LAND SETTLEMENT IN WAIMATE COUNTY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1350, 24 September 1886, Page 2

LAND SETTLEMENT IN WAIMATE COUNTY.

i mid all the cry of dull tinea and firmly * locked lands, the Waimate Times learnt with much satiafactun that land settlement in Waimate County ia by no means a dead letter. In the month of-sTnly laat the Australian Land Company laid oat on lease or purchase extensive blocks of the Psreem Estate lying within thfa County, and on the south side of the Paroora river. The farms range in extent up to 200 acres, and we understand that nearly all the ground thrown open haa already been settled upon. Mr J»ffjoato baa taken three sections, which of themselves tit np the respectable amount of 430 acres. The blocks are let cn lease of 12 years at 9s and 10s per acre, with option of purchase fn 4 years’ time. A good* feature of it in favor of settlors ia that all Improvements are compensated for st the expiry of lease. The land is of first-class quality, and Is mostly. town in wheat and oatr, which st the present time are looking uncommonly well. The County Council may require to devote some extra labor on rosds in that rising neighbourhood, bnt the additional Income derived therefrom and the successful fntnre of the place may warrants cheerful attention in the direction spoken of.