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Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 38, 21 August 1875, Page 3

MELBOURNE IN 1810. 1 (From the “ Sketchor”) Th following is an auctioneer’s announcement at that period : BALES BY AUCTION IS Melbourne likely to become a place of great importance, was a question put the other day by a Gentleman recently arrived from India, to an intelligent Townsman ? The answer was— My friend, three years ago the allotments on which we now stand were purchased for £4O each—three months since they were sold by public auction for TEN THOUSAND POUNDS. Six months ago the first merchant ship direct from Britain dropped anchor in Hobson’s Bay. At this moment. TWENTY BQU A RE-RIGGED. VESSELS, besides smaller crafts, are now riding in the Bay. Two years since the population of Melbourne did not exceed THREE HUNDRED, and now it numbers more than THREE THOUSAND. Looking to the surrounding country, who can write in sober praise. .Heboid the beautiful banks of the Yarro—the Saltwater River the country on the Moonee Moonee Ponds, possessing virgin soil of the be t qu Tty, capable of producing food for a numerous population, of which Melbourne must be the emporium. Is all this known in England ? inquired the Nabob. Our Townsman answered it was, to a great extent, but that when fuller accounts reached Britain of the vast capabilities of this splendid township, and of the back country for grazing Cattle and producing Wool, it woidd be impossible to fix limits to the steam of emigration which would undoubtly flow to Melbourne; By the last account from England seven ships were laid on in the London Docks, and six in the ports of Scotland, all direct for Port Phillip. These facts prove that an unprecedented demand for Building Sites must soon occur, and that—u Melbourne will shortly go out of town.” owing to the Yarro Yarro being salt b low the Falls; to the residen 'o of the Governor being up the river, and to the superior beauty of the locality, fashion now seems to fix her abode in that quarter, and the talent of a conjuror is not required to foretell that ere six months shall have expired, portions of Lands now denominated Suburbans will be almost part of our city, and thickly studded with the dwellings of the wealthy and respectable ; consequently, the rise of lands so situated must be prodigious. For the benefit of newly-arrived emigrants, for the consideration of the inhabitants of Melbourne generally. MR WILLIAMS Has deemed it advisable to make theseremarks, having been directed to submit on TO-MORROW, 31st December, 1839. SUBURBAN ALLOTMENT, No. 24 to Public Competition by Auction. This beautiful Allotment Mr Williams had fixed upon as being one which out of all the others he wished most to purchase, in order to erect for himself a private residence to retire to after the turmoil of business; but having for the first time at that period the conducting of the Government Sales, a false feeling of delicacy prevented him from becoming a bidder, but from his present knowledge of the real value of grounds situated as this is, he trusts the numerous competitors who will now enter into the lists for portions of it, may not,