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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 233, 25 June 1908, Page 8

Messrs. J. E. Bethune and Co. held a property auction at their rooms yesterday afternoon. The lease for 21 years of a grazing farm at Porirua, containing 500 acres, being College Reserve XI., Paekakariki, was submitted and excited keen competition. The bidding started at a rental of JEISO per annum, and increased up to .£325 per annum, at which figure tho lease was knocked 'down to Mr. AY. Newman. A property in Ellice Avenue,.being dwelling No. 6, and fon.r five-roomed dwellinghouses in. Jefferson' Street-and.'Oh'iro Road, Brooklyn, wero offered; but the reserve not being reached, were passed in, and are now in the hands of the auctioneers for private sale. The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company'advertises special'train arrangements and excursion tickets in connection'with tho British Test Match'on 1 Saturday. Mr. W. P. Healy, auctioneer, advertises a sale of sundries' this afternoon. I. Messrs. Harris and Sussex, land agents, Levin, advertise-100 acres near Lovin for sale. Messrs. Hallonstein Brothers draw attention in this issue to their great alteration sale, commencing to-day. Particulars will'be found on page 4. : ■ A very fine collection of gold, silver, and copper coins is now on,view, and elsewhere advertised for salo at Mr.'P. Khouri's, 101 Lambton Quay. Messrs. Charles Pratt and Co. notify that they have takon over the agency of the Now Zealand Retailors' Protection Association. Tho Canterbury Jockey Club notifies that entries for the Grand National Steeples, Grand National Hurdles, Beaufort Steeples, Lincoln Steeples, Sydenham Hurdles, and the Winter Cup close at 8 p.m. to-morrow. The Karori Borough Council has a notice in this issue regarding a special order of the transfer of a section: Tho 'annual geuerrfl meeting of the Wellington branch of the Journalists' Institute is advertised to take place at -1 o'clock this afternoon, at the Press Association's Rooms, Brandon Street. Messrs. Warnock and Adkin advertise on page 3 that they are offering' real feather stoics ,at half price. '