LAND SALE.

Evening Star, Issue 4259, 20 October 1876, Page 2

LAND SALE.

- in'the sale to-day is the ProvtaciaKipuncil ball of-4he new township of Vauxhall. The IsttendaTlce was large aud the bidding in several eases vnry spirited, high prices being obtained for the choicest sections. * Before the sale commenced a (rood many questions, isaay of them pat in a spirit of banter, were asked of the auctioneer, who presumed that the Grown Lands -Department, which give a sufficiently good title: anyhow he would proceeds The land wji notCrown*ranted v tt)'the Saperinten. dent, but was ordinary OrownSLand. Mr G.W. Elliot called attention to the neglect of the which pro Tides thatiStreets in townships shall be 99ft. wide, but no further remark was made on that head. The auctioneer stated that the Government were not responsible let the afcertisemtat stating that a; railway station would beplacwnt Craig* leith, the name given to the towns? ip/'fcut Mr Elliot, as a director of tbajPeninanla -and Ocean Beach Company, intimated that tifieffflreetory would put one there, if they detained a? efts for it. The following aretheyestftinot^iki •. Sections; Acreage! .TJpsetJ Price, »' Pqft&aser. .

JThe total sum realised was £3,6*4/ Only one ol the coutagres at Kensington, was sold, and that at 4s an acre, the purchaser bettg & Wm.

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