Dunsinane Estate.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12195, 19 February 1903, Page 6

Dunsinane Estate.

- . ,-- '-+ .•• . V IDBAL SITUATION FOE DAIRY '•/, ."■ * ' FAEMS. ; ._ .;- ■ . 'important auction sale 01? , eligible homesteads. , The late Mr , Jnolpldijeth was the original purchaser? dfjPunsinane Estate, and f or. years ,ilflp^s,,. his home. It is one of the finest properties of its area in all Rangitikei, famed far and near. for the productiveness of its soil. On Thursday, 19th March, the choice estate, consisting- of over a thousand' acres of magnificent country; is tO; be offered at auction at Mr R. E. Beckett's sale rooms. in Marton, the sale beginning at 2 p.m. v Dunsi^ nane is about three miles from, Mar-, tonkin the direction of Upjaer .Tutafeniui andParaekaretu, and *has' a beautiful situation. The area of th'e.farnls into which- the estate' Has been. ' ,sub|.divided wilt vary from 40 to 130 ac- ' res," and the purchaser who , get's hold 'of any one of the sections will' have I the making of as nice a homestead as |he co)ol<l, .find' were he to search, the ! colony ' from. ' end to 1 end. ' ■ 'Years ago an- offer was made to the* late Mr Me- ,• Beth to cut lip . Dunsinane . into a township; but this he resolutely , declined to do, maintaining thai the' soil was -too good, or, as he put it, the country wa's too fine for • a towfrship. It is said that there is not an acre of Dunsinane that is not firstclass country. The estate' is the cream of that portion of the,' Tutaenui district, which is renowed' for the excellence, of its soil for grain, roots, [ ' and grass. Many* .will regret to see the $d 'homestead, with^ Is assofciatefcl memories - of, oiie of the '"best ; pioneer t /settlers : and • gehtfeEhen who ever settled in Rangitikei „los 6 its , individuality as one > estate, but: tl^e sub-division ; of the estate wilLful--fil the oft-expressed desire of it's ofi-. I ginal selector- to- prbvMe homes for in-.', "dustrious settjers. It is anticipated that, every „icr find, a purchaser,, and' -tiiai -e^ery purchaser will" admit that'.hd has- not waited in vain;, till; Dunsinane should be put; in the mark-i e't.s Hans '>can be obtained .from 'apylof the\ branch ofßces of the'~New-.rZea-" la.rid .Loan afed Mercantile Comjpffny r the auctioneer, Marton, , and ,also : at the office and branch offvpes , of, this, paper, and j<-'from Messrs Roy',, &n/(X. Wilson,- 'Solicitors, New^yiK^tlr^^ *!,