WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5,18:4. IMPORTANT AUCTION SALE, At CO3IO Villa, Alexandra. VALUABLE MINING PROPERTY. FARM, ORCHARDS, VINEYARDS. DWELLING-HOUSE & FURNITURE. HORSES AND CATTLE. TO MINERS, FARMERS, SPECULATORS, AND OTHERS. T C. CfIAPPLE Ims receive! in--0 • strucUons from Thomas Oliver, Esq., to fSELL by PUBLIC AUCTION, at Como \ ilia, Alexaiuha, on Wednesday, August 5, at II o’clock pi 1 no airily, the following VALUABLE PROPERTIES. Lot 1. The Property known as Como Villa, on which is erected a substantial six-roomed Home, hut It ol stone, with Hie following Out-buildings, viz., Daily, Storeroom, Stable, Coach-house, Stockyard. Smithy, and Piggeries. 'The ground adjacent to the house is stocked with 1,000 fruit trees, in full bearing, and 1,000 fruit and forest trees, various sods, 'the remainder of the ground consists of about sixty acres of good laud, laid down in English glasses and securely fenced. Lot 2 Consists of The Grange Farm, situate about a mile fiom Alexandra, and comprises fifty-five acres, the whole of which is securely fenced, laid down in English grasses,and well watered. A two-roomed Stone House is built on the farm ; also a Stride and Pain. Lot 3 Consists of a five-roomed wood and iron House. Lot 4 Stone Stock-yard and Piggeries, one stack of Oats, one ditto Oaten Hay, and one ditto of Clover Hay, a four-roomed Stone House, and Garden. Three Quiet Dairy Cows Three Fat Steers Six Fat Pigs and lot of Poultry wo Buggy Horses Buggy and Harness Express Waggon and Harness Saddle and Lhidlo Stack of Clo\ *(T Hay Fifty bushels Wheat and Barley Five tons Potatoes Four dozen empty Bigs Blacksmith’s Bellows, Anvil, and Tools Carpenters’ Tools Plough 14 arrows Roller Garden Holler Tip Dray Two Spring Carts Set of Spring-cart Harness Cart and Loading Harness Grindstone Corn Crusher Mould Plough Water Wheel Forty Sluice Boxes 150 Sheets Galvanized Iron Fanning Implements and Garden Tools 130-Gallon Iron Boiler Household Furniture and Cooking Stove Ho. G Cooking Stove, Lot 5. There will also he offered for sale TWELVE WATERRACES, viz. ; Three Races taking their rise in Blackman’s Gully, registered to cany 12 heads of water Six Races taking their rise in Conroy’s Gully, registered to carry 12 heads of water Three Races taking their rise in Earnscleugh River, registered to carry 7 heads of water. Also, Give-twelfth Share in the Manuhcrikia ’Water Race. Noth.— In drawing (ho attention of the public to the above sale, the Auctioneer has to state that the title to Como Villa and The Grange Farm is held under the mn-holders, Messrs. Strode and Fraser, who have given in writing their consent to purchase. This very desirable property may therefore be converted into a freehold at any time. The water-races are too well known to require any comment. The only reason the owner lias tor disposing of the above - mentioned valuable properties is his removal to Dunedin, where he has purchased a business that will require Ids constant attention. Buyers arc requested to he early on the ground, as the lots to be offered exceed 500 in number.
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Dunstan Times, Volume 641, Issue 641, 31 July 1874, Page 3
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