situate about 2 MILES FROM GUNNING POST Town, and midway between the TOWNS OF GOULBURN AND YASS, and confuting of 2661 AORES of the finest agricultural and crazing land in THE COUNTY OF KING, together with the improvements, including Dwelling Houses, with Stabling and other Out-buildings, large Vineyard, Orchard, Wine House, Gardener's Cottage, Kitchen Garden, Cultivation, and Grass Paddocks, 4o, together with which will be given in

100 HEAD or QUIET DAIEY AND OTHER CATTLE,

30 HEAD OF WORKING AND OTHER HORSES,

15 WORKING BULLOCKS.

2000 to 3000 Gallons of Colonial Wine, warranted,

Household Farniture, including Piano.

All kinds of Agricultural Implements, Tools, Drays, Carts, Apparatus fer making Wino, Still, &c, Ac.

With the BALTINGLASS ESTATE will also be transferred to the purchaser 10,230 ACRES of pre-emptive and leased lands, including 8 Sheep Stations, with the necessary hurdles,fence.

TERMS-LOW LIBERAL, being 25 PER CENT, CASH on the fall of the hammer, - 25 PER CENT, CASH on completion of conveyance, - REMAINING HALF by approved bills at one, two, and three years from day of salo, secured upon the property.- (REf - Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875)(about) Previous issue Monday 11 June 1855)

1840 - The residance of Mr. Benjamin Clayton, situate on the banks of the Fish River, was attacked a short time ago, by armed men; they took away a fowling piece, and pistols. On leaving, they told him not to be alarmed, as no violence would be offered to himaself or any person about his premises, but added "that they must borrow his horses a few days on Iartliela,• brlsinssa, and which business, when finished-they would be puting such a place that he (Mr. Clayton) should find them." Several robberies have been committed about the Lachlan River, amongst the rest, the stores of Mr. Harrison of Yass, whose servant in charge had a narrow escape, a ball fired at him having grazed his cheek and damaged one of his whiskers. Jan. 6, 1840. - (Ref- The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (NSW : 1838 - 1841)(about) Previous issue Monday 13 January 1840).

1841 - Valuable Homestead,near Gunning. MR. SAMUEL LYONS will sell by auction, on WEDNESDAY, the 31st of March, 1841, at his Mart, corner of George Street and Charlotte Place. Two thousand six hundred and forty one acres of LAND, in the county of King, (purchased from the crown), situated midway be tween Goulburn and Yass, and about one mile from the township of Gunning, where the mail passes and repasses six times a week. This farm (Baltinglass) possesses the incalculable advantage of four miles frontage to the Fish River, and is intersected in other directions by creeks, which are never dry. There are on the establishment a shingled cottage of eight rooms, partly finished, a verandah fortyfive feet long, a detached shingled building contaiuning kitchen, laundry servant's room, and store, with a loft capable of holding three or four hundred bushels of grain, a five-railed fenced stockyard and stackyard, a poultry house, a garden of upwards of four acres and a half, enclosed by a paling fence, and stocked with upwards of one hundred fruit trees, grape vines, etc, having in the centre of it ponds of excellent water. About twenty-five acres of land were in cultivation last season, and produced the best crops in the neighbourhood, which are now well secured. The river abounds with most delicious fish, which are caught of immense size in the summer months.

There are several hundreds of acres of the finest land available for agricultural purposes, being thinly wooded. This farm is wall calculated for a dairy herd of cattle, from its extensive and unfailing supply of the purest water; it commands a very extensive run of government land, which the holder of this farm ensures, by its extensive right to water frontage. The neighbourhood has been long established as one of the best sheep districts in the colony.

The following sheep will be sold with the farm, (station, hurdles, &c., in every way complete). They are of good quality, and have never been diseeased. The young ewes are bred from merino rams; the lambs of last year fromn a Lolicester cross on the morino: Four hundred and fifty ewes of ages Four hundred and twenoty five ditto, two and a half years old Five hundred wethers, 3 years old, and choice rams Six hundred and fifty lambs, six months old.

The stocks of grain, wheat, barley, &c., will be given at a low valuntlon. Further partliculars on reference to the auctioneer, Terms at time of sale 4216 - (Ref- Australasian Chronicle (Sydney, NSW : 1839 - 1843)(about) Previous issue Saturday 20 March 1841).

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