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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3161, 23 March 1889, Page 2

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New Zealand Rifle Association! • V Blesiieim, March M. ; Championship.—Parslow, • Boss; 604; Parkea, 491; •Taylor, I 489; Foster, 487. Saturday.Tlie weather is fine but diill, : The ' >'* are: - Parslow, Auckland, £4B; / Parkea, Blenheim, £36 10s; Boss, Napier, LSI; £j|v, Taranaki, LBO

Blenheim Flooded- ; Blenheim, Saturday. ; •The rain yesterday has caused the rivers to rise and a portion of the town is flooded. Iu some of the streets where itis lying.a little low,' the water is knee deep, and down.by the Government offices it is almost impossible to cross the street except in vehicles.

Farewell, \ jj|\ : '■ Inveroaboill, March ZsT Sir W. Jervois passed through , Inveroargill by special, train this, afternoou, on his way, to the Bluff to ' loia the Melbourne steamer. During ' the few minutes at the station here the Mayor and several members of the Council presented an address, to . : which his Excellency made a courteous reply. The ■G, Battery,. " stationed at a point on the Bluff line, fired a Balute as .Sir William passed in the traiu. There was no demonstration at tbe.Bluff,. Fatal Accident.

Nelson, March 22, :• John Tarrnn t whose legs were crashed while lyine in his hut" at Marina by a falling'tree, and laid imdiscovered for five days, what . after being admitted tWlitf' hospital, but mortification set in this morning, and'amputation of both limbs was resorted to.. He died, however, shortly after the operation. < . ' Frozen Meat Company. Chrisichubcu, March At the- annual meeting'of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company to-day, a dividend of 7 per cent was declared, and Ll5B was carried forward to the new account, Messrs John Grigg, J. T. J/ord, and John Deans wore elected Directors.

of and The N,Z; Times , of to-day reports that the sevonth sale by auction of the valuable lands of the Wellington and Mauawatu Railway Company took" place in Messrs T, Kennedy Macdonaid and Co's Exchange Hall yesterday at 2 pm, Long prior to the advertised hour of commencing the bMkoub ball was crowded with wife interested id-the sale. The midday train from the North brought in a large contingent of buyers, while the farming districts of Canterbury and the minors of the West Coast of the Middle Island were to the front with representatives. A somewhat uuusual - feature of the sale wdß the prosence of a number of the fair sex, 'wh£', bid vigorously for various BectioMk < Tbo interest manifested' by the dreds of country settlers present was a strong proof of the earnest desire to obtain land for personal settlement, \ which lias been remarked by the Government for some time past, Mr McDonald, after mounting tbo rostrum, atid prior totakingJSiiy bids, roferred to a number of matters in connection with the lands of the Company. He stated that since he had first been favored with, instructions to dispose of tho country properties of the Company, some 50l|[) acres had been sold, real* £BO,OOO. In no single instance bad any man who had purobased and ' paid his deposit made default, and settlement was proceeding right ■ along the railway line, and some distance back from it in the most vigorous and satisfactory manner. So rauoh was this tho case that the increase in the local traOic alone during the past year amounted to over 25 percent,. To show the rapid settlement in the townships, he instanced Paraparauma, wliioh he sold at the close of last June. A large number of houses had already been erected, a scboolhouse was in existence attended by 40 children, over SUO acres in the vicinity was in course of clearing, and'a flasmill w'asT* about to bo built. He claimed for the Company that they wero entitled to the best thanks of the Colony for the example they had shown inAs liberal terms offered and the faeP' ties given for settlement in fixing the interest at so low a rate as 5 per cent per annum. In reply to ques-. tions he explained that the .littledifficulties which had existed obtaining the, Crown grants from the Government were at an end, and the Company were now in a position to' give immediate 'transfers .for every section sold, Mr Macdonald's observations were evidently received with muoh favour, and were several times heartily applauded. The sale occupied two hours, and tho bidding - was exceedingly spirited, the oom- : petition for the first two eeotions offered at'Ohau /being mostimarked,'. resulting in their bringing £6" per acre oach, Tho whole of the agricultural sections were sold, and a . few of the pastoral seotions, the , remainder oi the latter being with- • drawn for private sale, It is not generally known that the Company aro_ compelled under the terms of their contract with the Government - to Bubmit every acre surveyed bitt them to sale by public auctlro, aii,cFv the Company as a matter of form" have to oflfer, as in this sale, large areas of land only suitable for extensive pastoral occupation, and whioh thoy never oxpect to soil at auction, it being found often advisable to rearrange the sectional boundaries and deal privately with buyers. • The sale of the township of Olmu was very successful, and formed a marked 1 contrast to the sale of- the township" of Levin by the Government on Thursday, which only realised some ' LllO. The Directors of the Company and Mr Macdonald are to bo congratulated, on the continued success whioh has attended those important Bales. The following are the results"

Otaki: ' Total, 2295 acres lr lip, realising an avetago of • . .. v.. £2 6s per icre ~, £6879 ,7 .'.4 Township of Ojiau, ' * ; '.i Total 16 town sections re. » ■ . alising an average of £35 5s per aero or £2lB 2 6 Total—l 7, suburban sec-r • • tiona,. containing 77a. » • :lr 22p, realising an , average of £8 16s 6d par aero ... £690 51Q • SUMMARY. . ;' Rural lnnd, 2P9sslr llp,- £6279 lovrnahip of pbau __ ..., 988 8 T 4 W toW bt :