QUITK an mteiesti lg histoiv at taches to the block ot bu&i ness piennses in the heart ot Lambton Qua> that Messis. Macdonald, Wilson, and Co sold by auction on Fi ida, last toi the laiftc sum or £24 000 The particular town acit of which this land toimed pait was a portion oi the old Kumatoto Pah, in thJcla\s«l.en the Kumatoto stieam purled its way to the beach c»ei a bed that is now known a.s Woodwa.d-st.ert Colonel McCWit,, the Commissioner appointed bv the Impenal Government to co serve 'the nghts of the oiiginal Maonowners of Wellington set aside this vnd for them, and also the land on winch stood the still more imposing and oooulous Pipitea Pah. which stood at the pomt Xc the Railway Hotel now exists # * The Maori owners held a korero , to in rl,v, finalise their interests, and the in fluentia chief Wi Tako, who for many yearf subsequently was a member of the Upper House, was very anxious to so advantageous as the other site How ever it was Hobson's ohoicewit h \\ i Tako and he accepted the Kumatoto acre as his share, its outside value then heine about £100. » * * Time went on, Wi Tako was gathered to his fathers, and his funeral was one of the sensations of Wellington some fifteen years ago. His landed posses sions were left to his daughter Joseph ine who is now Mrs. Josephine Love. Mr Love, himself, is a burly specimen of the educated Maori, and thoroughly understood the value of a freehold busi ness site in the heart of the Empire City After his marriage with Miss Wi Tako. he found that, her interest in this particular block was bound un with that of three other Maoris, and he lost no time in bming them out for £300 That was during the last fifteen ■< ears His excellent judgment has been re warded by the recent <=ale, which has realised £24,000 for a portion of that despised towu acre of many years a<*o Mrs. Love still retains the ownership of the portion on which stand the piemises of Messrs. Alfred Lindsay and Mc- Gregor Wright Kapai the Maori * * * Mr Kennedy Macdonald, m his own inimitable style, which must be founded u^on that of Goo. 