THE LAND.

Evening Star, Issue 3489, 29 April 1874, Page 3

THE LAND.

Mr D. Macrorie, on behalf of the Provincial Government, Held a sale in the Albion Eooms, on Monday, of Crown lands situate in the Waipahee and Glenkenich districts. The land, of which we happen to possess some personal knowledge, is of a i half arable, half pastoral description, and is contained within the boundaries of what is known as the Conical Hill Station. The following are the sections which were sold, together with the prices which they realised’ In Waipahee district, block 8, section 6 comprising 102 a 33p, brought LI 5s per acre • section 7, 61a 3r 6p, same price per acre * section 8, 112 a Ir, L2 7s per asre : section 9, 142 alr 2p, L2 os; section 10, 128 a3r 15p, L2s 6s per acre; section 19 295 a 2r 34p, LI 9s per acre : section 25, 249 alr Bp, LI 10s; section 26, 278 aOr 3p, L2 Is per acre; and section 27, 53a 3r 24p, realised L2 4a per acre. lu the Ulenich district, section 5, block 10 125 a2r 38p, went at L2 lls per acre. In block 12 of the same district, section 5, 112 a lr 24p, brought L 3 7s per acre ; section 6, HOa 2r 25p, L 3 Us per acre ; and section 7, 98a 2r 28p, L 3 5a per acre. There was a i fair attendance of buyers, and the bidding : was tolerably brisk,' but the whole of the land offered for sale, with the exception of : section 27 in the Waipahee block, fell to Mr J, K, Cameron, who, we believe,, bought on : behalf of the Otago dnd Southland Land Investment Company, the owners of the station. The total amount realised was L 4,100, the number of the acres being 1,871, :thua giving an average of about 44s per ; acre.

Ihe number of applications received at the Land Office on Monday last for land in the deferred payment block on Mr run was 95. The office was literally besieged during the entire day, Mr Howard confessing

that it was the hardest day’s work he had £ on ® many years. It will be observed by the list, which appears in our advertizing columns, that many of the applications were u*- j 6 Bame section, and that about onethird of the land thrown open has yet to be applied for. It should be stated that a n i® m ' 3er °f the applicants came from considerable distances, some being settlers in the northern parts of Otago. The brisk competition at the Land Office, ° n -"londay, for the dozen surveyed sections on the Rock and Pillar block, at Hyde, shows how necessary it is that land should be more freely opened for bona fide appliestions on the deferred payment system. For these paltry twelve sections we have applicants from Dunedin and the Shag Valley, ihere is hardly one section but what will have to be balloted for.—‘Mount Ida Chronicle.’