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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5420, 10 August 1878, Page 4

Auctions SATURDAY, 10th AUGUST, At 1.30 p.m.. GREAT BOOK SALE. FOR ABSOLUTE AND POSITIVE SALE. Laery & Campbell, late . Beauchamp, Campbell, & co. have received instructions to Bell by public auction, ou Saturday, August 10, at 1.30 p.m., at their rooms, Lambton-quay, The Largest Collection of Books ever offered at one sale, in the City of Wellington, WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST KESESVE - Over 1000 Volumes, comprising the very . latest works in every department of literature. The following may be quoted as a specimen of the class of books to he sold, complete, catalogues of which arc now ready for delivery at the rooms of the Auctioneers Captain Fred. Burnaby’s On Horseback through Asia Minor (2 vols.), Maiulsley’s, Physiology and Pathology of the Mind, Cairnes' Political o Economy, John Stuart Mill’s Three Essays on Religion, Gallon's English Men of Science, Alfred Domett's Poems Flotsam and Jetsam, Anstead’s Physical Geography, Hubner’s Travels Round the World . (2 vols.), Davies’ Oithodox, Unorthodox, and Heterodox London (3 vols.), Theological Translation Fund Library (various volumes), Self Help, Thrift, and Character, by Sami. Smiles, The Wandering Jew (illustrated by Gustave Dore), Tennyson's Harold (a drams), Rowe’s -Supernatural in the New Testament, MacMillan’s Science Primers (nearly all the vols. published), International Scientific Series (a large number of vols.), the Nature Series (various vols.), Ancient Classics for English Readers (various vols.), Lord Macaulay’s Essays, Templeton’s Engineer’s Pocket Book, Page’s Geology, Nicholson’s Zoology, Tyndall’s Electricity, Huxley’s Physiology,. Pioton’s New Theories of the Old Faith, Morell’s Authority and Conscience, Thos, Carlyle's Works (various volumes of the cabinet edition), Beale’s Life Theories, Dickens’ Pickwick Papers (illustrated libraryedition, with original plates), Farjeon’s Novels and Christmas Stories, Scott’s Waverley Novels (cheap editions), Staunton’s Handbook of Chess and Chess Praxis (2 vols.), Louis Figniere’s Work-, viz., Ocean World, Insect World, Vegetable World, Mammalia, Human Race, Reptiles and Birds, &0., &c.; Sir Eartle Frere's Africa, Cobbe’s Broken Lights, Draper's Intellectual Develop, ment of Europe (2 vols.), &0., Ac., &c. The books will be on view on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 7.30 to 9.30 iu the evening, and inspection Is invited. We would draw attention to the time of the sale, viz., 1.30. and as there are over SCO lots, the sale will commence punctually, to allow us to get through the catalogue before dark. Laery and Campbell, late BEAUCHAMP, CAMPBELL, & CO., Auctioneers. NOTICE. In consequence of the above sale taking place at 1.30, our usual weekly horse sale will commence at 12 noon, instead of 2 o’clock, as usual. Horae sale Nag’s Head Yard, at 12 o’clock. Laery and Campbell, late BEAUCHAMP, CAMPBELL, & CO., Auctioneers. THURSDAY, 15th AUGUST, At 2 o’clock. On Board the Ship. SALE OF THE BARQUE MALAY, Now lying in Lyttelton Harbor. THE Trustees have received instructions to have sold by auction the clipper barque Malay, 328 tons register, built iu Dundee, Scotland. This vessel has just landed 530 tons of coal from Newcastle ; is a very fast sailer, thoroughly coppered and fastened, aud is exceedingly well found. Is well adapted for the Mauritius or China trade. Terms at sale. For further particulars apply either to F. A. Krull or George Thomas, trustees iu the estate of Beck and Tonks. THURSDAY, 29th AUGUST, At 2 o'clock, IMPORTANT TO CAPITALISTS. SALE OF FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES. IN-THE ASSIGNED ESTATE OF BECK “ AND TONKS, WELLINGTON. GEORGE THOMAS has received instructions from the Trustees to sell by public auction, on Thursday, 29th August, at 2 o’clock, at his rooms, Larabton-quay, those splendid freehold premises contained iu Lot No. 1— No. 1 Lot. A three-storey warehouse (freehold), erected in 1876; contractors, Rountree and Russell ; architect, C. Tringham, Esq. Tiie whole of the frame Hobartou 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. frautage to Mannersstreet ; depth, SOft. or thereabouts. Ground floor approached from Mannersstreet ; second floor approached from Willisstreet, being on a level with the approach from Willis-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. Bin., having a frontage at the rear to. a right-of-way of 10ft. leading from Willis-street. No. 2 Lot Contains 64ft. frontage to Willis-street by a depth of (J'ift. 7iu., down a right-of-way from Willis-street, aud 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 liuka frontage to Manners-street by ft depth of 180 links, leading down Cornhili-street, which is_ 24 links wide; depth from Cornliili-street, 120 links. ■ Lease, 15 years to run, from last June. Ground rent, £3O per annum. The store erected on the above laud consists of two storeys,.is 30ft. frontage to Mannersstreet by 85ft. 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 east side at the rear. Adjoining the lean-to, at the back of the building, the framework of a large two-storey building is erected, covering the whole of the land. Machinery and'fixtures cousist of a steamengine, 5 horse-power, working tip to 8, with a large Cornish boiler, built by K W. Mills, Esq., capable • of supplying a 12 horse-power engine; two corn crushers, and two oats do.; one chaff-cutter (workby steam), one bouc-roill (do.); one , powerful steam winch. The whole of the machinery is in thorough working order. Flans of both properties to be seen at the office of the auctioneer, who would beg to remind" capitalists, both iu Christchurch and Duucdin, that these freehold premises are decidedly the most eligible for carrying on a large business (having 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 d'eV'ck? Refreshments provided.', , For further* particulars' apply " dither by post or otherwise to 1 GEORGE THOMAS, Auctioneer and General Merchant. Wellington, July 27th. . : Genuine neva steabine CANDLES, in Chests, each containing 9 Boxed. ' For Hardness, Brilliancy of Flame, and General Finish these" well-known Candles are unsurpassed. Orders, bonked through Melbourne houses. R. JOHNSTON, 1, Queenstreet, Melbourne, agent for Neva Stoarine Co., St. Potvfreturg.