PROPOSED HUNDRED AT BEAUMONT. "Wednesday, 26th May.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 69, 5 June 1869, Page 3

PROPOSED HUNDRED AT BEAUMONT. "Wednesday, 26th May.

John Cormack,Blue Spur, examined. He knew run No. 137 (Maclean's). Considered 3000 acres of the 10,000 referred to as good agricultural land, and the remainder good pastoral ; and he believed the whole of that 3000 acres would be purchased within three years, and that it would realise more than £1 an acre. He did not think, from what he had heard, that the land there was payably auriferous. The main trunk line goes through the proposed Hundred. He further testified to the fact of people having left the district because they could not get land to purchase, and thought that were the land declared into Hundred it would be more readily bought, as the leasing system was attended, with annoyance, and the compensation pi'ovided under the Goldfields Act seldom represented the amount of capital laid out on the land: The boundary of the proposed Hundred was not more than a mile and a half from the Blue #pur workings. David Evans, of Evans' Flat, examined. He knew tb apportion of run No. 137 proposed to be declared a Hundred. Considered there were 5000 acres of agricultural land in it, and the whole of it, in his opinion, would be purchased within three yeasj, and for some of it there would be considerable competition. Knew of several families who would purchase land in it with the view of settlement. He had to sell all his cattle, as the runholder on whose boundary he resided would not permit them to remain on his run. Other parties had to sell their stock for a similar reason. He believed that in the event of 5000 acres being declared into a Hundred on run No. 123 (banks of Tuapeka River), the same proportion of land would-be sold.