"I HOPE YOU MAY DISAGREE WITH THEM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 28 October 1916, Page 9

"I HOPE YOU MAY DISAGREE WITH THEM

SELWYN AND SYDNEY SMITH. When Selwyn, the famous divine, sailed for New Zealand, in the early days of its settlement, Sydney Smith said: "(ioodbye, my dear Selwyn. 1 wish you success iii New Zealand— if the Maoris do eat you—why, 1 hope you may disagree with them!" The ruin's of Selwyn's church, by the way, may still be seen. They are close to what will soon be Auckland's new suburb, the beautiful Selwyn Abbey Kstate, on the main St. Hcliers Bay Road, This magnificent property, so near the seaside, and which will yet be, when the , new line is completed, within a few minutes' rail journey of Queen Street, has been cut up into lovely building allotments and farmlets, and which will be auctioned on Friday evening next, "V'\ember 3, at the 7.30 p.m., at the Chamber of Commerce, Swanson Street, the auctioneer being Mr. A. L. Raven. The sections are likely to go at "into moderate prices, but those who get any of them will be fortunate, because so soon as the new railway station (to be erected ••lose to Selwyn Abbey Estate) is finished these allotments are bound to be worm » lot of money. ~. . There's going to bo a crowd ■*«•£• on Friday evening next. Speculators ha« got their eye on these , terms of sale aro so easy thoy would temp* anybody, < "_.,. /;