IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. WATERLOO HOUSE, LAMBTON QUAY, WELLINGTON. TWO (2) DOORS EROM THE NEW ZEALAND BANK KIRKCALDIE AKD STAINS, EROM St. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, LONDON; AND fc DENISON HOUSE, SYDNEY, T>EG most respectfully to inform tbe Inhabitants of Wellington and the surrounding district that they intend opening the above premises ON WEDNESDAY, 9ra DECEMBER,, WITH AN ENTIBELY NEW ANB SELECT STOCK OF GENERAL DRAPERY, SILKS, SHAWLS, MANTLES, &c, &c, &c, Comprising all the latest novelties, and selected with the greatest care by their Buyers in the Paris and London Markets. KIRKCALDIE & STAINS beg to stateall that their goods are of a first-class description, augmented by regular Monthly Shipments, and at one half the price usually charged in the Colonies, aud they trust by close attention to business to gain the support and patronage of the Ladies of Wellington and Public generally. KIRKCALDIE AND STAINS BEG TO ENUMERATE A FEW OF THEIR * LEADING DEPARTMENTS. • Silks and Velvets French and Coventry Ribbons Shawls and Mantles Laces and fanoy broidered Muslins French Merinos Flowers and Millinery Fancy Dresses Hosiery and Gloves Coburgs and Plaids Trimmings and Haberdashery Scotch and Manchester Muslins Men's Mercery Calicos and Linens I EAMILY MOURNING OE EVERY DESCRIPTION. I.M PORTANT NEWS TO THE COLONIAL DEEENCE EORCE AND THE PUBLIC GENERALLY. JUST OPENED, EX "JOHN BUNYAN," AT LONDON HOUSE, 300 GROSS M'TURK's PATENT CLOTH COLLARS AT ONE SHILLING PER DOZEN. * % FIFTY PAIRS FINE BEDFORD CORD PANTS AT TWENTY-SIX SHILLINGS PER PAIR. LONDON HOUSE, LEWIS MOSS, SOLE PROPBIETOB. OPPOSITE THE ODD FELLOWS* HALL.

THE SCOTCH CHURCH Lambton Quay will be open open ou Monday Evening, ihe 7th instant, at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of letting the unoccupied sittings for the ensuing year. FRANCIS SIDEY, Treasurer. Dec. 2, 1803. CAUTION. ITHE undersigned hereby caution the public 2 against harboring my son Wm. Eden Judd, ofthe Waiwetu, he having left bis home witbout my consent. WM. JUDD\ Jun. Dec. 2, 1868. FOUND STRAYING. A WELL-BRED BAY MARE, also, * JLJL 2 bay Geldings (aged) Any person describing tbem satisfactorily oan have them by paying expenses, by applying to SAMUEL VENNELL, Wairarapa. Nov. 2, 186 f, TO ARRIVE PER BRIDE. I •"» CWT WHITE CLOVER SEED f O 2 cwt Poa Pratensis 2 „ „ Trivialis 2 „ Canary Seed 2 Mowing Maohines C. D. BARRAUD, Lambten Quay. ; EOT. 87, 1888

COMMISSARIAT, Wellington, 2nd December, 1863. SEALED TENDERS (in Duplicate) will be received at this office, until Tuesday, the Bth instant, at Noon, /rom persons willing to contract for supplying the undermentioned articles, viz. : — From Ist January to 31st March, 1864, FORAGE FOR HORSES, AT PER RATION. From Ist February to 31st March, 1864, | FRESH MEAT. Forms of tender and any other information to be obtained at tbis office, and no Tender will be accepted unless upon the printed form furnished and duly signed by the contraotor and two sureties. ALEXANDER CLERK, D.A.C.G. SCOTCH CHURCH, LAMBTON QUAY. THE REV. J. S. MUIR will, on Sabbath, the 6ih inst., at 11 o'clock a.m., commence a Series of Expository Readings in the Book of " The Acts of the Apostles.'* I Dec. 2, 1863. EX EDEN, FROM MAURITIUS. 1 XCI TONS SUGAR JIOVJ levin & CO. WeUington Not, U } XBS3. l