PROPERTY SALE.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 718, 31 March 1900, Page 3

PROPERTY SALE.

DISPOSAL OF THE BROOKSDALE ESTATE. Messrs Dalgely and Co. (Limited) and Mr W. Quin report having held a very successful sale of land on account of the British and Australian Trust and Loan Company (Ltd.), Brooksdale estate, at Tapanui, on Thursday last. There was a large attendance of buyers from every pint of Otago, but, with one exception, Ihe lots sold fell to local buyers. The homestead block of 2000 acres was passed in, and, with the exception of two other lots, is all that remains of the 14,000 ucies that once comprised the Brooksdale estate. The following are the sales : — Lot 1.— 200 a2r 18p, at £8 10s, to Messrs Alexander and Malcolm Robertson (Tapanui Flat). Lots 2, 3, and 5.— 810 a3r 24p, at £7 average, to Mr A. D. McGillivray (Oreenvale). Lot 4.— 320- Or 29 p, at £0 ss, to Messrs Jacob Sheainy and Sous (Crookston). Lot 1i.— 299a lr 03p, at £6, to Mr Alexander Black (Palnierston). Lot 7.-lG2a lr 30p, at £5 10s, to Mr Mark McAulcy (Brooksdale). Lot 9.— 53 aOr 39p, at £5 10.-i, to Mr George Pinekney (Brooksdale). Lot 11.— 74a Or 31p, at £3 15s, to Mr N. McDonald (Kelso).

The Otago and Southland section of the fifth contingent will leave cninp al Addinglon to-day and embiuk on tho Gymciic al Lyttelton. Nineteen thousand backs of oats have been shut out of the Gymerie. The Eureka Co.'s dredge on the Mataura river a little below tbe township, starled work on Thursday. Tho niacbineiy worked very smoothly and to the expressed satisfaction of the directois usid \isilnrs in attendance. So far the doctors in attendance on the British wounded in Nutiil am unanimous in praising the hum-- nity uf the Mauser bullet, and unite in giving tbe Boers credit for using only the plain undiluted projectiles. It must be, suys the ' Gapu Times,' lhat doctored bullets have hitherto missed their mark or the wounds caused bj thrni have been put down to shells, for amongst Ihe ammunition found on the prisoueis mar the Tugcla were Dum Dum bulluls, spin bulb-Is, filed bullets, and other varieties used in b. ii-fing down gamp. Tbe rifles included -Mausu s, Martinis, a No. 2 Express, and other patterns, which serve to show the variety employed by tho Free State forces, tho mini captuiod being a portion of a Free State contingent. Tenders have been accept d by the Southland County Council for tie! rullmving woiks : — Mataura Island to Titiroa Siding road, formation and gravelling, W. Baird ; Bainlield road, formation and gravelling, W. Bnird ; Riveisdale to Waikaia road, W. Baird; Wendon District roads, formation and gravelling, T. Middiemiss; Waikaka Siding to Waikaka road, . maintenance gravel, C. Cooper. Tbe preventative measures adopted by tho authorities iv Sydney have so far not resulted in any headway being made towards starnpout the bubonic plague. Latest reports state that a girl named Millard at Redfern, a man mimed Dickenson at Paddington, and a woman (name unknown) at Subsex street are amongst the most lately seized with the disease. The Union Steamship Company has made fulthcr additions to i'.s already numeious fleet by the purchase of two large cargo steamer.! of a dead weight capacity of 5000 tons anil 1500 tons respectively. Tbe former is named the Whaugape, and is for tbe intercolonial cargo and coal trade. She is nearly ready for tea, and it is expected to sail from England for the colony within a fortnight. She is chartered by the Imperial Government to land a cargo of coal at the Cape en route. The second ship, named the Katipo, carries a good cargo ou a light draft, and will probably- bn employed in the Tasnianian costal trade along with the Coonya and Kittawa, two ships of the same class which have been recently added to the company's fleet in Tasmanian waters. Tho robbery of £GO,OOO from Parr's Bank in January o ' last year has evolved another mystery (wntes a London correspondent). Bank notes lo the value of £19.400, stolen on that occasion, have just been returned to the bank. Some weeks afier-the robbery £40,000 in notes wore discovered in the bunk lavatory; this week's, find was made in the box used for the deposit of pass-books. The notes were returned in the pocket of an .old pass-book. One £100-notc was recovered a few days ai'o. It was presented at a shop for the purchase of a rieg, but the eustuuicr, seeing that it was being closely examined, hastily left the shop. Another of the stolen £100-notes was Ihe subject of a trial last week. A re.-pßctable butcher had given gold for it lo a betting man, with whom lie had a slight acquaintance, but who hnd since disappeared. The bank lefused to honor the note, but as he had given value for it the judges decided in Iho butcher's favor. There liow only remains some £200 of the stolen £60,000 unaccounted for. The resignation of tho Anglican clergyman at Tararalgon (Victoria) caused some sui-prise in local ehel s. It appears that a difference has arisen between him and the Bishop of Melbourne owing to the clergyman's marr'age with his deceased wife's sister, which is against canonical law, although in accordance with' the law oi the land.

Twenty civil engineers and draughtsmen hii-.o been at work ni:;ht und d*y upon the mos-l stupendous undeilalmg ih thu history of map making. The whole of New j York, including also Yonkers, MwPlit Vernon. 1 a -d New Rochelle on the north, S.fdy Hook. ,v.d the harbor f =rt Ji .it : <ins on the south. North Hompsti ad and adjoining portions of Nassau County >m the east, and the highlands of Navesink, Pali rson, Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, and Bayoune on tbe west, have been put to paper on the scale of 600 ft to the inch. The work was begun in July last under the direction of New York's chief topographical engineer, Louis A. Risso, and for the colossal map the city appropriated the sum of £2000. The map is in seven sections, the while, when placed together upon the specially built platform, covering a space of 28f» by 24ft. A most elaborate border encloses tbe map. This will display fifty artistically-drawn sketches of prominent biildings. The map shows not only the streets and houses, but railroads, surface lines, canals, bridged, underground pipe and el'Cfrio cable conduits— in fact, every top; graphical feature of this mest industrious and in:ric.ilc dii-tiicl. A hoidwood platform will hold the map, properly railed to prevent injury, and tilted to invite easy inspection when set up in one of the great buildings of the Paris Exhibition. Public meeting rcga.ding the Forest nill Railway to be he'd ou Tuesday. 3rd April. Smart youth wanted by J. Mac Gibbon and Sons. •Sucscriptions to the Indian Famine Relief Fund thankfully received by Mrs Copland. Domain Board invites tenders for four acres grazing. Minstrel entertainment in aid of Indian Famine Relief Fund postponed till Tuesday, 10th April.