A HINT TO LAND BOOMERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)

A HINT TO LAND BOOMERS.

Ho*r iHidUfiirt Bonder Advertised Etta

Country House for Sale.

Some years -ago when 'Robert Bonner, of the New York "Ledger," became worn out "with the fatigue of hard work, he "purchased a place in the country. He had not been there a great while when the following appeared in the "Ledger" under the heading, " A country seat for sale where there is'fever and ague."

" Thereby offer to sell my country seat at West Morrisania, near Melrose Station, where I have lived for the past three summers, but do not think I could live much longer. I have heard that people looking for a place to purchase could never find one where they have chills ; arid \'f ever. They always have it about a mile or a mile and a half or two miles away, but -never right there at the place that is for Sale. Now, I' dffer forTsale a cufioßity—something rare— •flh'e precise, exact spot where the fever and agueie. I warrant it to be-there. Three of my children have it, my gardener has it, my groom baa the premonitory symptoms, and I have a sufficient inkling-of it myself. Atiy'dbctorwifchalarge family, withaapeciflc for fever and ague, would find it a most eligible situation. The neighboUrhddd is full of the disease, and if he could keep it p,ut of his own family it would give him a reputation which would assure his future. Besides the fever arid ague the estate consists 6'fafine double house with all modern and improvements, Such.as hot arid cold water, furnace, range, etc. About two-acres of land", a pretty fair barn, arid some excellent box stalls for: horses. -Ifc is a really beautiful place. The grounds are handsomely .laid out and ooyered with shrubbery and trees of the choicest jfcmd. The trees not only afford a delightful shade,'buta nice harbour for mosquitoes. "I bought the place to please ■my wife, and shall sell'it £q please my whole family. Terms cash. lam afraid my. •security on it would get fever and ague arid 'become fchaky. "Those wishing to^pur"chaae -wfll please apply immediately. I, want to get away from it as fast as Dexter can carry me. '' Robert Bonubk. " 'Ledger * Office, No.-90, Beckhara-street, September ISth, 1867. "KS.—The town authorities have begun jnake ailterations in the streets -adjoinirig, and if they drain ,the place as well as they ido the -pockets of the landholders, it may 'become healthy." Thi'B-aclvert)iseme\itcreated quitea.sensation at. the. time, and was copied in the daily pa'pett} ttll' over -the country.