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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 104, 30 October 1900, Page 8

TO-MOKROW, WEDNESDAY, 31st OCTOBER, 1900. At 1.30 o'clock. SALE OF SUPERIOR HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Hawker-street. nfyTACDONALp, WILSON AND CO. , -^ have received instructions from Mr. T. E. B. Russell, who is giving up housekeeping, to sell on the premises, No. 35, Hawker-street, us above — The whole of his superior household furniture and effects, contents of six rooms, all well furnished, comprising — Drawing - room — Handsome Crossley's Brussels carpot, goatskin hearthrug, Chippendale occasional table, octagon tea table and fancy cover, rattan couch and chairs, flower stand, easels, large wall mirror nicely framed, plush mantel-drape, fanoy flower pots, fender and irons, easel and picture, 4 paintings of flowers by local artists, photo gallery and, frames, music stand, Guipure laoe curtains, art serge do, lot of good ornaments, walnut overmantel with bevelled glass, figures, afternoon tea cups and plates, pictures, cushions, ferns and pots ; also, gas globes and occasional chairs, "upright grand piano by Berlich, Dresden, in walnut case, a very nice instrument • Dining-room— Good new linoleum 15 x 12, hoarthvug, fender and irons, screen, dining table, box couch, superior dinner waggon of unique design with mirror back, ■ platform rocker, 6 fanoy Austrian chairs, easy chairs, table and bookshelves, a number of 4 good now blinds, pictures, iace curtains, incandescent burner and jjas fittings, ornaments and vases, brackets, crockery, glassware, &c, &o. Contents of 3 bedrooms— Linoleum and carpets, superior b.m. d.i. bedstead and spring mattress, box couoh, pillows, blankets, sheets, quilts, curtains, chests drawers, s.i. bedsteads and mattresses, very superior duchease pair of new design, toiletware, tables, medicine chest, &c, &c. Hall— Linoleum, carpet, mats, hall table, piotures, Nbrass rods, mirror '.and brackets, tile umbrella stands, lot of ferns, including staer-horn ferns, flower-pots and flowers. Also, whole of the kitohen utensils. Special Note.— Everything in this houEe is nearly new and in perfect order. On view from 9 o'olock on morning of the sale. GREAT AUCTION SALE Of the Celebrated M'NAB'S GARDENS, LOWERS HUTT. Important to the Government, Publio Bodies, Speculators, Capitalists, Hotel Proprietors, and the General Publio. . . S THE MOST VALUABLE, SCIENTIFIC, AND ORNAMENTAL GARDENS AND GROUNDS, IN THE COLONY. IN THE EXCHANGE AUCTION ROOMS. No. 84, Lambton- -quay, Wellington. THURSDAY NEXT, Ist NOV., 1900, At 2.30 o'clock p.m. MACDONALD, WILSON, AND CO. are favoured with instructions to aell by public auction as aboveThat magnificent property at the Lower Hutt, so long and well known as M'Nab's Gardens. This grand properly contains nearly thirteen acres of the ' richest and most fertile land in the celebrated Hutt Valley, having frontages to the Waiwetu-rpad, Nikau-avenue in Ludlam Park, and the Opahu Creek. It is laid out as a. scientific and ornamental garden, orchard, kitchen garden, and small park available for cricket, bowling, tennis, etc., and has in addition a beautiful reserve of native bush. Fronting the magnificent lawn stands the family residence, upon whioh over £1200 was expended five years ago. The residence is built in the "Elizabethan stylo, and with its Cathedral glass, leaded windows, and quaint tables, has a delightful old-fashioned look. It contains 20 rooms, including drawingroom, two large and lofty diningroom3 capable of dining 80 guests, breakfast room, bedrooms, etc. Attached to the residence is a large conservatory. There are also two vineries filled with special varieties of vines. A short distance from the residence there will, be found complete and compact stables, containing seventeen loose boxes, harness rooms, coach-house, dairy, wash-houses, and all the necessary conveniences for so largo an establishment. A splendid artesian well, 68ft deep gives an unlimited supply of the purest water. The stables and a cottage are greatly used in connection with the meetings of the Wellington Racing Club (whose grounds are within a short distance of the property), and are estimated to return in rent and board and residence for those connected with the racing stables some £400 per annum. The history of the property ia an exceedingly interesting one. The land was selected by the late Mr. Ludlam, M.H.R., some fifty years ago, as the most choice spot on which to establish a unicfuo home. For some thirty years that gentleman dovoted a large capital and the best experience to creating a great scientific and ornamental garden. Every country was laid under contribution for trees, shrubs, and plants. No botanist in Great Britain, Europe, American Africa, and India, but was acquainted with Mr. Ludlam and his desires. Collector after collector was pressed into the service with the happiest results. The rarest and most beautiful of nature's treasures were transferred from distant climes to the lovely property in the Hutt Valley, until the reputation of the Gardens as one of the most extensive and valuable collections of living plants becamo world wide. Each succeeding year has shown how completely x this work of collection was done, because no year has yet passed without the garden displaying some new floral attraction — a rare tree or plant flowering for tho first time in 30 or 40 years. It is stated that tho late Mr. Ludlam spent no less than £25,000 upon the property. * After Mr. Ludlam's death the property was purchased by the late Mr. James M'Nab for use as a public garden. Mr. M'Nab'a experience as a high-class practical horticulturist enabled him to vastly improve and beautify it. This magnificent property would make a fitting home for a great University, while the garden would be found one of the most valuable adjuncts in connection with tho scientific botany of suoh an institution, or of a great State forest department. No greater boon could be conferred upon a community than the purchase of such a valuable estate as this by a publio-hearted citizen, and its presentation to the people for a great Convalescent Home, Recreation Grounds, or other benofioient purpose. To tho ordinary investor the property strongly appeals from another standpoint. Its value as a publio garden and private hotel (without license) is very great. Having been . kept in first-class order as a "going concern" it has a substantial and important value in that rospect. Not only is the residence in demand both in winter and rammer for those desiring charming semi-tropical surroundings and a delightful climate, but for spacial dinners, high teas, and- afternoon tea parties, the gardens under the present vigorous management are gaining golden opinions every day. As to its financial aspect tho gross receipts from the stables, sale of flowers and plants, and the charges paid by visitors represent an income of from £1500 to £2000 per annum, while the value of the property, if taken in hand and run on Continental or American lines, would be enormously increased. It must always bo remembered that M'Nab's is the favourite outing, not only for all tourists visiting the Empire City, but that on holidays, Sundays, and week days, it is a- source of enormous attraction to a large proportion of the 60,000 people of Wellington and | its Huburbs As a suburban auxiliary .to any ono N of Wellington's principal hotels, the property would prove of enormous value. Everything required by a large hotel, in the shape of fruit, vegetables, poultry, hams and bacon, is produced at the gardems, and tihe facilities for dealing with the extensive laundry requirements of a great hotel cannot be surpassed. Tho fact that tho new arrangements of dupli-