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Auckland Star, Volume XI, Issue 3241, 9 December 1880, Page 3

The Princess Beatrice is so marked in her attentions to the ex-Empress of France, as to strengthen the popular belief that she was intended for her daughter-in-law. The Princess was the first to meet the imperial lady, on her return from Africa, going aboard the ship.

" Supporting corsets," said Chowder, reading an advertisement. " I wonder if that was what that young fellow was doing when I saw him holding up my daughter Matilda Jane by the waist as I went home last night ?"

it 13 a long while since tne puoiic of Auck land have had a bankrupt stock offered them but the disappearance of J. B. Robinson and the Feizure of hia stock by the creditors has thrown tha stock of tbe Auokland Clothing Company on the market. The trade were invited to tender for it, and Messrs Garlick and Cranweil purchased it at _ large discount off the original cost. They have removed it to their City Hail Arcde premises, and as their warehouse is hardly large enough for their ordinary trade, they will Bell this bankrupt stock at a small advance on what they purchased it for, to effect an immediate clearance. They having paid cash down for it, are naturally anxious to recoup the extra capital thus involved with aU despatch, and offer it at far less than its value to effect a speedy clearance. Ladles and gentlemen are invited to shop early in the..flay,,M the assistants are bo fully occupied attending to customers in tbe afternoon. The goods are all removed to the City Hall Arcade, -and-are being sold by Garlick and Cranweil, Drapery Clothiers and House Furnishers, Quoen-street