PROPERTY SALE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1643, 9 January 1913, Page 8

PROPERTY SALE.

>■; —v ' Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. held a ■property auction at their-'rooms yesterday, when the property of. Mrs. S; C. Barraud, of Muritai, was sold to Mr. William Allan for -XBl5. . ■■'. .' \ Messrs. Young and-Jacks, 10 Durham Street, Auckland, are the. agents for the sale of three small farms ',in and .about Auckland. 1 ..' ; Mr. S. : George Nathan, estate agent, 113-115 Customhouse Quay, has for. sale in the Palmerston North district a 1451acrb sheep farm. Pull particulars may be had from the agent. • ' Tho New. Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coinpariy will hold their usual ■ stock, salo at Pahautanui on Thursday, January ,16, at 1.80 p.m. : It; should be noted that the sale is to be held on January,lG, instead of on January 15; Says'our Masterton'correspondent :— Tho search for the bodies of tho four men who were drowned in,the.launch fatality off Akitio on New .Year's Day was continued to-day, The boot of one of the missing men has come ashore, but, otherwise, nothing has been found. It is consildored certain that the - launch was swamped, and went down with all hands. ' Hugo Arnot, the historian-of Edinburgh, was one day waited upon by, a-woman who requested him to advise ner how she might best get rid of an admirer whose importunities causeel her annoyance. The ; woman wns the reverse of fascinating, and Arnot, being, indisposed to flatter her vanity, Tcplied, "Ob, you had better marry the fellow." "Marry him," replied tho astonished woman; '.'I would . see him hanged first." "Marry him then," persisted the humorist, "and I'll bet he'll soon hang himself." ' For Bronchial' Coughs and Colds, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is. 6d. Proceedings at the Durban Circuit Court were recently suspended for half an hour while the Advocatc-General went home to change his waistcoat, the Jiuige having objected to the faucy pattern of the.one he was wearing,