EXTRA EDITION,

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 98, 22 October 1904, Page 6

EXTRA EDITION,

One of the two mild sensations which enlivened the proceedings in the Legislative Council last night, during the last day of the Committee stage of the LicenBing Bill, concerned the bona. fide traveller, and, after an interesting discussion, the Council solved the problem of dealing with this elusive personality by abolishing him. The inaugural meeting of the Political Labour League was held last evening, and a resolution was passed establishing a central branch of the League here. Mr. W. F. Shortt will hold an unreserved sale of pottery and earthenware at his mart, WiHis-street, on Monday at 2 o'olock. The steam launch Moturoa will run excursions to H.M.S. Psyche to-morrow as advertised. The s.s. Duchess will run excursions to Day's Bay to-morrow at 10.15 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. Full timetable appear^ in another column. Messrs. W. Lingard and Co. give full particulars elsewhere- of the sections they are to offer for sale on the 3rd of next month. A wide range of selection is "offered, and the properties will no doubt receive the attention of investors. ' A noti«e to members of the Wellington Slaughtermen's Industrial Union of Workers appears in this issue. The whole of the York Bay Estate is now subdivided and comprises some fortythree sections, ranging from a quarter-acre to 100 acres in extent. The property is situated, between Day's Bay and LowTy Bay. Since the beginning of this year the estate has been roaded. Several houses have been built, and some are now in course of erection. As suitable building ( land on this side of the harbour is now ' getting scarce, it is anticipated that the sections will find a ready sale. Free trips by Messrs. Cudby Bros.' coach will be run from Day's Bay to York Bay on Sunday, Wednesday, and Saturday next. Full particulars are advertised and intending purchasers are requested to send for plans and details to the auctioneers, Messrs. W. H. Turnbull and Co. Representatives of the firm will be on the ground to assist probable buyers in tho selection of sections. A changed list of properties for sale by Meiwrs. W. H. Turnbull and Co. will be found elsewhere. Messrs. Harcourt and Co. announce the following auction sales of properties to be held at their rooms, 48, Lambton-quay: — On Friday, 28th October, at 2.30 p.m., sections in Ghuznee and Marion streets, suitable for business sites. Plan and particulars may be had on application to the firm. F6llowing this- sale they will submit a section together with, the six-roomed dwelling thereon and known as No. 12, Ellice-3treot ; also properties situate in Fernhill-terrace. Attention is also drawn to their fresh list of freehold and leasehold properties which appears in this issue. Messrs. SSacdonaldj Wilson and Co. di- j rect attention to their auction sales announced to-day. This ovening, at 7.30 o'clook, at St. Augustine's Schoolroom, Petone, tho firm will hold a sale of properties which, owing to the inclemency of the weather, was postponed from last week. On Monday next, art 11 o'clock, at the premises of Mr. H. T. KokemuH-er, No. 165, Lambton-quay, the whole of his pork butchery plant and stock, also the household furniture, etc., as dertailed. On Tuesday, at the premises of Mr. A. Colquhown, Hutt-road, Hectors-lane, Petone, at 1 o'clock, the whole of the dairy stock and plant, as detailed in the advertisement. On Wednesday, at their mart, household furniture, etc. On the 3rd November, landed properties, for which date they now advertise, under instructions from Mr. W. J. Jorgenson, the sale of his bungalow residence, containing eight rooms and conveniences, together with four and three-quarter acres, laid out as garden, lawn, and paddock, situate at the Lower Hutt. Also a block of land, nearly two acres, with residence, situate Karori-cres-cent, Tinakori-road, to close an estate account; newly erected residence, containing six rooms, situate Clyde-quay ; corner block of land of ten and a-haH acres, situate Island Bay, aa the Queen's Drive. On the 14th November the firm w9I sub- j mit eighty-five building sections situate ! immediately opposite the WaHaceville railway station, Trenthani,' fall details of which appear, and plans can be had on application. On the 16th November the Bannatyne Estate, Karori, comprising 150 sections, ranging in area from onte-eighth of an acre to two and a-half acres. A lengthy advertisement, giving full delans, is inserterd, and lithographic plans will be available on Tuesday next. In the middle of November tjie firm will sabmit thirtysix villa building sections situate immediately opposite the electrio tramway buildings, and adjoining Nowtown Park, having frontages to Mansfield, Daniel, and Roy streets, lithographic plans of which nre being prepared. Under instructions from Mr. William Tompsitt, who is about to leave Wellington, the firm will submit to auction on tho 24tb. November the whole of bis city and country properties, ooraprising the corner block of land, Char-lotte-street and Sydney-street, subdivided into seven sections, &s detailed ; block of land, Sydney-stroet, 66ft x 95ft, with the •icwly-erected brick residences thereon, containing nine and seven rooms respectively ; family residence adjoining, containing twen*y4wo rooms, with land 57 x 120 ; property, Molosworth-streot, next Mr. Leighton's boot shop, having a frontage of 29ft by a depth of 132 f t; corner business block, with residence and cottage, having a frontage of 73ft to Ingesirestreet and 103 ft along Ingesfcre-place ; property, Ingestre-street, with land 39ft x 104 ft 7in, with brick residence thereon ; family residence, Abel Smith-street, containing ten rooms, with land 69ft 6in by a depth of 94ft, an^l a dairy farm property, containing 292 acres, situated at Urenui, Waitara. Very full details are given in the advertisements appearing. The firm's usual list of properties -for priTito sale annanrs.

Messrs. Bethune and Co. have several announcements in our auction columns. They will hold a sale of properties at their rooms, Featherston-street, on Wednesday, 26th inst., at 2.30 p.m. On that date they will submit, under instructions from tho trustees in the estate of the late Elizabeth Heath, the property known as Gear Island, Lower Hutt, containing earns 108 acres of river flat land. The sale will bo subject to an existing lease at £160 per annum, which runs oat on 25th September, 1910. Other properties to which special attention is called include a leasehold with a^ frontage to Cuba-street, with two shops and dwellings, and land having a frontage to Abel Smith-street, with shops and dwellings. A central freehold property, situated in Roxburgh-street, with four-roomed house, is also offered. Twelve allotments at Seatoun extension, Worser Bay, are to be offered on the 2nd prox. On the 7th and Bth November the firm is to hold a sale of 950 volumes of books from one of the leading firms of booksellers and exporters at Home. The books will be on view from Friday next. Catalogues will bo posted to any address on application. Messrs. Bethune and Co. also insert an amended list of business and residential properties which they have on their books for private sale and to let. Messrs. Laery and Co. will sell on Monday, at 2.30, flour, pollard, wheat, etc, ex La Bella. Messrs. Baker Bros, call attention to their replace advertisement of properties for sale. The Wellington Auctioneering Company is advertising for Monday and Tuesday next, 24th and 25th October, a sale of furniture and effects at their rooms, 49, Lambton-quay. Messrs. Levion, Shallcrass and Co. draw j attention to the sale of oats and pollard, saved from the La Bella, to be held attheii mart, Willis-street, on Monday morning, at 11 o'clock. Two well-known properties in the Manawatu district are in the market to be sold by Messrs. Abraham and Williams (in, con- j junction with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency at Palinerston North) on Saturday, sth November. The first is the. Edinkillie Park Estate, two and a half miles from the town of Palmeratoo, comprising 721 acres, and the other is the Waituna Stanway Estate, of 316 acres, four miles from Halcombe.