DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF NEW ZEALAND. 



townships of Fielding and Halcombe, on the Manchester block, which was 

 1875 under the auspices of a number of English capitalists, presided over 

 of Manchester, and with the 

 Hon. Colonel Fielding as 

 their negotiating agent. It 

 is an excellent farming 

 country, and the abundance 

 of timber which it possesses 

 is also being rapidly turned 

 to marketable account. A 

 few miles farther on lies 

 Marton, named after the 

 birth-place of Captain Cook, 

 and wearing an appearance 

 of prosperity. Nearly the 

 whole of the fertile plain in 

 which it sits has been laid 

 off in square-mile blocks, 

 subdivided into farms of 

 eighty acres each, whereon 

 agricultural operations are 

 conducted with great spirit 

 and enterprise. Marton is 

 the centre of the fertile 

 Rangitikei District, and no 

 finer rustic settlement is to 

 be met with on the route 

 northward. It is a pleasant 

 drive of six miles thence to 

 the township of Bulls, or 

 Clifton, on the Rangitikei 

 River, and the eastern hori- 

 zon, bounded by the Tara- 

 rau and Ruahine Ranges, 

 forms a very agreeable pic- 

 ture, while to the northward 

 is very clearly discernible 

 the snow-clad peak of the 

 lofty Ruapehu glistening in 

 the sunlight. From Mar- 

 ton to Turakina the train 

 passes through undulating 

 open country with occasional 

 low-lying hills, until it 



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