CROWN LAND SALE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1342, 18 August 1877, Page 11

CROW N LAND SALE.

Our correspondent at Waikouaiti sends us the fol. lowing account of the sale of the late Hawksbury Bush Reserve : —

The late Hawksbury Bu-h Reserve, about a milo from the Northern Railway Station, was offered on Saturday last, at the Court House, by the Government auctioneer, Mr R. B. Martin. The sale commenced punctually at 11 o'clock Buyers put in an appearance lrom Dunedin, Port Chalmers, and Palmerston, with a Urge sprinkling of local farmero, who filled the CourtHouse. The bidding was t-pirited f ova. the beginning. Two Port Chalmers residents succeeded in securing sections under their emigration certificates, and intend to remove their families on to their land immediately. The area of the laud offered was about 375 acres, »nd realised, on an averanw, over £S per acre. Total proceeds of sale close on £ >000.

That portion of tho reserve temporarily withdrawn from sale, a part of it for a quarry reserve, will when ■> surveyed, draw a number of buyeis. The sections in Waikouuti township found no buyers. The following prices, at per acre, were obtained IVr ei\-h sjoiion : - ° ' Section 64, block V., 9 acres, vp 3 tt piiue, £5, sold at £10 10s ; 64 do do, 9 acres, upset price £5, sold at £8 10s ;66 do do, 13 acree, upset price, £5, sold at £8 10s ; 67 do do, 13 acres, upset price, £5, sold at £7 ; 69 do do, 18 acres, upset price, £5, sold at £Glsj70 do do, 10 acres, ups?t piic«, £5 sold at £9 10s • 77 do do, 9 acres, up,et ptico, £5, sold at £7 • 78 do do, 6 acres, upset pri':e. £5, sold at £13 10s • 79 do do, 5 acres, upset price, £5, sold at £7 jos ; 80 do do, 6 acres, upset pr.co, £5, .sold at £6 10-j ; 81 do do, 12 acres, upset price, £5, sold afe £7 10a82 do do, 12 acres, upset price, £5, sold at £7 10s ; 83 do do, 17 acres, upset price, £5, sold at £11 10s ; 84 do do, 10 acres, upset price, £5. sold at £ios ; 85 do do, 11 acres, upset price, £5, sold at £lt 10j ; 88 do do, 21 acre*, upset price, £4, sold at £8 l(h ; 89 do do,- 10 acres, upset price. £4, sold at £7 15s ; 90 do do, 12 acre 3, upset price, £4, sol.t at £5 103 ; 91 do do, 9 acres, upset price, £4, sold at £7 ; 93 do do, 8 acres, upset price. £5. sold at £5 10s ; 94 do do, 10 acres, upset price, £5, sold at £7 10s ; 95 do do, 10 acres, upset price, £5, sold at £8 5s ; 96 do do, 4 acres, upset price, £5, sold at £8 ; 97 do do, 10 a 'res, upset price, £4, sold at £6 ; 98 do do, 10 acres, upset price, £4, sold at £10 ss; 99 do do, 17 acres, upset price, £4, 60ld at £7 ; 100 do do, 13 acres, upset pi ico, £4, sold »t £4 10s ; 101 dodo, 8 acres, upset price, £i, sold at £7 ; 102 do do, 10 acres, upset price, £4, sola a1;a 1 ; £G; 103 do do, 11 acres, upiet price, £5, sold at £7 ; 101 do do, 8 acres, upset price, £5, sold at £7 ; 105 110 do, 3 acres, upset price, £5, sold at £8 ; 106 do do, 15 acies, upset prce, £5, sold a* £6 ; 107 do do, 12 acres, upset price, £5, sold at £12 ss.