The Great Taine Estate, Lower Hutt.

Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 123, 8 November 1902, Page 13

The Great Taine Estate, Lower Hutt.

Oui readers will be inteiested in perusing the adveitisement which appeals in this issue of the celebrated Taine Estate, in the borough of the Lower Hutt. The Taine Estate has been held for nearly sixty years by Mi. James Taine, who is described in the original Crown Grant as James Tame, of London, gentleman On his arrival from London in the early forties Mr. Taine began business in Wellington as one of its merchants, and has retained possession of his Hutt property fiom those days until the present time. Dm ing the last few months he has been making various family settlements, and has transferred this particular property of 105J acies to some members of his family. * * * The first portion of the sub-division of the Estate will be offered for sale by public auction by Messrs. Macdonald, Wilson and Co., in their Exchange Land Auction Kooms, Lambton-quay, Wellington, on Thursday, 27th November. The propeity has a unique value aiising from the fact that it lies in the very heart of the Borough and that its frontages to the main load form a continuation of the present business aiea of the Hutt, the lands adjoining having lecently been sold at £13 per foot fiontage * * * The Sub-divisions number 134 and none of them aie less than one-eiphth of an acre m area, with an abundant air-space for the erection of dwellings. The sale is one which will excite widespread interest, not only in the Hutt itself, but in the City of Wellington. • • # The details respecting the piopeity and the story of the estate are veiy fully set forth in the advertisement in our columns. The advertisement itself is a word picture of the advantages of seeming a residential site in the valley of the Lower Hutt

Messrs. Mackie and Co , distillers of the well-known White Horse Cellar whisky, have presented through their agents (Messrs. E. T. Taylor and Co.) a handsome silver tea and coffee service for competition amongst the amateur swimming clubs of Wellington. It is interesting to learn that Messrs. Mackie and Co. are great supporters of amateur sport of all kinds, and several members of the firm have themselves won distinction in one or another branch of athletics —Mr. Peter Mackie, for instance, is one of the foremost golf players m the United Kingdom. The service is at present on exhibition in the window of Mr. F. Cohen, Willis-street.