IMPORTANT.. Property Sales.

Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 150, 16 May 1903, Page 22

IMPORTANT.. Property Sales.

Two announcements of special importance to syndicates, financiers, small investors, and others are those appearing to-day in. our advertising columns. Messrs. Macdoniald, Wilson, and Co.. under instructions from, the* executors of the estate of the late Mr. EhjaJh Wilton, and in order to close up eistaite accounts for the beneficiaries under the will, will submit to public auction, on the 28th instant, the "Wilton Estate" property, containing some 258 acres of firstrdass land, adjoining the city boundary, and situate immediately opposite Bntomartstreet and Stanley-street. The Town Belt hesi between it and thei Adelaidcroad, the latter the main highway to Island Bay ■* #■ The block is one admirably adapted for sdbdrvasioiial purposes, and the new electrical tramways will run within a few yards of the property. The terms of sale are 10 per cent, deposit, and financial arrangements of a satisfactory character as to the balance can be made with the auctioneers. Lithographic plans of the property will be available in a few days. * * ♦ The sale of the Marton Junction Railw ay Tow nehip is also announced for the 28th instant. This township' has been subdivided into town and suburban sections, comprising 32 sections, averae^ng one quarter aicre each, facing the Marton Junction Railway Station, on the one side, and the Marton. Racecourse on the other side<, with franibages to throe streets, 118 sections, averaging one quarter acre' each, facing the opposite side of the Marton Railway Station, with frontages to four streets. * * * Also, 13 suburban sections, ranging area from 4i acres' to 33£ acres each, the family residence and out-buil dines, with. 33-2- acres, being included. The town has been laid out on, both sides of the Wellington-New Plymouth line, the Wellington. --New Plymouth line, North Trunk Railway Line, at the intersection, known as Marton Junction, and is the spot where the converging railwaiv lines meet and 1 branch off to New Plymouth, Mangaweka, and Wellington respectively. Plans of the township can be had on application.

We are asked, "in. the- interests of iair play, to publish the following letter —"Melbourne, May 2nd, 1903.— The i^htor Free Lance.— Sir,— In the J-ress Association telegrams from Melbourne, of the Ist inst.. a return is

published, on the authority of the Postanasteir-General, shoeing that the en or percentage is slightly higher on telegrams exchanged with New Zealand 'via Extension' than 'via Pacific' * * * "I am, however, in a position, to ascertain where the errors are made, as aE telegrams are sent to my office to be rigidly checked for errors. Upon examination I find that practically the w hole of the errors 'via Extension' ai c made on the Government lines connecting with the Company's, cables, 'and not on our cables, the return therefore "s only a sad exposure of careless w orking on the part of the Government operators. The return itself rather naively proves ray statement, the percentage from, New South Wales being .56 per cent., and that from Victoria 1.33 per cent., that is to say, as the message pioceeded inland the errors grew nearly threefold. * * • "The accompanying figures aie the actual return, of the error percentage of our New Zealand station for the last six months, and speak for themselves. Actual number of words> examined, 183,98, number of errors made, 27, or one error in every 6000 words , and, considering the difficult] code words used in, cablegrams now-a-days, this return reflects great, credit, on the manner this company performs its work' for the telegraphic public. * * * "I am very pleased to be in a positionto state that so far as the Government lines in New Zealand are .concerned, we receive a most efficient, service at their hands. — I am., sir, yours truly, W. Warren, maniager in Australasia. — The Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company. Limited."

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