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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 47, 25 February 1914, Page 2

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♦ MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE RETURN AUSTRALIAN MATCH. At a meeting of the Management Committee of the Wellington Cricket Association last evening, advice. was received from the New Zealand Cricket Council that a proposal for a return match with the Australians on 20th and 21st March had been approved. A letter was received from Mr. D. Reese (Christchurch), stating that he would bring a strong Canterbury team to play Wellington on Good Friday, Easter Saturday, and Eastei' Monday (10th, 11th, and 13th, April). , • It was decided to asil permission of the .City Council to make a charge for both matches, The Basin Reserve being in use by the Athletic Association on Saturday next, senior matches will be played oti the Wellington College ground. AUCTION & PKOPERTY SALES The auction sale of the wholjs of the land at Day's Bay has been fixed for Wednesday, 11th March, at Messrs. W. H. Turnbull ahd Co.'s auction room, 27, Panama-street, at 8 p.m. An advertisement in another column shows that th© whole of the nativie forest, <fompriß« ing 620 acres, is being offered for sale, together with the pavilion, having a frontagie of about 120 ft, sixteen sections, perfectly loviel, which is the subdivision of the hockey ground, fourteen sections with frontage to Pitoitoi-road, thirty sectiohs frontihg Kotari-ioad and ICovi-mako-road. There are two triangular sections with frontages of 213 ft <xicti to Day's Bay«road, one of these being a comer section and having the eaino frontage to Ferry-road. Platts will bi> ready on Saturday morning, and will be- distributed from the office of the auctioneers, Messrs. W. H. Turnbull and Co., Panama-street, and at the F«rry Wharf on Saturday. Messrs.- E. Johnston and Co. will well to-morrow, commencing at 10.30, shop fittings, on the premises, 61, Willi«« street. At 11 o'clock they will hold a sale of household furniture and effects on the premises, No. 76, Elli^e-street. At 2 o'clock they will hold a, sale of household furniture at the residence, No. 178, Oriental Bay. On Friday rnorh* ing, commencing at 11 o'clock, they will hold a sale of household furniture. Messrs. Thomson and Brown will hold an auction sa.Ve of household furniture and effects at their ,. rooms, 35, Cuba, street, to-morrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co. will hold a sale- of shop showcase* . ana furniture at tho premises, 96, Viyian-street, on Friday, at 11 a.m. At the residence, 5, Patterson-street, on Friday, at 1.30, they will -sell ■ furnishings, including Bohm piano. At' 2 o'clock on Saturday the firm will sell tho plant and stock of Messrs. Norling and Quinne, cabinetmakers, Khandallah. A sale, of dairy > stock, comprising ten cows, also ten acr«s of land next to Maaon'si Gardens, Taita, under instructions from the Public Trustee, in the estate of William Scott Milne, will be held at 11 o'clock. Messrs. Hareotirt and Co. will hold a «ale of furniture, on the premises, No. 18, Burnetevivoiitie, on Tuesday, at 2 p.m., under instructions from Mr. Booth. The house will be open for inspection on the morning of the sale. On Wednesday, 11th March, at 3 p.m., the firm will sell a seaside property having a frontage of lßsft to the Marine Parade, Woi-aer Bay. by a depth of 132 ft, together with a three-roomed cottage and fiix-roomed house eiieeted thereon, and known a* "Llandudno." On tho same date, in conjunction with Loiigmore and Co.. the firm will sell, at 3 p.m., two freehold city properties, having a frontago of 33ft to Dixon-atreet, by a depth of 75ft, and known as 'Nos. 102 and 104, Dixon-streiet.