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ADVANCED AUSTRALIA

to show the range of values, and to illustrate what h£is been said:—

Franklin.—Twenty acres, all cleared, and two acres planted with apple trees. Cottage of five rooms, etc. £s55.

Forcett.—Farm of seventy-five acres, twenty-one acres under cultivation. Cottage of two rooms. Price, £140.

Hastings.—Fifty-one acres, one-and-a-half acres in orchard, two acres cleared for planting, ten acres cleared and fit for running cattle. W.B. Cottage, four rooms, cowshed, etc. Price, £130.

Dromedary.—Farm of fifty acres, about twelve acres under cultivation, one acre in orchard, house of five rooms, and outbuildings, etc. Plenty of water. Price, £150. Terms.

Gould's Country, East Coast.—Farm of eighty-one acres, about seventy acres cleared and in grass, cottage of six rooms, barn, stable, and cowsheds, etc., orchard of three acres. Price, £200.

Claremont.—Sixty-three acres, twenty-one acres have been under cultivation. W.B. cottage of four rooms and kitchen, barns, piggeries, cowshed, stable, and stock-yard; orchard of one acre just coming into full bearing, an excellent stream of fresh water. Farm implements, furniture, carpenters' tools, carts, drays, harness, etc. Price, £325.

Huon Road, 6½ miles from town.—Fifteen acres, six acres cleared and partly grassed, raspberry and currant beds, potato paddock, etc. New cottage of four rooms, stable, hut, etc. Price, £370.

West Davenport.—Good cottage of four rooms, and usual outhouses, fowlhouse, piggeries etc. Fruit and