RECENT PROPERTY SALES.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 156, 23 November 1896, Page 5

RECENT PROPERTY SALES.

♦ Messrs. J. H. Bethune & Co., land and estate agents, report the sale by private contract of a large number of city and suburban landed properties, including the following : — Nairn-street — Freehold land, 64ft x 70ft, with eight-roomed dwellinghouse, sold for £570. Tinakori-road—Free-hold land, 21ft 6in x 108 ft, together with dwelling-house of six rooms, sold for £340. Buller-street— Freehold building allotment, 30ft x 139 ft, price not disclosed. Willisstreet—Freehold land, 30ft x 169 ft, together with shop and dwelling-house of nine rooms, price not disclosed. Banks-terrace — Freehold land, 30ft x 120 ft, together with dWelling-house of five rooms, sold for £350. Paikakariki — Freehold allotment, 24 perches, fronting public road, sold to Dr. Adams for £50 ; freehold allotment, 19 perches, to Dr. Adams for £40 ; freehold allotment, 21 perches, Dr. Adams, £40; freehold allotment, 14 perches; to Mr. E. W. Lowe, £40; freehold allotment, 14 perohes, Mr. E. W. Lowe, £40; freehold allotment fronting public road, 14 perches, Mr. E. W. Lowe, £50. Also several allotments in the township of Okiwi, near Day's Bay, at £12 10s each. Township of Maranui, Lyell's Bay — In block B, allotments containing 33 perches, 22 perches, 14 perches, and fronting Queen's Drive and Para Crescent, sold to Mr. F. de J. Clere for £125, bringing the total for sections sold in this township to upwards of £600. Messrs. Bethune & Co. have constant enquiries for all classes of property, more especially for good investments. To show the value of land in Wellington South, Messrs. Francis Sidey & Co., send us the result of their sale of building allotments, viz. : Owen-street, allotments 9 to 13, each 37ft x 122 ft, sold at £4 10s per foot; in Constable-street, allotment 1, 30ft x 108 ft, sold at £6 2s 6d per foot; and allotments Nos. 2 and 6, at £5 per foot. Nos. 3, 4, and 6 are for sale privately. The total amount realised for those sold was £1386 ss. Messrs. Sidey sold by auction on« Friday a leasehold property of half an acre of land, with four roomed cottage, on Russell-terrace, for £145, to Mr. M. Sheehy. The freehold property at Kilbirnie, over half an acre of ground, with six roomed dwellinghouse, was knocked down to Mr. G. A. Tattle for £340, and the Wadestown property was passed in, the bidding not reaching the reserve of £350. Op great moment to the cycling public. — At last our famous machines have arrived, ex Gothic — a shipmont of Spaldings, Baid to eclipse all other American machines. Orders for most of these have been booked, a few on hand for sale Buyers call early. HobartBird machines expected daily. Luke and Sons, Limited.— Advt. The Exhibition par excellence will be found at Mr. C. Smith's, the Cash Draper, Cubastreet. He is making a grand exhibition of French model millinery bonnets, 10s 6d to 19s 6d ; trimmed hato, from 3s lid to 17s Cd ; stylish costumes, 13s 6d to 10s 6d ; handsome tea gowns, 40s to 60s ; charming capes, 7s lid to 255 ; very handsome mantles, suitable for middle-aged and elderly ladies, 30s to 50s; 1 pretty blouses, la to 7s Cdj 4-button kid gloves, Is 6d to 5s 9tl ; choice belts, collarettes, and millinery ribbon. C. Smith, the Cash Dranar. f!iiY\«.«ti'»»* -— Adyt.