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AUCTIONS. H. MATSON AND CO. H. MATBON asd CO. FARMS FOR SALE. SPECIALLY SELECTED PROPERTIES. CANTERBURY FARMS. FOR PRIVATE SALE. 2232 ACRES 9933 18 Milss from Christchurch, close Rail, School, and Market*. CAPABLE OF CARRYING 3000 EWES. 753 ACRES RICH HEAVY LAND. 1130 ACRES LIGHT LAND. rriWO GOOD HOMESTEADS—One 7-room- ■*- ed new and up-to-date. One 9 rooms in fair state preservation, splendid stables, pigstyes, shearing eheds, machine house, dip, water, and. in fact, complete and up-to-date in every respect. Present crops given in are: — 50 Acres Tuscan Wheat 120 Acres Garton Oate 24 Acres Partridge Peas 6 Acres Mangels aad Swedes 1000 Head Cabbage and Fotatoee 60 Acres Rape 250 Acres ploughed for Turnipe. PRICE CROPS IN £25.000. Delivery Ist January, 1908. TERMS—I-3rd cwh, balance for a term of 7 years 5 per cent. ONE of the FINEST HOMES and FARMS in New Zealand. First time in Market for 40 years. H. MATSON and CO., 6393 Sole Agents. ACRES. 1500 ACRES. A PENINSULA PROPERTY. FINEST BLOCK OF■LAND OFFERING IN THE MARKET. Comprising cloee upon 1500 acres, conveniently subdivided; a good Homestead, Woolshed and all necessary Outbuildings. At present carrying 1900 ewes, 600 hoggets, and 120 head of cattle, and no shortage of feed. This is one of the cheapest properties in New Zealand. *Look at the carrying capacity, with little or no provision made for winter feed. The owner avers half of theee lambs for the coming season will go off the property mud-fat from their mothers. The place is close to railway and yards. Price, £13 per acre. A keen buyer, inclined to inspect, will bej shown over the property, but no information will be given as to locality or owner upon enquiries. ACRES. KKA ACRES. PRICE ONLY £3 PER ACRE. Absolutely the cheapest block of sheep country in Canterbury, all ploughable, will carry 450 ewes, and grow as good turnips as will be found on £15 an acre land; 10 acres in oats. 'Situated handy to three «a!cyarda, and within 1) miles of school, post office, and township. The buildings include good whare, and stables and sheds. Tlw terms are exceptional. Anyone requiring a piece of sweet sheep country can be guided by us. This is a huge bargain, and will sell itself. Note price, £3 par acre. ACRES AQ ACRES Absolutely the cheapest Dairy and Graxing Farm in the Province. Located handy to town. A magnificent piooe of land. . Will grow anything- in the way of crops, and as a dairy 'farm is unequalled. - Splendid Dwellinghcuee 6 rooms, cbwtheds, pizgeries, cowbaila, implement shed. - Special reaeons for relling. A rare chance to pick up a good farm cheap. Within 1| hours' drive of Chrirtchurch. Note the low price. £33 per acre. ACRES 400 ACRBS - A First-clau Sheep and Agricultural farm divided into 13 paddocks, water in each. Will winter 600 ewes and fvtten all the lambs, grows grand crops of oate and turnips, and is one of the cbeapeet farms w« are at preeent handling. Fir»t-claM House 7 room*, rtables. yards, imp!ement-slied, etc.', eto. Adjacent to school, and 2 miles from saJeyardi. £0 per acre. ACRES Oβ ACRES. Capital Little Farm, handy to town, firstclaes 4-roomed New House, dairy, scullery, stables, all heavy loamy soil, grows anything. , At present 10 acres in oate. 2 acres in peas, 2 acres in potatoes, splendid crop. Fenced all good, and abundantly watered. Easy tei-ms. £1200. ACRES J690 ACRES. A MAGNIFICENT SHEEP AND CROPPING FARM. One hundred and thirty acres o! which is heavy loamy land,' will grow 80 bushels wheat, balance rweet sheep country, New House 7 rooms, and offices, Rtables. *heepyarde, granary, "woolsihed, men's whare, two miles from rail, school, apd post office. A erajid farm, comprizing heavy and light land. £5 per acre. ACRES gOOO ACEES AN EXCEEDINGLY ATTRACTIVE PROPERTY. Six thousand acres are ploughable, 8000 acres have been ploughed and sown down in the best of English grasses, another 2000 acres have been surface sown, 1000 cores is still in scrub, manuka, apd fern. The remain ing- 2000 acres was originally bush country, of which 95 acres is in strong grass. This cleftring was felied 16 years ago, and is fattening bullocks at the prefect time, so that it must be very good country to hold gram so lone. • The whole place is ritsg fonced and subdivided irAo convenient riw*pproof paddocke, and all fences are in tip top order. The land is well adapted for cutting up into dairy farms, as the estate,, is a long narrow shaped one. and aa a road runs right through it small holdings could be laid out on either eide of the road. At the present time fully 1200 cowe could -be carried on the improved portion. At present the place is carrying 3500 «iheep and 1100 bullocks, and is considerably understocked, ryegrass being a foot 'high all over the place. About SCO acres in swede turnips. Buildings include a fin* Homestead in a glorious situation. House has 10 rooms (buiM 2 years), large woolehed capable of carrying 20.000 sheep (shearing done by machinery), ntables and outbuildings are thoroughly up-to-date. There ate also two other houses on the estate 5 and 6 rooms respectively. • This property is the cheapest this? we have dropped on for a long time, and for a speculator to cut up and re-cell ft would show a huge profit. Present owner has refused £18 per acre for two of the front b'ock.s, as he wishes to cell aa a whole. The soil is a good loam on top of clay subsoil, and is particularly _ adapted for all kinds of cropping either grain or root*. NOTE THE PRICE PER ACRE. £* 10s. Term*.—One-third caab, balance 7 years 4} per cent. Location, 4 miles from township. Price, «4 10e per acre. NOTE —Land Catalogues on aipslicatioa, or posted Free to any address. H. MATSON ana CO, Land Salesmen, Auction eer*, asd Woolbroken, - CHBISTCHTJRCH. 1390