GREAT AUCTION SALE. £2000 WO * TH £2000 UNREDEEMED PLEDGES WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST RESERVE. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, 2nd and 3rd MARCH. 1911. Commencing at 11 o'clock each day. BY ORDER OF THE ADMINISTRATORS IN THE ESTATE OF THE LATE JOSEPH METZ, OF THE MONT DE PIETE PAWN OFFICE, TARANAKI-PLACE. THE MOST EXTENSIVE SALE OF UNREDEEMED PLEDGES EVER HELD IN THE CITY % OF WELLINGTON. AS THE ESTATE 'MUST BE REALISED, EVERY LOT IS FOR POSITIVE SALE. T KENNEDY MACDONALD, LTD., • have received instructions from the Administrators in the Estate of the lato Joseph Metz, to sell at their rooms, 157, Lambton-quay, as above — £OAAA WORTH OF UNREDEEMAIIJXJy ED PLEDGES, full details of which appeared iri last Saturday's Post. A few of the special lots include 18cfc gold repeating chronograph, theodolite, 10 cameras, d.b. hammerless gun (cost 60 guineas), c.p. and silverware, etc. Thia is the first of a series of Salos, to bo held monthly, and every article must be sold regardless of cost, to wind up the estate. T. KENNEDY MACDONALD, LTD., Auctioneers, 157, Lambion-quay. TO-MORROW, WEDNESDAY, Ist MARCH, 1911, At 2.30 p.m. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO MERCHANTS, FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE COMPANIES, TRUSTEES AND INVESTORS. MAGNIFICENT FREEHOLD PROPERTY (In the Heart of the Empire City). SUBSTANTIALLY-BUILT BUSINESS PREMISES; Nos. 113 and 115, CUSTOMHOUSEQUAY, WELLINGTON (Opposite the Bank of New Zealand). MESSRS. J. H. BETHUNE AND CO. and MESSRS. HARCOURT AND CO. (in conjunction) have been favoured with instructions from the Trustees of the Australian Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society, Ltd., to sell by auction at Messrs. Harcourt and Co.'s Sale Rooms, Panama-street, Wellington, on WEDNESDAY, Ist MARCH, 1911, At 2.30 p.m.— THAT CENTRALLY - SITUATED FREEHOLD PROPERTY part of Section No. 20, Reclaimed Land, Wellington, having a frontage of 30ft to CUSTOM-HOUSE-QUAY by a depth therefrom of 108 ft 6in (both more or less), subject to light and air areas at ths back and on the northern side, together with the Counting House and Offices thereon, of 3 floors! <j,nd basement, with extensive strongroom accommodation, solidly built foundations, and walls of brick and concrete reinforced with steel. The interior is elaborately though not lavishly finished with tiled vestibule, hall and toilet rooms, and polished cedar woodwork throughout the ground floor. The front elevation is constructed of Sj'dney sandstone, specially imported, being the iirsfc building 'in the city eiected with this stone. The basement has been made damp and water proof by the use of Neuchatel asphalt. With the property will be sold fittings, counter, desks, etc., in the Counting House, shelves and presses in the ground floor strongroom, aiM 8 Milner's safes set in the walls of the private offices. The above building was designed by Messrs. Turnbull and Son, architects, and is one of the most solidly built business blocks in the city, and architecturally most up to date in its planning arrangements and fittings. The unique situation, close to the junction of four of the principal streets N of the city, makes the properly one of the most desirable and suitable for all classes of business in Wellington. Tha general progress of the city must of necessity add to the value of this splen-didly-situated Freehold. Values of central business properties in Wellington have within the past two years been well maintained, and there is every prospect of a substantial advance in Wellington's leading streets in the near future. TERMS exceptionally liberal. For further particulars, plans, and conditions of sale, apply to MESSRS. YOUNG AND TRIPE, Solicitors, 17, Grey-street ; MESSRS. HARCOURT AND CO., 195, Lambton-quay ; MESSRS. J. H. BETHUNE AND CO., 156, Feaiherston-street. Auctioneers. ' THURSDAY, 2nd MARCH, 1911,At 11 o'clock. BUILDINGS FOR REMOVAL. WF. SHORTT, LTD., ha^ been • favoured with instructions to sell on the premises, corner of Old Customhouse and Willis streets — 4 WOOD and BRICK SHOPS, for removal. For particulars and conditions, apply to THE AUCTIONEERS. HOTEL FOR SALE. IMMEDIATE PURCHASER WANTED T EASE, 7 years, rent £8, trade- £80 per -LJ week ; price for goodwill £750 only, stock and furniture at valuation ; cash required £800 ; nothing less will be accepted ; absolutely safe electorate ; house splendidly furnished; £1000 a year profit. Apply to __J FIDE, P.O. Nelson TSTE have a PUCHASER for SMALL V DAIRY FARM, able to pay about £300 deport; also PURCHASER for SHEEP FARM, 6.C0 aei2S. about £800 cash. Reply immediately to W. CLARKSON AND CO., Feilding. A^E~D7^Ca7iKmter r s ToolsT A cash discount of 10 per cent, from catalogue prices; full stocks. The Sims Hardware Co.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 49, 28 February 1911, Page 10
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