LAND SALE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2045, 13 May 1890, Page 3

LAND SALE.

Messrs Grade, Maclean and Co, offered for sale in Tiiuaru last Saturday, the landed.property of the late Mr Andrew Grant, The Springfield Estate of 442 acres was put up but elicited no bid and it was then offered in 3091 pns. The fiVat lot, vp acres or stubble, Was started at £l6 and passed in at£l ß IQs. The seeded acres, started at £l6 and ran up to £22, at which it was knocked down to Mr genry Tfce thi f d Ip't vfas the homeatead, §1 aerqs with »\\ the farm building Th t s was started at £24, bid up to £27 10a and was then passed, Three other lotaof 60 PT, and 10© acres were started at £ls and passed in at £lB, £l6, and £l7 IQ B . ’ The Wash dyke farm of 196 acres with cottage hung fire, but at length was started at £l2* run up to £ls and then withdrawn. An odd paddock of 14 acres, next to the nashdyko saleyards, 3 acres of which are leased to the saleyards company at £26 a year—a good accommodation paddock with water-race through it—was started at £2O and passed in at £24. No ofj.-r was made for 1200 acres of gracing land just over the Orari opposite Mr I McDonald’s homestead, The goodwill of ia High School reserve near Milford, 147

acres, rent 10s 6d «n acre, lease 12 years to run, after a long wait was started at £SO, run up to £l4O and then withdrawn. B'or 100 acres of plantation at the Hinds, near the railway station, offers from- 20s up to 35a an acre were, made, and declined. Mr Maclean said he could not compliment those present on their bidding ; perhaps they would show more anxiety to secure some of the properties when they came to him later on to buy priyately. The last lot of this estate was the Lilybank station* on the Godley (above Lake Tekapo) formerly Mr Sibbald’s 70,000 acres of which 20,000 are well grassed, rent £220 a yesr, tenure 26 years, together with 20 acres of freehold and 13.500 sheep. The; first bid was £SOOO, and the price was run up by a very limited number of bidders by £lCo’s to £6500, at which figure Mr W. Pringle became the purchaser.