HOTELS SOLD.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 86, 12 April 1911, Page 2

HOTELS SOLD.

Messrs. Dwan Bros., Willis-street, report having sold the lease, goodwill, and furniture of the Princess Theatre IJctel, Wellington, to Mr. Thos. Palmer, late of Hokitika ; Mr. Berfci's interest in the lease, goodwill, etc., of the Star Hotel, Addington, to Mr. Wingham, late of 'the Bluff; Mr. Guthrie's interest in the lease, goodwill, etc., of the Melhven flotei, lUethven, to Mr. T. Twcmey, late of Temnka; Mrs. Manscn's interest in tho Ship Hotel, the Port, Nelson, to Mr. Chu-id^e, late cf Wellington; Iho Telegraph Hotel, Otaki,,te> Mr. J. A. Coog.m ; Mr. lFammoiid's interest ia tin lease and fuinilurs cf the HunterviHe HoLel_ to Mr. Arthur Weeks, lats of the Hibernian Hotel, Oncaunga; Mr. Richard Tmnbull's interest in the Occidental, PalmeMoa Ncrth, to Z\b:. J. T. Jlkhvcod, It'.ts of the Masonic i Hotel. Havelock; tho k.ica, etc., cf the ! Evening Star llot:l, fc'ycui-ey, i,o Mi. James F.mel, of Syrtnsy j "vh3 Icaco, "«., of Tn,-.!?crah Lakes Hotel, Sydney, to Mr. i,r.ndy, of Sydney. An interesting, if rather scientific, address \,i,s delivered by l-'rciVcmr Pickcn, of Victoria College, to the Wellington Philosophical Society lr.-;t evening in the -Dominion Museum. There was a fairly kr^-3 attendance, chiefly ol membprs of *the wtionumical section. The professor illustrated the mathematical b.-.iis of astronomy in $p]iericai trigonometry, which was tlie geometry of the heaveno, just a& plr.no trigonometry wr.i the geometry "cf the terrestrial globe, lie defined "the great circle as the primary idea, and e:.ecuted a few simple problems on the blackboard to show tho main principles applied t« astronomy. Subsequently members present joined in a technical discussion of points that had K-rieen. A vote of thanks was accorded the professor for his addrere. 'WAIRONGOA' NATURAL MINERAL WATER Stimulates digestion, cures constipation, banishes gout and rheumatism, and clears the system generally if partaken of regularly. It is a naturally carbonated water —tho only ono _in Australasia— and the latest medical dictum avers" that naturally carbonated water plays a wonderful part in keeping tho human system free from disease. T. and W. Young, wholesale agents, 'Wellington.— Adyti