Local Intelligence.

New Zealander, Volume 13, Issue 1147, 15 April 1857, Page 3

Local Intelligence.

Land Sale.—According to advertisement, a sale of a variety of lot's of Waste Lands took place at the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute on Monday, The attendance, at the commencement, was alack hut became much more numerous as the sale proceeded. For the Country lands (if Mongawai, offered at ten shillings an acre, there was little demand and no competition, but three lots of 82 acres, 7G| acres, and 74i acres being taken at the upset valuatio , out of seven and twenty lots brought forward. There were no offers for nine farms at Karaka varying in extent from 10.5 to 300 acres. At Pukekohe, a farm <>f 137 acres was sold at the upset price of ten shillings per acre. Twenty nine allotments in the Village of Maharangi were brought forward at an upset valuation of £5 per acre, but there was not a bid for any of them, Sixteen allotments, of an average of half an acre each, in the village ofPapakura, met n ready aale at a liberal advance,—the upset valuation of the whole amounted to £33 15s. the sum realised was £B4 10s. twenty five similar allotments in the village ofDrurywere brought forward. Of these, sixton were sold, for £42 15 .. being £ls lfc». 4d. above the aggrega e upset valuation. Twenty three lots in the village of Pura Pura exciteil a very animated competition all of them win?taken at a material advance upon the upset which amounted on the whole to £67 9s. 2d., whilst £.210 were realised Seventeen lots in the Remuera Suburb were hrought forward, the smallest lot contained about five acres, and the largest one about twenty acres. there was little Competition for these lots which *ere all taken except three. The aggregate v oVwas esiimated at < 1246 6s. 3d., tlie figure realised Aas £1431 Is. 31. The total proceeds ot thesale amounted to £1954 13s. ( Jd. I'mi. Accidbnt to Mk. .J. Maxwbll. —Ou MM y, Dr. Andrews held an nquest at the Jilliani Denny lb. el, on the bodv o Mr. .James fwweU, of " Maxwell's Bush,""who was killed , n Thursday last bv a fall from bis horse. From f. evidence it appear d that the deceased elt us house on the Thursday morning on "' < " l|i, <-'k. to go to Mr M. Kellv'*, vvhieb is J""" twelve miles from the 'residence of * deceased. In the evenin" bis horse "mie,| w i t | 10ut its ~-t lI( . (S but Mw< M, lxwe ll pm the animal had broken loose at the Wade. day, however, six-soul her son to tbe Wade, l*» whether his father bad left. He was inMaxwell had left about 4 o'clock tll,: Ihnrsday; that, on leavina, he had tried tu"."' l ' le no se over something, and had been Nl' W "i ' ll!l ' 1 ' mrae( iiately re-mounted and Lt'T"lt 0 "' (> " returnin 8 borne the boy was te | , Ir - Rill l>h Osbaldistone, who on Saturday I '"' !lt)f >"t 400 yards from his own home The '"was double I und»r the b cast, and the body Cm tk ' a Pt ,eamnce of llilvm - been B(>me the 1 ! ' J '''' 1 ' rnin 'be appearance of thr, •'.' Iliul "" doubt that deceased had been '±s from his horse, and kicked on the head o . w °n the ground. The jury returned a verdict found dead " T], L . deceased has left a widow ""'numerous family. our oScBT •' Can i,e oDta iiieil regularly at our ■;, i •' v is n verv spirited publication con\r ' qqq ' ''• LATE PURCHASE. —An CtTwr i»Utiv t '" : transcr *P t,on of the official documents 'Jeiurav tllismuU *-' l ' The 4th paragraph in en'hris th ' ' sr " read thus:—"Finding obstacles wrown m my way, 1 applied to punhase land on

the opposite side of the river to my former application; and 1 was also informed that that land was required for a township; bat the Surveyor General informed me that if I would apply for any other land not already marked as a Reserve, 1 should be allowed to purchase." Tn the letter dated December 15th, 18.56, instead of reading, "I will recapitulate," it should read " I will not recapitulate."