BUSINESS NOTES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4307, 16 March 1901, Page 7

BUSINESS NOTES.

Intending purchasers of crockery are invited to inspect new wares ex Kumara at Winton and McLauchlan’s, Cuba street. The excursion steamer Duchess will run to Day’s Bay to-day and tomorrow and on Monday (St. Patrick’s Day) in the morning and afternoons, at the usual hours. Messrs Turnbull. Watkins and Williams notify that they have been instructed to sell privately, on account of various owners, a selected lot of properties at very low prices, principally owing to those interested leaving the city. The firm also calls the intention of investors to a fine lot of properties to be sold at very low reserves in the most valuable parts of the city, on the 26th inst Plans and particulars may be, had upon application to the auctioneers at.their offices, 3, Panama street, Messrs A. R. Meeoh and Co. will sell at their rooms at 1 p.m. to-day a lot of useful furniture, glass sashes and doors, jewellery, and boots, Japanese and fancy ware, a lollie-making machine, a bicycle and 20 cases of apples. The Inspector of Asylums calls for tenders for blankets, flannels,, clothing, drapery, boots, shoes, leather etc. ’ Messrs Sidey and Co. will sell on tho pre-» mises, Rintoul street, at 11 a.in. to-day a horse, cart and harness, also contents of bakehouse and shop. Messrs P. R. Jackson and Co. will hold their usual sale of stock at Johnsonville on Tuesday. The victualling store officer at Sydney calls for tenders for the supply of 150,000 lbs of salt pork, 80,0001bs of salt beef, and IO.OOOIbs of salt suet.

Messrs Williams and Kettle will sell at Hastings on Friday. March 22nd, 18 yearling and two-year-old thoroughbreds, on acacconnt of Mr S. H. Gollan. The majority of the horses are by Captain Webb and Jet ’dEan.

Tenders are invited until March 30th for the freehold land, buildings, plant, machinery and stock-in-trade in connection with the tannery and grindery business carried on by C. and J. Ooombs, Ltd., at the North-east Valley and Princes street, Dunedin. On the 21st' inst. Messrs Macdonald, Wilson and Co. will .offer at auction the charming family residence at the Hutt, known as Waiwera. The house is an up-to-date six-roomed one, with all the latest conveniences and outhouses, standing on eleven acres of ground, laid out partly as a landscape garden and partly as an orchard, containing over 300 trees. The terms are exceptionally liberal. On the same day they will sell three high-class dwellinghonses having a frontage of 55ft to Abel Smith street and adjoining the Te Aro tennis courts. They are leased at £GS per annum. They will also offer two dwellinghousea having a frontage of 100 ft to Abel Smith street and 75? t to St. John's street. These houses are occupied by Messrs Hustwick and Brace, and rented at ,£l5O per annum. On the 28th the firm will sell a dairy and sheep farm of 613 acres near Otaki. On the 22nd inst. at their rooms. Lambton anay, Messrs Harcourt and Co. will submit at auction the large and beautifully situated residence "Tipuna,” Grant road, containing sixteen rooms on about three-quarters of an acre of land. It commands an excellent view of the city and harbour, has every convenience and is now in excellent repair. They will also sell a six-roomed house close to the Hutt railway station on land having a frontage of 85ft to Parliament street, bv a depth varying from 124 ft to 137 ft. The house is well-built and in excellent repair. At the same time they will offer the desirable seven-roomed residence. No. 55. Tinakori road, near May street, on land having a frontage of stft Sin by a depth of 100 ft. On the 12th April they will submit 1800 acres of drained swamp in the Mungaroa Valley, two and a half miles from Wallacoville station. This land is very rich and cannot he surpassed for dairy farming and will he sold-in 50-acre sections on very easy terms to suit small capitalists. Plans are in preparation and can bo obtained from tbe auctioneers. Messrs Abraham and Williams will hold a sale of stock at Manakau to-day. Messrs Abraham and Williams will sell oni March 25th at Mr H. Moffat's farm on the Longhnm-Kairanga road 54 selected dairy cows, and several horses. On Thursday next the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency will hold a sale of stock at Palmerston North.