LAND SALES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2396, 1 February 1900, Page 30

LAND SALES.

At the Land .Office yesterday the following runs -were put up by auction and disposed of as under: — Sections 13, 14, 15, and 17, block

VII, Table Hill; area, 700 a. 24p; terra, 14 years; upset rental, JSB 15s, with valuation for improvements £.60 — Passed in.

Runs 170b, 170 c, 170 d, and 170b,; area, 5990 acres; term, five years; upset rental, £74 17a 6d; vaointion for improvements, £41 4s. — C "W. Battray, at the upset rental. Ruu 137, 137 a, 137b, 137 c, 137 d ; area, 9091 acres ; term, 14 years ; upset rental, J375 15s 2d ; valuation, £16 as.— R. G. Hemy, £80.

Parts sections 2 and 3, block V, section 12, block IX, and section 17, block X, section 11, block IX, Teviot; area, 7509 acres; term, 14 years; upset rental, £25; valuation, £207 10s.— H. A. Taniblyn and William Tamblyn, at \ipset.

Run 129, Clutha; area, 12,040 acres; term, 10 years; rental, .2150 10s; valuation, £98 9s 6d. — J. B. Brugh, at upset.

Runs 24, 240b, 245, 245 a, 245b, 245 c, 245 d, 340, and 340 a, Vincent (Mount Pisa station) ; area, 147,400 acres; term, 21 years; rental, £500.— E. W. Parker, at upset.

Sections 7 and 8, Vincent and Ttiapeka; part section 3, block 111, Cairnhill; part sections 3 and 4, block VIII, Teviot ; sections 4, 6, 7, and 8, and part sections 2 and 3, block V ; part section 12, block IXj section 2, block VIII; section 46, block II — Teviot, and part of Whitcornbe district; area, 18,267 acres; term, 11 years ; rental, £150 ; valuation, £893 8s 6d. — Jane Elliott, at upset.

At Tofcara some farmers are already stacking their grain. Others have comme7iced threshingn q- out of the stook. The crops on the Waiareka Flat are looking splendid this year, and in some paddecks the wheat is expected to thresh 60 bushels to the acre.

The initiatory steps have been taken to establish a dairy factory on. the Government reserve on the Ardgowan estate, and it is expected that the factory will be built in a few months.