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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 658, 4 January 1881, Page 3

i ; : I Kemtniscbxces ov wKuwtnoN,—ln the year 1845 a worthy citizen piodded his way i with some difficulty through fern and ti-tree i to Te Aro Flat being in search of the suri veyor's peg which had been driven in at the r corner of what is now Cuba and Dixon i streets, Upon this spot was erected a small 9 house, in whioli a very successful drapery business was carried on by two ladies of j remarkable talent and energy, who have- ' long since retired from the scene to the land of their birth—--3 ■ "Land ot the mountain and tho flood, I Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. ' In the year 1866 it passed into the hands of i Mb Jakes Smith, the present proprietor, i who gave to the premises the appropriate ; name of Te Aro House, and under whose I management business has steadily pro- ■ grossed with the rising fortunes of the city, , until at length it wa3 found that a conaidcM|nHni| the I^HBH^H^^HHHHRnsive of feet, and 24 i^^HHHl^Bhoid HHnHHH|Hd to i 8 HHHBlHtooi post at and proH^HHHHHHHstin