LAND SALE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 720, 9 March 1853, Page 2

LAND SALE.

A sale of Crown Lands took place yesterday with results highly satisfactory as indicating the augmenting value of allotments, and therefore necessarily the increase of agricultural enterprise in the Province of Auckland. This was particularly evident in the spirited competition for lots at the Village of Onehunga, where, as in the other Pensioner Settlements, the industry and frugality of the Pensioners—(who are daily manifesting more clearly how important an acquisition they are to the class of steady settlers) —has enabled them to add to. their own acres additional properly, as well as to stock and cultivate their little farms with a measure of success fully equalling that realized by their neighbours generally. Of thirty-two village allotments included in the Proclamation for yesterdays auction, only one remained unsold. The aggregate upset price of the thirty-two allotments purchased was 3141.175. 6d., while the sum obtained for them amounted to 455/. 17s. Od. Several of them were bought by Pensioners, and for most of them Pensioners were animated bidders, although in some instances the " longer purses" of competitors who had a less intimate interest in the particular locality.enabled them to oat-bKI them. Indeed there can be little doubt that the value of land about Onehunga wjll be rapidly and considerably increased by the results of the accurate survey of the Manakau harbour now in progress by H.M.S. Pandora, from the scientific and laborious observations of whose Commander and officers Ibis country has already derived so much benefit. One lot near the village, the upset price of which was 37/. 175., was knocked down at 58/. 10s. The other lots in the list for the day included one in the suburbs of Auckland", not sold; one at Panmure, sold at the upset price ; seven at East Tamaki, of which only one was sold; twelve Opaheke Farms, of which two were withdrawn, three sold at the respective upset prices of 224/., 193/. los., and 11/., and one sold at 9/., the upset price being Sf. 10s. ;—and, finally, three small farms at of w hicti only one was sold, —at the upset price of 24/., being 8/. per acre. The total proceeds of this day's sale amounted to one thousand and fifteen pounds.