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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1286, 15 November 1911, Page 9

At their rooms to-day Messrs. Brand and Johnston will auction a quantity of household furnishings. Tho sale starts at 1.30 p.m. Particulars are advertised in another column. Messrs. J. H. Bethnno and Co. advertise an auction sale of investment shares, under instructions from the Public Trustee, by direction under the will of tho late Mr. P. T. Fair. The sale is to be held at their rooms, Featherston Street,, on Tuesday, December 5, at 2.30 p.m. The list includes shares in the following companies:—National Insurance, New' Zealand Investment M. and D. Co., Ltd., Gear Meat Co., and Standard Insurance Co., and these will be sold in lots to suit the requirements of buyers. Further particulars may be obtained on anplication to tho auctioneers, or to the Public Trustee. Messrs. Williams and Kettle, Ltd., Napier, advertise in this issue G9OO acres of freehold land, which they have for sale. The property is about seven miles from Waipukurau. Tenders are invited by the Maoriltnd Steamship Co., Ltd., for the construction of a four-bladcd cast-iron propeller for the s.s. Lauderdale. Specifications may be seen and inspected at the company's office, Jervois Quay. Erected in 1752, a flonr mill at Ruswarp (Yorkshire), belonging to Sir Francis Ley, was destroyed by fire on September 25. Feu* the 6econd time this year a chestnut tree in the railway station yard at Stowmarket (Suffolk) has been in full bloom. Dufferin flour mills, Belfast, were almost completely destroyed by fire on September 24, tho damage being estimated at over ioO.OOO. Leaves of the' large cactus plants at Hampton Court Palace have been dam-' aged by visitors cutting their names and initials on them.