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Otago Witness, Issue 1921, 11 December 1890, Page 21

Auctions. j SATURDAY, 20fh DECEMBER, ;. At 2 o'clock. At the Wool Stores, High street, Dunedin. TWO REMAINING FARMS On the late James Shand's Abbotsford Estate, West Taieri. To Close Partnership Accounts. WRIGHT, STEPHENSON, & CO. have received instructions from Messrs William Patrick and Co. to sell by auction at above time and place, The balance of the Abbotsford Estate, being farms numbered 7 and 8 on the plan, and containing respectively 102 acres 3 roods 8 poles and 104 acres, 2 roods 1 pole, all in wheat, a really good crop. These farms will be sold separately and on liberal terms. It is almost needless to make any remarks about the Abbotsford Estate, the land being admittedly about the best in Otago, and the soil practically inexhaustible ; still it may bo pointed out that the Estate possesses exceptional advantages from the Mosgiel-Outram Railway running through it, with Shand's siding in tho very centre, whilst no part of the property is more than about a mile from the siding, and the part most distant from the siding is within half a mile of tbe Greytown Station on the Main South line. 6d SATURDAY, 20th DECEMBER, At 2 o'clock. At the Wool and Grain Stores, High street. GOWRIE FARM, On the far-famed Taieri Plain. AM ACRES of the Choicest Agricultural and Grass Land in all New Zealand. WRIGHT, STEPHENSON, & CO have received instructions from Mr Peter Grant, of Gowrie Farm, West Taieri, to sell by auction, at above time and place, THE CELEBRATED GOWRIE FARM, Containing by admeasurement about 491 acres of the richest alluvial land in the colony. The Property will be offered in the first place in one lot, and failing a purchaser being found for it in its entirety, as follows :— Lot 1. — About 26 acres, adjoining Bathgate's and Allan's properties, being parts of sections 15, 16, and 23, block 111, Maungfttua District. Lot 2. — About 77 acres facing the Outram and Greytown road, adjoining Hastie's, and being part of section 3, and all section 2, irregular block, West Taieri Survey District. Lot 3. — About 153 acres, facing Outram nnd Greytown road on the one band, and road from Shand'n Siding to Gran ton on the other, being sections 8, 9, and 10, irregular block, West Taieri District. Lot 4.— About 233 acres, HOMESTEAD BLOCK, facing Outram and Greytown road, and being part of section 3, find all 4, 5, 6, and 7, irregular block, West Taieri District. Note. — Lot lis in oats ; lot 2is in wheat and oats ; lot 3is in oats, barley, and grass ; lot 4is in wheat, grass, potatoes, and turnips. The whole property is securely fenced, and subdivided by hawthorn and gorse hedges — beautifully kept. On lot 4, Homestead Block, are erected firstclass brick dwelling-house of 14 rooms, stables (13 stalls and 5 loose boxes altogether), cow byre of 18 stalls, model piggery (tbe best on the Plain), granary, lofts, mill, and implement sheds, wool sheds, sheep yards, sheep dip, blacksmith's workshop, &c, &c. There is a first-class orchard, lawn aud flower garden surrounding the house. This Property is too well-known to require comment or - praise at the hands of the auctioneers. Than it, there is certainly no better farm on the Taieri Plain — which is justly regarded as " The Garden of Otago." Gowrie is distant only about 16 miles from Dunedin, by which it is connected both by rail and road. Shand's Railway Station is within half a- mile of the Homestead, and Greytown within 1£ miles on the Main Trunk Lino. In the driest season there is always an unfailing supply of water. Lithograph Plans of the Property are now ready. For Plans and other particulars, apply to WRIGHT, STEPHENSON & CO., 14n Auctioneers, Dunedin. SATURDAY, 27th DECEMBER, At 12 o'clock. Small Grazing; Run. T> BID, MACLEAN, & CO. JL\i have been favoured with instructions from Mr F. M'Rae, executor in the estate of Alexander M'Rae, of Middlemarch (deceased) to sell by auction, at their Room?, Dunedin, on Saturday, the 27th December, at 12 o'clock, Sixteen Years' LEASEHOLD of small Grazing Run, Strath-Taieri district, with improvements thereon. — No. 10; area, 1456 acres 22 poles; section 6, block XI (eleven). Title registered under the Land Transfer Act. Annual rent, 6d per acre per annum— equal to £36 8s yearly. Possession to be given on 18th February 1891. Lease expires Ist March 1907. Also, Immediately after sale of above, The following MINING SHARES:— 1200 shares Crcosus Consolidated Q.M. Company, Nenthom l-28th part of Surprise Q.M. Company (Limited). Nen thorn One-half of Archibald Stewart's interest in the Four B Claim, Barewood. Terms and conditions at sale. REID MACLEAN, & CO., Auctioneers, lid Agents for the Executor.