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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 888, 6 August 1910, Page 6

To-day, at 1.30 p.m., the furniture of a six-rooined liouso ■ will be sold by Messrs. J. AV. Braithwaitc and Co., Manners Street, entirely _ without reserve. . Included in the. list to .be offered are six. good singing canaries. .Messrs. Townsend and Paul, Ltd., will sell, by auction, on, Monday next, AugustSi a consignment of nursery stock,-rose trees, pot palms, etc.,'from the'Morsliead Company, of New Plymouth. Messrs. Harcoiirt and Co. draw attention to their ■ replaced list, of city and suburban residential properties for sale advertised in this issue. ( . . ' . Messrs. AV. H. Tur.ibull and Co.'insertin this issue their change list of city pro-perties,-and' the attention of purchasers' is specially directed to a. first-class-pio-perty which they have. for sale in Mount .Victoria. Tenders are invited by the . AVellington City Corporation for the supply and delivery ol poles and planks for. the Electric Lighting Department. . Two men who are well known in New York as the proprietors of sin' old-fash-ioned hotel set a~ new fashion in progressive dinners recently,. They entertained a party of guests'at a different hotel for cach course of tlio dinner. Beginning at their own hotel, the, hosts provided the oysters, the party sitting down at a fullylaid table.. As soon as tho bivalves were disposed of the party took two taxi-cabs and went .to the next, hotel on the list for soup. A waiter telephoned to the next stopping-place, so thai there Was no delay. So it went through all the'courses to coK'oo and liqueurs. Finger-glasses are • never placed on the dinner-table when members of the Royal l>mijy are present.