LAND SALES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2622, 15 June 1904, Page 22

LAND SALES.

1 Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report having. effected the following sales of laud: — I Castl"rock Estate.— Allotment PI, Castleiock, 1 containing 362^ acres strong flat land in Eng- | lish grass, to Mr W. F. Allen, of Ashburton. I This is one of the choicest portions of the ! c°tate. and will make an excellent farm. Morton Mains Estate. — On account of Mr ' Hugh M'Lean, allotment No. 2, Morton Mains j Estate, containing 240 acres, and being part 1 oi section 42, Lothian Hundred, to Mr J. Aitcheson, of Morton Mains ; also allotment 3, j containing 316 V acres, and being part of the same section, to Mr J. W. T. Chapman, of Alford Forest, North Canterbury. Both of these farms have been most liberally treated by the vendor during the past lew years in 1 the matter of lime and manure, and the purj chasers will reap the benefit of this. Of this estate there now remains unsold only allotment j No. 1, containing about 300 acres, and negotia- ; tions in regard to this are now proceeding, i Taylor's Flat. — On account of Mr John Westt lake, London, his property in the Waiau Valley, known asTaylol's Flat, containing 2209 acres, and being sections 3, 5, 24, and 25, Takitimo district. This is all level agricultural _ land, sweet, dry soil, and easily worked. The purchaser is Mr Roderick M'Kenzie, of Blackmount. ( Heddon Bu3h Estate. — On account of Mr I Donald M'Donald, 649 acre 3, known- as the Woolshed Block, and the 200-acre paddock immediately behind the woolshed, to Mr John , Read, <of Oiioka, Canterbury; 300 acres, part ! section 118, being part of the 367-acie paddock I on the west side of the block recently purj cha=ed by Mr Cairns, to Messrs Ralton Bros., Heddon Bush; 480 acres surrounding the homestead, and known as the Homestead Block, to aii undisclosed purchaser. All these blocks, with the exception of Messrs Ralton Bros.' ! purchase, are in English grass, and ready for j cultivation. The sales on Heddon Bush were j effected in conjunction with the National Mort- ; gage pnd Agency Company of New Zealand , (Limited), Invercargill.