Port Phillip-The allotments of land which wera sold at Port Phillip, on the 1st instant, fetched good prices. Some of the allotments at Melbourne, went as high as £90 each. There were only one hundred allotments sold, which realised upwaids of £3,800. We were unable to procure the details of tho sale in time for our present number, but shall probably do so by our next.
Cornwall Chronicle Saturday17 June 1837
PORT PHILLIP.
From a letter, dated 1st instant,
received from a respectable correspondent
at Melbourne, Port Phil lip, we are enabled to lay before our readers
the particulars of the Sale of
Allotments, sold on that day by order of
Sir Richard Bourke. Our corres pondent states, that 22 of the best allotments
were
purchased by non residents from
Sydney, and that some scores of industrious
settlers were unable to purchase, and
are, moreover, obliged to pull down such houses as they have rected in one
month after the day of sale. The 100½
acre allot ments realized £3,517
sterling. ALLOTMENTS Sold in the Township of Melbourne, Port Phillip, Thursday 1st June, 1837, Deposit £10
percent., remainder payable 1st.
July, other wise re-sold. Premises amounting to £50, to be built in
12 months, and all payments in
British Sterling, or Sydney Notes. V.
D. L. notes not received.
NO. PURCHASER. PR. NO. PURCHASER.
PR.
BLOCK NO. 2 BLOCK NO. 12
1. J. P. Fawkner £32 17. Jos.
Moore £20
2. Ditto 25 18. John Roach
28
3. Mr. Moss 27 19. Ditto
28
4. H. Howey 27 20. John Gardner
22
5. Jos Sutherland 25. BLOCK NO.
13.
6. L. McAllister 26 1. E. W.
Umphelty 61
7. Jas. Simpson 29 2.
Thomas Coombes 28
8. Jno. Batman 75
3. A. Willis 28
9 Fras. Nodin 35 4 H. McLean 30
10 Ditto - 40 5 John Piers 23
11 Henry Batman 65 6 Thomas
Fleming 28
12 James Smith 33
7 Thomas Brown 28
13 Ditto 40 8
Ditto 41
1 4 George Fisher 9
John Highett 42
I5 — Craig 33 10 Henry Hoddle 24
16 Wilson & Eyre 26 11 Ditto
30
17 Ditto 31 12 John Hughes
21
18 J. H. Wedge 50
13 H. Cooper 20 I9 - Brown 41 14 William Evans 21
20 J. H. Wedge 42 15 David Guillan 28
BLOCK NO. 4. 16 Thomas Walker 23
l Horatio Cooper 40 17 James Smith 26
2 Michael Carr 34 18 Thomas Brown 40
3 John Mills 35 19 Ditto 41
4 James Simpson 29 20 - Vaughan 46
5 Thomas Field 32 BLOCK NO. 14.
6 L McAllister ' 35 1- Wilson & Eyre 95
7 Ditto 35 2 George Smith 40
8 .Dr. Thompson 46 3 George Robson 43
9 L. McAllister 35 4 George Lilley 42
10 George Coulstock 31 5 - Ebdcen 41
11 -Ditto 40 6 Ditto 45
12 Joseph Hewson 22 7 Ditto 50
13 John Piers . 20 8 Bowermann 87
14 Thomas Napier 20 9 James Connell 69
15 William Sharp 21 10 T. D. Weatherly 55
16 Michael Pender 19 11 Gco. Mercer 70
17 John Batman 23 12Henry Smith 35
18 B Willis 42 13 Wm Hutton 36
19 R Russell 30 14 Thos. Walker 36
20 M. Carr 48 15 Ditto 39
BLOCK. NO. 12. 16 J. P. Fawkner 40
1 James Ross 32 17 Thos. Walker 41
2 Henry Batman 18 18 Charles Wedge 67
3 Gilbert Marshall 18 19 Fras. Nodin 50
4 - Synnott 19 20 Geo. F. Reid 56
5 Geo. Scarborough 18
6 Henry Howey 30 WILLIAMS TOWN
7 Ditto 29 7 Allotments sold.
8 Ditto 45
9 John.Wood 26 , BLOCK NO. 3.
10 Charles Swanston 30 3 H McLean £50
11 Dr Cotter 30 4 - Webb 40
12 Henry Allan :22 5 J. Mc'Namara 45
13 James Hill 20 6 Wm. Hutton 45
14 James McDonald 20 7 James Simpson 47
15 - Darke18 8- F. Nodin 59
16-J H Lancey20 9 John Hyland 42
..All the biddings were by pounds, and often £5 and £10; the first landholders of Port Phillip des pining the paltry method of bidding by shillings and crowns. . . Such ore the particuiars of our first Land Sale; the Auctioneer was Mr Hoddle, Surveyor Gene ral, fro m Sydney. The biddings were brisk, and soon knocked down. I presume more will be offered here soon, in hopes of a good price. Had 850 been put up, all would have been sold
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