Without reserve, us now building is to bo erected immediately. WEDNESDAY, APRIL Ist, At 2 o’clock sharp. 1500 VOLUMES OF BOOKS BY WELL KNOWN AUTHORS. AO. TAINE & CO. will soil at • their roams, as above, 1500 volumes of Books by well-known authors, such as— “""“Chambers George Eliot Gardiner, M.D. Spurgeon Jules Btio Boisgilbort Wm. Smith, LL.D. Tennyson Todhunter Thackeray Dr Aim C. Lamb Massingbad Bacon May Browning Lamartine Gaskell Trollope C. Yongo H. Fielding Blackio And a lot of miscellaneous writers of fic tion The whole will bo sold without reserve, as owners are leaving. Further entries for this sale will be received up to Monday evening. Catalogues may bo inspected, and can bo procured on day of sale. 382 THURSDAY, APRIL 2nd, At 2.30 p.m. Weekly Sale of Furniture, &0., in our Rooms. AG. TAINE AND CO. will hold • their weekly sale of furniture, &0., in their rooms as above, and sell a largo quantity of useful, household furniture, &c. 430 SATURDAY, APRIL 4th, At 2 o’clock. WEEKLY SALE"OF HORSES, IN OUR YARDS. A Q. TAINE & CO. will hold their j\ m weekly sale of horses, as above, and sell — On account of Mr McGuire, who has finished his contracts — 3 good draught horses 2 good road drays, and lob of shaft and leading harness Also, On Account of a Wairarapa client— It good harness horses Entries now being received. 429 PRELIMINARY NOTICE. DAIRY CATTLE A G. TAINE AND CO. will hold a jCSIo special sale of dairy cattle at their Yards, Lower Hutb, early in April, and sell—



AUCTION BALES. THIS HAY, At II o’clock forenoon sharp. Absolute Unreserved Sale. In A Shod, Queen’s Wharf. SCHOONER JOHN BELL AND HER CARGO. Fur the Benefit of Whom it May Concern. Messrs j. h. bethune and go. aro instructed by Captain R. Kirk to sell by public auction TO-DAV, TUESDAY, 31st March, at 11 a,m„ in A Shed, Queen s Wharf, by permission of W. Ferguson, Esq., Secretary, Wellington Harbour Board — The fore-and-aft schooner JOHN BELL, as she now lies stranded on the beach at Terawhiti Point, After which, The John Boll’s cargo, now lying on board and on the adjacent beach (railway iron excepted) Also, A portion of the cargo already recovered, and now on view in A Shed, includ ing a quantity of galvanised iron. Hour, Ac. 