil, ?nd most of the Sections have a frontage to main or district roads. JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, January 18tb, 1881.