LAND SALES AT ASHBURTON.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12970, 25 November 1907, Page 9

LAND SALES AT ASHBURTON.

Thoro "wae a very largo gatbhering of farmers end others in Messrs Friedr kuntJor Bros.' grain store, A&hburtan, on Safcurtiaiy, -when th© firm, in oonjumfcfcion with Messrs Gould. Beaumont and 00., offered for salo at public auction 4250 acres of Mr D. Cemerofl'e well-known Springfield Estate, divided into ooeweniontly-siwjd lots. Mr R. FricdJ-imdor wa3 tho auctioneer, end from -tfhe opening +o th© close the biddim g for the various lots was very and tlho sale proved owe of tne most successful over .hold in tho Ashiburton district. FoMowing are the reeiilte:—26B acres, in -whoat crop, £29 peT acre, Mir Jounce McOenor; 255 acres, in wheat, £28 10a per acre. Mt W. Campbell;- 802 «Jree, in whipat, £31 per acre, Mr F. Matiheson; 232 acres, m graw. £22 10b per acre, Messrs Henderson Bros; 198 acres, in £18 10e per ecre, Mr B. Tully ;• 384 ncrm, in greis, £21 per acre, Mr W. W. Wright; 275 «cree, in grass, £13 10s per acre, (Mr S. CampbeU- 230 aores, in grass, £11 per ocre. Mr H. aiagnvaeea; 304 eoree, in grass, £23 per ecre, Mr J. Mooribead; 231 acres, i<n grass, £27 10s per aero, Mr J. Moorheed; 282 acres, m gr-im, £25 per aero, Messrs Thomipson Bros; 109 ffTcs. in grass, £25 per acre. Messrs Mr H. Maeinnefs; 304 acres, in grass £16 per acre, Messrs Hendorson. Bros.; 411 aoree part in wheat end part in grass, .and known as tih© old horoeetced block, reached & bid of £21 10s per acre, at -which figure it was wdttidrnwn • 233 acres, part in oats 4 £16 per acre,

W. J. CasnpfceHr 282 aowe, in groat, £19 per •Cγ©, Mr W. J. Breuh. fnetotai sales ittrfW £82,990 lOs, or an average <rf *J»at £21 Hβ lOd per ecro. A total of 4097 acres of Mr D. Morrow's Montalto Estate was also offered in suitable lots, btrt it w«s finally withdrawn for private eaio.