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New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 3006, 18 December 1896, Page 3

Mr W. F. Shortt will hold a salo of furniture, &o.‘ at hia auction rooms to-day. Messrs 11. and J. BailUo have a large assortment of colonial editions of both new and well-known authors’ books on hand, which will doubtless bo appreciated by the reading public. There will no doubt bo n large attendance of buyers at Messrs J. H. Bethune and Co.’a rooms, Feathcraton street, to-day, when that lirm will submit to the hammer four valuable blocks of freehold land, containing together (our and a half acres, fronting Hawker street, McFarlane street, Clyde quay and Oriental terrace, being subdivisions of 'the well - known Clyde Cliff property. The terms of sale are extremely liberal, affording an exceptional opportunity for investors to acquire these charming freeholds for subdivisional purposes. CHRISTMAS mHEB CHRISTMAS JL.RES AT THE D.I.C. SANTA CLAUS presides in person daily at the Christmas Tree. To obviate crashing and to facilitate selection, all TOYS hare been transferred to the Furniture Boom, -where the Christmas Tree is also located. A. A. CORRIGAN, Manager. D.1.C., .WELLINGTON. OPENING OF NEW SHOWROOM. THE Opening of the Now Showroom will be inaugurated by the display of Japanese Curios AND Japanese .Furniture, Which have been selected by the D.I.C. Agent at Yokohama. All the goods are of good serviceable quality. We draw special attention to the prices of those goods. A. A. CORRIGAN, Manager. 11. HALLENSTEIN, Chairman. 101 LEGAL HOLIDAYS. THE Christmas Holidays to be observed by Solicitors practising in the city will bo from 1 o'clock on 24th instant to the rooming of 4th January. P. HARRISON, Secretary, 174 Wellington District Law Society, WELLINGTON HARBOUR BOARD. THIS is to notify that at a Special Meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board, held on Thursday, the 17th day of December, 1896, at a quarter-past 2 o'clock in tbo afternoon, certain new bylaws were submitted to, adopted and passed by tbo said Board, and that such by-laws will come into force on the Ist day of January, 1897. Such by-laws have been printed, and lie open for public inspeotion at tbo offices of the Board during office hours. The said by-laws relate amongst other things to charges on hemp and timber, cranes, towarro of vessels, steam sirens, dangerous goods, drivnfc of vehicles, cattle, &c. Dated tbia 17th day tfE December. 1898. WILLIAM fekguson, Secretary. Harbonrßoard Offlcee, Wellington, 176