LAND SALE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11590, 22 May 1903, Page 6

LAND SALE.

At Asliburton yeeterdav- Mr Brown, auctioneer for the National ; Mo*t»||| gage and Agency C 0. ,; offered' for publio auction the property known -Ardainine," a block of 672 acre*, for wfafcfc|i| Mr Tticharde originally gave £7 15s-»j|| acre (barely the price of a present day flooKMl ram). He bad worked tfcie same claw 'of land and nude it pay baadeomely. ftnst bid was £12 10a an acre. Inaid* ofsp ten minutes the bids rose quickly from £13;?!! to £15. Then there was a momentarys-M pause, but £15 2s 6d ms offered, vid then £16. The latter amount -wee- finally creased to £17 Sβ, at which price it wi|j|i knocked down to Mr H. J. Harriwn. The,;ij land has been well tilled, and there many substantial improvements. \'<%| Wfihaii is known as "The Beach Farm," of 3-jfg 1200 acres, was then offered and pawed *Vfs £3 an acre, but an. adjacent block of 106,/;|3 acres, known as "A-lbert'a Farm," fwondl® a purchaser, at £10 an acre, in the.<pcr*oii:,,|| of Mr John Dolan. . ,^| As *howing the bona fide value,of Aeh-\v| i burton plains land, ■ib may b© fctoted:>s 4writee our correspondent) tiiab the chaeers of Mr Bichaids's property in amx'M neighbours. Mr Richards "ha* large block of land in the. Wainiato dii*''J* trict. A sale of horeee, cheep) etc.,. followed the sale of land, \rhli T»pondingly *atiefactory re»ult«. ' *»3m