Sale of Business Premises, Lambton Quay.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 90, 22 March 1902, Page 17

Sale of Business Premises, Lamb ton Quay.

It will be been by ad\ eitisement elsewhere that Messrs Macdonakl, "Wilson, and Co. have received instructions to submit to public auction on Thursday 3rd April next, a.t then rooms at 230 o'clock one of the most \ aluable comer fieehoild blocks of land and business premises m the ci^ The land has frontages of 122 feet to Lambton Quay 115 feet to Wellington Terrace, and 21(> feet to Woodw aid-street. The buildings on the land aie now occupied by Messrs. Barber and Co., Messrs Jenkins and Mack, Mr J. D Slater Mis. Cross, Mr Jew and others. The rentals a* present received from the pro-

peat\ amount to LLO(K) per annum, m(loaMtig 111 various proportions until fche oYpir\ of t/lic leases, when the lentals ■will it is stated, amount to not less than tiiOOO pei annum It may be mentioned that the sum of £14,500 can lemain on mortgage for a term of years ,i^ 4\ per cent, interest. Plans of the Wlock aie ix«mg prepared, and will be wnt to am ad chess on application being ina,de.

The Viotonn College students' very succosshil cntei tammcnt, at the Syd-nov-fetu'ct Hall, on Wednesday night, was gnen before a large audience. Mr. J W Hill Miss Julia Moran, Mr. F. P Wilson, Miss R Richardson, Mr Douglas. Jackson, and Mr A. Newton contributed musical items. The cast tor the extravaganza. ' Horace at the Universitv of Athens," was a remarkably good one, and the students 1 showed e\ ulence or having carefully studied then paits. A pleasing feature was the presentation by Professor Maclaunn of a handsome silver-mounted w alkingstick to Mr H E. Nicholls, who had trained the students. The twenty -second anniversary of the diapoi\ establishment of Messrs. Veitch and Allan Cuba-street, was celebrated on Wednesday by a picnic given by the firm to their emplovoos, who left in six large drags at noon for Bellevue Gardens Lower Hutt. On arrival an excellent dinner was provided by Messrs. Orr and Lodder (proprietors). The shop assistants' handicap was won by Mr. Jaffrav tailors' handicap, Mr. C'romn appi entices' race, Master Marsh. The skipping competition for the show-room was gracefully won by Miss A. Clark, tailoresses', Miss Moran shop assistants'. Miss Peck. The egg and <tooon race was won by Miss Steel and Mr. Craig. It was a delightful outing The removal of the offices of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporartion to more commodious, premises m the Colonial Mutual Buildings was marked by the holding of a. very successful At Home On the invitation of Mr C M Montefiore, the general manager for New Zealand, a large number of well-known citizens assembled at the new offices on Saturday last for the purpose of wishing continued success to the Ocean, and the hearty manner in which this was done bore eloquent testimony to the popularity of the company and its general manager. It is now some tw o and a-hailf years since Mr. Montefiore planted the "Ocean" in New Zealand, and it ic no exaggeration to sav that the growth of its business during that period has been little short of phenomenal