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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5414, 3 August 1878, Page 4

Auctions MONDAY, s,tb AUGUST. At X o'clock. THE SALE OF.. STOCK-IN TRADE In the ASSIGNED ESTATE OP MESSES. BECK AND TONES, Will bo resumed on Monday, sth August, at 1 o’clock, by GEORGE’ THOMAS, Consisting of— About- 30 tons flour, Victorian and Colonial, various brauds Wire nails Oats Blacking Currants Eaisius Weighing machine Plour-inill Bottled beer and stout. Raw linseed oil Tea, in halC-cheats.aud boxes - Hama and bacon Cheese Soap ■ Geneve, JDKZ' Sugar, I.C. and brewing crystals Vestas, 250’a and plaids' Salmon Sardines Luncheon provided. Terms at sale. THURSDAY, 29th AUGUST, ’ At 2 o’clock. IMPORTANT TO CAPITALISTS. SALE OP PREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES. IN jTHE" ASSIGNED ESTATE OP BECK AND TONES, WELLINGTON. GEORGE THOMAS has received instructions from the Trustees to sell by public anctioOf on Thursday, 29th August, at 2 o’clock, at his rooms, Lambton-quay, those splendid freehold premises contained in Lot No.;!— '£>_ No. 1 Lot. A three-storey warehouse (freehold), erected in 1876; contractors, Rountree and Russell ; architect, C. Tringham, Esq. The whole of the frame Hobarton hardwood (extra size); front planked and panelled with heart of kauri, as well as flooring ; sides, back, and roof covered with corrugated iron ; size of building, 50ft. frontage to Mannersstreet ; depth, 80ft. or thereabouts. Ground floor approached from Mannersstreet ; second floor approached from Willisstreet, being on a level with the approach from AVillis-street; third floor is also approached from Willis-street, thereby only having to lift the goods one story, which is accomplished by an American lift, being a fixture on the third floor. The allotment of land on which the building is erected is 50ft. to Manners-street, with a depth of 140 ft. Sin., having a frontage at the rear to a right-of-way of 16ft. leading from AVillis-street. No. 2 Lot Contains 64ft. frontage to Willis-street by a depth of 66ft. 7in., down a right-of-way from AVillis-street, and adjoins No. 1 Lot, of 64ft. frontage to the said right-of-way. This section has been occupied as a timber yard. No. 3 Lot Contains a leasehold property of 51 links frontage to Manners-street by a depth of 189 links, leading down CornhiU-street, which is 24 links wide ; depth from Comhili-street, 120 links. Lease, 15 years to run,: from last June. Ground rent, £3O per-amrain. - The store erected on tho above land consists of two storeys, is 30ft. frontage to Mannersstreet by Ssft. deep or thereabouts, is built of New Zealand timber (that is, the frame), covered with corrugated iron, and the front rusticated boards; roof also iron. Also, a lean-to attached to the building at the cast side at the rear. Adjoining the lean- to, at tho back of the building, the framework of a large two-storey building is erected, covering the whole of the land. Machinery and fixtures consist of a steamengine, 5 horse-power, working up ' to 8, with a large Cornish boiler, built by K. AV. Mills, Esq., capable of supplying a 12 horse power engine; t«o com crushers, and two oats do.; onechaff-cutterfwork-by steam), one bone-mill (do.); one . powerful steam winch. The whole of the machinery is in thorough working order. Plans of both properties to be seen at the office of the auctioneer, who would beg to remind capitalists, both in Christchurch and Dunedin, that these freehold premises are decidedly the most eligible for carrying on a large business (havinsr every facility, as well as being situated in the two principal streets) now obtainable in Wellington. Terms liberal, declared at sale, which will be at 2 o’clock. Refreshments provided. For further particulars apply either by post or otherwise to GEORGE THOMAS, Auctioneer and General Merchant. AVellington, July 27th. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. The Moat Important and Interesting Auction Sale Advertised for Many Years Past In the Provincial District of Wellington. % 4TR. R. J. DUNCAN has been instructed \yi by James Gilligan, Esq., to give notice that at the request of a considerable number of settlers he will offer for sale by auction, within a few days after the railway train runs to Featherston, which is expected to be in first week in September— The Township of WARDELL, About nine miles from Masterton, on the main road to Castlepoint This township forms a portion of the farfamed and well-known property known as Abbotsford, Tauera, really tho only available site for a township between Masterton and Castlepoint on the main trunk line of road. The township is now being surveyed, and lithographed plans are in course of preparation, and will be ready for distribution in a few days. Tho terms will bo most liberal, 2559 ACRES, PORIRUA. MB. J. H. AVALLAOB, Estate Auctiouoer, is instructed by tho Hon. Wi Parata and others, to sell by public auction, at the land mart, Hunter-street, AVellington, at at early date, of which due notice will be given—--2559 acres Taupo, Porirua, bounded on the • north by Haukopua, on the west by ’ Motuhara, on tho east by Crown land, on the south by the sea, and south-east by sections 82, . ‘Bl, 85, 86, Porirua Harbor, Plan and particulars at the office of the auctioneer/ , Land and Estate Agency Office, Huntor*street, Wellington, Augusts.