RIVERSIDE LAND SALE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 93, 13 January 1908, Page 2

RIVERSIDE LAND SALE.

Tho dryness of tho season •'was no doulbt responsible for tho.flatness of tho Riverside Land Sale at Mastcrton on Saturday, (writes • our, AVairarapa correspondent), ■ although ono' , fiirmor present stated that-it'jvaf n<J iis6 buying land beoauso one was never quite sura how rriiich of a tax would bo place! upoii it by the Government. There was 1 .largo attendance of fartiers E.iid land ageAts at' the sale, but bidding ,wais. £rqctic'alfy/spiritless., The property, iYliioh";;compris^ ; .2378 acr<js, within three and eleven : milps respectively from Martinborough lirid Caitert&i, was offered inilirie scctiohei. ranging v from 116 \to 1 730 acrqs, which Was the the homestead block,; .with iU . fine yards and outbuildings, riyfer loil, arid milling tirtbor. Bidding, for the first section 1 of" ,394 .acres commenced at £5 per acre; and the property was passed in at £6 10s. There-were ho bids for the sections Cdmprising'ls6,ls9/154,11,6, 220, and 205 acres; the; 252 acrtis , was passed iii at £5,. while the homestead Seption '! was passed in at £10. Mn : ]>V&il, !\Hib owns the, property, has tho Satisfaction' of . knowihg that, even if iio haS not .sold : it, lie has made a small fortune out of it in the .• past years, while at tho-.siime' timo he-has improved the whole block 'almost beyond rf ' . cognition. . : 1 ' .