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Press, Volume X, Issue 1193, 3 September 1866, Page 1

Auctions. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. HAWTHORNDEN, THE RESIDENCE op J. DRUMMOND MACPHERSON, ESQ. MESSRS. J. OLLIVIER & SON have been favored with instructions from J. D. Macpherson, Esq., who is returning to England for a few months, to SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION, At his Residence, as above, on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1866, All his Household Furniture and Effects, together with the valuable estate known as Hawthornden. Among the household furniture will be found the usual fittings of a gentleman's residence, belonging to the Drawing-room Dining-room Library Sleeping-room Kitchen Still-room Dairy &c, &c., &o. Carriages Horses Harness Cows Pigs Poultry Garden and farm implements Full particulars in a few days. During the sale the Auctioneers will offer HAWTHORNDEN, The Dwelling-house, Outbuildings, &c. All improvements Together with SEVENTY-FIVE ACRES OF FREEHOLD LAND, ATTACHED This property is situated in a very healthy position, and is five miles distant from Christchurch by the Fendalltown road. The dwelling house is commodious and very well arranged, and consists of eleven rooms, with the necessary outbuildings. The stable, coach-house, cow-house, and men's room, &c, are in a separate building detached. The garden, shrubbery, and drive cover five acres of the property, and have been most carefully laid out. The 6tock of trees and plants in the garden and shrubbery is very superior and extensive; besides these, ornamental clumps have been placed here and there" through the paddocks, and the whole property is surrounded by a belt of young English trees. Anyone deeirono o£ makine a comfortable home, with farm attached, in the countrj, where access to town would be easy, would find this an eligible place. And at the same time, THAT VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE In Salisbury street, Christchurch, now in the occupation of Crosbie Ward, Esq. The dwelling-house is substantially built, and contains Drawing and diningroom Several bedrooms Capital kitchen and out-buildings, all in excellent order. The land consists of half-an-acre, all laid out as garden ground, and abundantly stocked with fruit trees, vegetables, flowers, &c. The property is now let at a rental of £120 per annum. 8-14 SALE OF FARM STOCK. LOWER SPRINGS TRACK. MESSRS J. OLLIVIER & SONS have received instructions from the Trustees in the estate of tbw lat©~Mr Bobe*fc Day, to sell by public auction, on the farm, on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER - 6, 1866, the whole of his valuable farm stock and household effects, Consisting of— Draught horses Well-bred hacks Colts and fillies Cows in full milk, and in calf 50 pigs Poultry and pigeons Drays and carts Spring cart Light and draught harness Implements Household furniture and effects &c, &c, &c. Farmers and others wishing to avail themselves of this splendid opportunity to dispose of their surplus stock, can enter them with the Auctioneers on or before the morning of the ale. 8-25 IN THE ASSIGNED ESTATE OF J. C. BROOKE & CO. SALE OF BUSINESS PREMISES, GOODWILL, &c. MESSRS. J. OLLIVIER & SON have received instructions from the Trustees in the above Estate to sell by public auction on the Premises, Colombo street, Christchurch, on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, At noon, The goodwill of the business lately carried on by J. C. Brooke and Co. as chemists and druggists ; together with the lease of the premises, hayr ing about sixteen years to runThe purchaser to take fixtures and fittings at valuation, and the stock at London list prices. For terms and further particulars apply to Mr. John Lewis, Cookham-house; or to THB AX7OTIONBBBB. 8-17