SUPREME COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 109, 8 May 1903, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

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ALLEGED FORGERY. The jury found Williams not guilty, ahd he was discharged.

CROWN LANDS.

This month the Government have thrown open for occupation 199,107 acres of land in various parts of the colony.

In Auckland, the nine runs offered for sale by auction on May Ist comprised a total area of 120.479 acres, and on Monday last 74 acres of the Waingaroa parish were thrown open. On May 27 th 18,777 acres of land will be opened for sale or selection in the Piako and Rotorua districts. This land, which is about twelve miles from the Mamaku railway station, is in a district where the land has been in great demand for the past twelve months. Blocks of various sizes not less than 340 acres each are sold at an upset of from 10/6 to 15/0 an acre for cash. The sections are in some cases weighted with valuation of timber.

On the. same date 3275 acres in the Pirongia parish will be opened up in blocks varying in size from 231 acres to 400 acres, and prices from 11/ to 17/6 an acre. There is a dairy factory on the •main road about two miles from the eastern end of the block. Some 9978 acres of second-class surveyed land, in the Hapuakohe and Waitoa districts (Ohinemuri County) will be thrown open on the same day. It. will be sold in blocks of various sizes up to 444 acres, at prices from 13/ to 17/ an acre. Some of the Hapuakohe land is sold at 20/. The foregoing sections are situated from ten to twenty miles from Morrinsville railway station, the first seven miles by a fairly good dray road. A small steamer can be got up the Piako river to wdthin about two miles of section 22, Block V., and access can be gained from Ohinewai fairway station, twenty miles distant, of which some fourteen miles are fit for wheeled traffic. The block is well watered throughout, and is the upper portion of the great Piako swamp. Town sections in Mercer (2), Taupiri (10) and Pirongia East (7), will be open for sale on June 5, and two acres of Rotorua survey district^land (Block X.) will be also opened. ~ .„

In Taranaki 62 sections in the Spotswood settlement, containing a total area ,of 171 acres, will be open for selection on May 5, as workmen's homes (rents from £1 6/ to £I*9" a year), and also nine sections (131 acres) of ordinary farms in this settlement will be available on the same day at rentals from £17 to £65 14/4 a section per annum.