PROPERTY SALE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1912, Page 5

PROPERTY SALE.

The sale of Mrs Tilly's house and land at Springlands on Wednesday by Messrs Griffiths and Son, being with a genuine determination to sell, should attract a number, of buyers. By today's advertisement the terms are announced, and they are made even more easy than is usual, viz., 10 per cent cash, balance at 5 ncr cent. The residence is to be sold with an acre of land, which is very nicely planted, and as the house is in first-class order and almost new it should be keenly sought after. The building sites are so good that they ate bound fa> attractbidders, ■■ and: Jshould all sell readily* The reserves have been fixed at a low figure. The furniture will also be sold on Wednesday next.

A schoolhouse adorned with a bell was erected on one of the islands of the Melanesian Mission not(very long ago. An elderly native cultivated a passion for the sound of the tinkling metal, and he would frequently steal up to the building for the joy of pulling the rope which set the bell aringing. Then the villagers would laugh at him, and such was the dire effect of this ridicule that the old fellow chopped down the supports of the bell, burnt the building and, carrying off his brass idol, he buried it. "That was the end of the school on the island for some considerable time," said the Roy. T. P. Williams in illustrating to an Auckland audience difficulties of the Melanesian Mission.