SPECIAL NOTE BY THE AUCTIONI^ERS

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 91, 29 March 1902, Page 21

SPECIAL NOTE BY THE AUCTIONI^ERS

11l these days of difficulty in securing First-class Investments, the sale of the. above property should appeal with speciaJ force to the prudent Capitalist and Financier. The Property is paying a clear annual iiiteie&t of 4 per cent, on a capital value of £20,000, and in a few years it will be returning double the present re's enue, thereby increasing the value of the property to £50,000. It is an admitted fact that the investment of a portion of the reserve funds oi great financial institutions in the purchase of Freehold Business Premises in the Leading Thoroughfares of the Capital Cities) of the world has proved the safest and most profitable of all forms of Trust Investment. Every private investor of experience in the colony knows that the purchase of Freehold Premises such as the Block now being offered in the centre of the Chief Business Street in the Capital City must at the prices of to-day prove remunerative in the highest degree to the purchaser. The fact that the City of Wellington is not only the Political Capital of tine colony, but has now, through the large volume of its imports and exports reached the position of its Commercial Capital gives, to its Business Blocks a bpecial \ alue alike to Commercial Men and to the Banking and Capitalistic World. Nothing oan stay the onward march of progress and development which the City and District of Wellington entered upon Ten Years ago. Every NewYear sees Tens of Thousands of Acres of virgin soil north of the city brought into cultivation ; hundreds of miles of new tracks and roads, opened up ; natural industries established in districts undreamt of a decade ago , new homes created and the strong strenuous life of vigorous and youthful communities "in the back woods" adding wealth and power to New Zealand. All this means increasing and ever increasing Trade and Commerce to the City of Wellington, which, from its geographical position, pours into the whole of the new settlements now existing from the Mokau River to Gisborne the supplies they reouire and receives from them in return the natural products which their pioneers are wresting from the soil. For these and many other reasons the Auctioneers respectfully submit to their investing friends and clients this great Freehold Block of Land and Business Premises as not only a first-class purchase to-day, but as an Investment which will yearly increase in value with the growth and importance of the City of Wellington. For fuller particular , plans of property, etc., apply to the Auctioneers at their Offices, No. 84 Lambton Quay, Wellington, or to MESSRS. BUNNY AND RAWSON, Solicitors for the Vendors, LAMBTON QUAY, WELLINGTON.

That I smell .1 i«it" l^ .1 phiase that sounds hatctul m S\duc\ ju-t now Tli.it a flea-bite has acquned <|Uite i new significance c>\ 1 1 m plague-i idden S\ dnev That tin- Compilation foi Accidcnt.s Act i» not icswMiino to am extent the uumbei ot accidents lliat acooidmg to a \n< il pi-sim-ls t tin- Butnh will soom cease to he a white >ace They aie getting dun blow n That it ma\ not be so v er\ Ions; befoio thorc ,s a wnek-s telcgiap n installation between Aushaha and New Zealand That a recent tram fiom Imercargill to Pui'edm bioke down It i« a Remarkable fact that the Premici was not on board „ That Kma Dick told the boys of th, Ninth that if they did well in South Afnca the\ would rise m the estimation of their sweethearts —That seeing the festive Sydney flea is pronounced to be as bubonic as the rat at 3d pel scalp the people should be mostly millionaires soon —That out at the front they have nicknamed Be la Rev Rontgen Ray because of his nenpt rating powei m getting through the British lines -That certain creditors are manifest me a touchme interest in a particular citizen who rather prematurely let it out that lie is going to the Coronation. That the Parliamentary trip through the madless North as a succession of ba.nc.uets and bumps Haul to say which left the deepest impressi on --That Christ church farmeis aie importing flour fiom Australia which with freight added is cheapei than that supplied bv the now notonous Southern Combine -That according to a Southern paper an active and intelligent polico officer down that wav arrested a penm m the Mot machine for not closing on the half-holiday' -That Mangatoki dair\ which covers several souare yards of country is turning out seventy tons of butter daiU Jo the near-by naper sa^ s They must churn cows and all ' —That tihe rumour cnculated that Lord Kitchener has been asked to lesign bv MH R Withefoid is untiue. Mr "\ ithef ord finds he has not time enough (to finish the war hnns<-lf - That a young Wellington lad\ whose ei-t while voluminous locks a,ie now «ho>'< close has not had the fe^e But she had a great number of fuends in the Ninth Contingent. -That several hundreds of eminent citizens of the backblocks have had their names in the various local prints lately as having been ' mentioned for a seat w. the Legislative Council '— Tliat an up-countr\ editor announces that, as he has now enouo-h pumpkins for the needs of hi*, law family throughout the wmtei subsci lptjons may be paid in good, sound potatoes --That a young Welhngtonian ha.s written to the King 'Please keep me a seat for the Coionation as near you ah possible. Mv father is a J.P and I have a brothei m the New Zealand C ontin gents " That the specta-cle of thieo kliakiclad warrior- just returned fiom the fiont, in earnest com erse with a turbaned Indian outside a well-knovn hotel, gave a few kodakists some excellent snap-shots one day last week —That Jap Pavism is still rampant Three infants up North, the eldest of whom was seven have been captuied end hnod £1 each foi hurglan The Inspector of Weiehts. and Measures should lealh get to work on Justice's scales — That, according to the Premiei the colonial naval squadron wants strengthening. Curious that none of the New Zealand authorities on naval matteis have sent in their claims foi the position of admiral Wherefore this modesty ? — That, now Wilson Banett has denounced the New Zealand theatres to the extent they deserve, budding millionaires with nionev to spend should see to it that the next eminent actor does not run to sub-leaders in the daily press about it — That when they were talking of forming a band for the New Zealand Ninth, one of the troopers made a de-ad "hit " He was asked which instrument he preferred playing on and instantly replied "A field-cornet with a Mauser "

T hat the pessimist ,unl the amah in photogiaphei both tak< tli> uoist \ low ot e\ ( m thing That a man in Auckland has tin own up two guineas a week and tal«on to tat(atclmiß it 3d «i head That a pending dnorco suit, which pioimsed mteuv-ting disclosures has been settled b\ the disapixvu aiu c ot petitioner That still the women oust the dkmi out ot then legitimate emphn A lad\ load Mmtiacter is a ho--" ot woiks on a bia; Tuapeka load conti act That tie teaiful iesponsibiht\ ot lia\ 11112. biouerht ping-pong into ex-st-riuii i« s.a,id to ha\e caused the imoMloi (<• c lei e\ man) to <ro mad That .Mr B X Hiboaid lateMUit,«ii \ ot the Waneanui Fieo/ami Coin\t<ui\ has accented a i appointment wit'i Aio^ s Le\ m and Co Wellinaton That a, Wellington man lecenth letuined from S\dne\ bungs the burnt wiec-1- of an umbiella winch lie asserts was sot ou fne bv the sun Warm' — That the sudden disappearance of an ex-ofhcial has caused a bit of a flutter on the Rualto Tiaidosmen lamenting — tour suits on the nod ' Not bad — That the Wellington Peace and Humamtv Society may be distiessed to Leai n that shaik-fishmg is actualh becoming a popular sport up at Gishorno — That a little gnl in a Wellington school a=kod bv her reachei for a «vnonvm for success was quite satisfied that ' in am age" was the conect answer -That this is the glonous season of the year when you wean* a gieat coat one day, a thin coat the second, a poious plaster the third and a doctor's bill the foui th — That a block of land sold m Collmsstreet, Melbourne recent l\ at £800 pen foot We are woikmg un gradualh to that figure in Wellington as well The earth hunger continues — That a popular contnigonter who was the iccipient of the piesent of a lnelv hoise from admning friends, is wondering why thefoimoi owner i« <=uomg linn foi the payment of it — That it is not true that the Cit\ Council intend putting on extia trams to cope with the before and after work Newtown crowd Let them crowd on all they want Hoises are oheap — That the Newtown young man who foi eed unwelcome attentions on a lach la.=t Saturday night should loin the Pin sical Training School It would piihaps, prevent future hammerings That the age of an oyster is twent\-six years A friend who supped on the succulent bivalves the other night is the only person we know who boluMe-s it. He is slowly recovering — Tha.t the unexpected rush of lady applicants for places as army teachers in concentration camps is natural Most of the voune ladies' "boys" are already in Afuca with New Zealand Contingents — That the Maori youth who jumped recent 1\ o\erthe groat Wanua Falls 84ft deep, received a purse of £12 10s fiom tho excited spectators. He is now setting leadv to lump the Whangarei Falls '90ft — That a Wellington lawyer declaies, a>s tho lesult of much court practice that the wor^t cases of incompatibdrt\ of tempei are tho^e m which both paities ha\e tlie same kind of temper and plenty of it. — That they aie sa\mg over m Austtalia it King Dick will only keep on tending away white. Contingents to South Afuca, the Maori ma\ once agaan come into his own It is only a question of Ins ability to keep the cradle locking — That the L wet's sketch ot Raomg Secretaiv J F Clark has atti acted much attention among his friends on the Coawt Says the Inangahua 'Hoialcl " 'The likcmess. although easih iecognisablo. shows Mr Clark to have bocome much more porth than when 10■sidmg at Reefton — That some of the Australian papers am re-vn ing the old ston tlia.t Mis Seddon and the family are \cn T anxious that Mr. Seddon sliould retire from political life m New Zealand befoie his health is poimanontlv injured and that n is thought Mis Seddon when they leaoh England will cam the daA -That things sec k in a bit mixed o\ei that band championship Both the Wanganiu and Wellington Garrison Rands claiim to ha\e won it Wangaiuu Band has. beoni welcomed home and feted as tlie champion band But Wellington Bandmaster Herd merely smiles and says he has the £100 cheque awarded foi the championship - -That at Auckland's send-off to the Ninth Contingent, Hoi ace Stebbing fetched the crowd with a new patriotic song (words by W. H Boves music bv J W. Plulpott), after this style Bravo New Zealand first to show The Boers and British how we qo 1 Quick in the offer prompt away Up stoam we're off, my lads — Hurray I