A POPULAR SUBURB.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 458, 17 March 1909, Page 9

A POPULAR SUBURB.

To-night, at 7.30 o'clock, a further subdivision o{ the Crofton Downs Estate, comprising 70 lots, will be submitted to auction at tho Exchange Land Mart of T. Kennedy Maodonald, Ltd. Tho sections rnugo in area from about a quarter acre to three-quarters of an aero. They comprise level and easy undulating land, and are situate immediately opposite the Ngaio (late Crofton) Hailwuy Station. Tho , terms of sulo aro specially liberal, viz., 10 per cent, deposit, and two instalments of 10 per cent, in 6ix and eighteen months, and tho balance in five years, with interest on unpaid purchase money at 5 per cent, l'lans can bo obtained from the auctioneers to-day by intending purchasers, desirous of utilising tho holi> day m an inspection of the various lots. Mr. 11. Tcates advertises in this issue that he is prepared to give information to any persons desirous of settling in Queensland. Owing to the lato arrival uf the Kilties today, and delay in getting their instrument/ , through, tho management have decided not to appear at St. Patrick's picnic, Lower Hull. Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co. will sell, in their rooms this afternoon, a': 1.30 o'clock, pianos and organs, as well as a largo qnantitj of furniture. Messrs. J. H. Bethuno and Co. announce In our auction columns that on Wednesday, March 21, at their rooms, under instructions from the Registrar of iho Supremo Court, they will sell by auction all that piece- of land situated in tho Karori district, containing 1 aero 9 3-10 perohes, being part jf Section .15 Karori District, and tho whole of the land in Certificate of Title, Volume 120, Folio 43, subject to Memorandum of Mortgage registered number 44G65. Titlo, Land Transfer. Full particulars may bo had on application to Messrs. Hcrdman and Kirkcaldie, solicitors, or Iho auctioneers. On tho Mine- date, also under instructions from the Registrar of iho Supreme Court, they will submit a desirablo freehold proporty in Walter Street. Tho land has a frontage of 33ft. by a dopth of fiGft., and on it stands a six-roomed dwWlinghouse, twostalled stablo, and washhouso. Conditions of salo may bo inspected at tho office of Iho Piiblia Trustee, or of tho auctioneers. Tho whining of a faithful dog, which sat alongside, of an opening in tho ice. through which his master had lost his life, led tj tho discovery of tho body of William Roy. who was drowned whilo skating across St. Catherine's Lnko, near Liverpool (N.S.). Roy, who was twenty years of ago, started to skato across tho lako, but fell into an opening and perishod,