BUSINESS NOTES

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4291, 26 February 1901, Page 7

BUSINESS NOTES

Tenders are invited for the delivery of stores to the. Government Railways for the period of a year. A notice! to consignees of poods by the Rimutaka appears in this issue. The travelling public will receive every attention at the well-known Terminus Hotel, New Plymouth, which is pleasantly situated within three minutes’ walk of the railway station.

Tho valuation, lists of the city are now ready and open fox - inspection at the Corporation, offices. All objections should be made by March 15 th. Tho valuation lists arq__ head v for the portions of Melrose and .Karori boroughs which are declared to. he subject to special rates for drainage purposes. Buyers of sheep will have mi opportunity of replenishing tneir flocks at the clearing sale on Mr Goss’s fan;;, Upper Belmont, to-morrow, at oue p.m. Messrs Macdonald, Wilson am> Co. are conducting the said, which is an' unreserved one, as Mr Goss has sold ins farm, and the new proprietor will enter into possession shortly. A number of new entries are added to the list.^ In this issue will be found an advertisement from Mr F. Brooking, land agent, etc., Stratford- It is interesting and gratifying to learn hew highly this journal is prized as an advertising medium by our country 'clients 1 . To quote Mr Brookiug’s own words; ‘.T have never inserted an advertisement in your paper, no matter what the subject, without eliciting inquiries, and from places oftetn unheard of, still more junthouglit of._ It speaks well for the larea of your circulation when I say that inquiries have come from as far North las the Thames, far East as Gisborne, ; and from such unheard* of places—to jus—as Baumai, Te Autc, Campbelljtowii, together with a number of others 11 should judge equally important,'’ j A special exhibition of pianos and lorgaus at the Dresden Company will 'commence to-day. ! Applications are invited for the position of secretary to the Wellington Racing Club. j The share-list of the Jubilee Gold■mining Company will close at 5 p in. 'to-morrow.

An advertisement appears in this is;suo with reference to Salmond and ;Gluokstein’s Gold Make Cigarettes. ; Warnnck and Adkin announce their first show of autumn goods, commencing from to-day. ; Messrs Smith and Smith Lave just landed, ex s.s. Pakeha, a largo assortment of Winsor and Newton’s artists’ materials, and invite purchasers to inspect their stock. • i Investors, speculators and others are specially reminded of the sale of valuable freehold landed properties to be held by Messrs J. H. Bethuue and Co. at thoir rooms, Featherston street, today, at .2.30 p.m., when they will sell by instructions from, Messrs Wilkins and Field, owing, to the retirement from business of the senior partner, Mr Thomas Field, their exceptionally' valuable freehold property, part of section No. 207, City of Wellington, having the frontage of 73ft to Manners street, 146 ft to Farish street and 104 ft to St. -Hill street, together with tho " extensive two-story shop and warehouse Nos. §2 and 34, Manners street, erected thereon, now occupied by Messrs Wilkins and Field as a wholesale a’ld retail ironmongery establishment. This rentproducing freehold is located in the heart of the .main business thoroughfare of Wellington, in close proximity to the leading wholesale and retail business premises. The building affords every facility for carrying on a large business, or could he sub-divided into Several retail shops. A large portion of tho purchase-money may remain on mortgage at 4Jr per Cent, per annum. Immediately after the above, Messrs Bethune and Co. will also sell bjr instructions from the owner, a desirable block of ten acres freehold land in the township of Paraparaiunn, having long frontages to Hinemoa street and Tongariro street, opposite the railway station; six acres are perfectly level, and laid out as orchard, containing about 1700 imported fruit trees, from eleven to thirteen years, old, the remaining four acres being in grass, while there is a small dwellinghouse of three rooms. This property is in a genial and healthy climate within easy distance of Wellington.

■ Messrs F. 11. Jackson and Co. v;ill sell stock at Johnsonville. at 11 a.in. today.

; The attention of the travelling public is drawn to Mrs Scherfrs advertisement of the Glenalvon Private Hotel, Symonds street, Auckland. The bonsais

Well situated in largo grounds, containing a shrubbery, fernery, gardens, etc., with a magnificent view of the harbour, and k within ten minutes’'walk of the G.F.d.