Auction, Estate or the late Colonel Leahy

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser

2 August 1839

3,600 Ewes, Rams, - Wethers, &c. Working Bullocks. Farming Implements, with an excellent Station, Mens' Huts, &c. &c.  

By order of J. E. Manning. Esq., Registrar of the Supreme Court for account and benefit of the Estate or the late Colonel Leahy, deceased.

A. Polack, will dispose of at Public Auction, on Monday the 2nd of September, at his rooms, the following valuable flocks depasturing at the Junction of the Doomut - with the Murrumbidgee and about forty Miles South-West of Yass,

3,600 Sheep, more or less, of the following description

One Flock Ewes, of ages 4 to 10 Years.... 704

One ditto ditto ditto mixed....................... 364

One ditto ditto 3 years old ....................... 116

maiden...................................................... 384

500

One ditto Wethers 3 and 4 years old ....... .592  

One ditto ditto 1 and 2 years old ..... . .......586

One ditto Lambs (600 female) ............ ..... 742

Rams ................. ................................ ...... 50

About 1,200 of the Ewes are to Lamb during this month and September. One good Stock Horse 16 Working Bullocks 250 Hurdles, more or less 2 Drays 2 Ploughs Huts and Improvements An excellent Run or Station (Government) adjoining Mrs. Hely's, Mr. Tooth's, and Mr. Stuckey's.

The whole (Stock, Station, and Improvements,) will be put up in one Lot, then, should no buyer be found, the various Flocks will be Sold to meet the views of purchasers; the rams will be divided a portion to each flock of ewes, in the event of the Sheep &c.. being sold in separate lots.

They are to be removed by the 15th October, and the Run delivered over to a purchaser of Colonel Leahy's Interest therein, on the 1st November.

Terms:- A Cash deposit of Ten per Cent. at the fall of the hammer, for the residue approved negotiable bills at three and six months from the day of sale.

Caution

The Colonist

17 August 1839

With reference to Mr. A. Polack's intended Sale, on Monday the 2nd September next, to dispose of the right of Run, on which the Sheep of the late Colonel Leahy are now trespassing, situate at the junction of the Doomat with the Murrumbidgee, called Tarrabandra.

I hereby caution the Public from purchasing the same, it having been in my possession and occupancy, as a Cattle Run, during the last five years, and I hold a License expressly for the aforesaid station.