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Press, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5453, 12 March 1883, Page 3

The Artful Teetotaller.—An /eminent brewer' lately met one of. his employes in whose button-hole was a blue ribbon, the mark of the temperance man. The brewer, who knew that the recruit to the blue ribbon army had not been noted for his abstention from liquor, asked him what the ornament signified, and whether he did not think that the wearing of the decoration was a little inconsistent with the fact of hia earning his livelihood in a brewer's employ. The man winked, and made answer thus, 'Well, sir, the fact is, I'm as fond of a glass of beer as anybody, and that's why! wear it. You see, sir,they likes to tempt mc, and then I succumbß ?. The nausea incident to sea voyages is not infrequently produced by the condition of I the system. True, the undulatory motion of the vessel is apt to stir the bile at any time, but if the status of the organs is sound and the whole physical organism is 'in a perfectly sanitary state, this "mal de mer, or sea-sickness, may be slight, or only of temporary duration. To attain this desideratum use Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Abomatio Schnapps.—[Advt.]

Assessment Courts. BOROUGH OF RANGIORA. ASSESSMENT COURT. : UNDER RATING ACT, 1876. "VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in JL3I pursuance of the above-named Act an ASSESSMENT COURT will be held by mc for the purpose of hearing and determining aU OBJECTIONS to the [VALUATION LIST for the Borough of Rangiora, when the Town Clerk, or other persons appointed by or on behalf of the Council, and the Valuer and CoUector.of Rates of the said Borough, wiU be required to attend and produce all books and papers relating to their respective offices, which the Court may require to be produced, at the Resident Magistrate's Court House,, Rangiora, on TUESDAY,'the 20th day of MARCH, 1883, at 11 o'clock in the ForeAll Objections must have been addressed to, and delivered at, the place appointed for the Sitting of the said Court, on or before February 15th, and a copy of such Objections must be lodged with the Town Clerk seven days before the sitting of the said Court. _." ' , CALEB WHJTEFOOED, / Resident Magistrate, Judge. MICHAEL LYNSKEY, Clerk of Assessment, Court. Rangiora, March 6th, 1883. 3-9 2416 Exhibitions HORSE TAMING EXHIBITION. " JOHN DEWE, the New Zealand Rarey, wfll give his SECOND EXHIBITION OF HORSE •TAMING AT TATTERSALL'S, 'ON MONDAY EVENING, 12th INSTANT. Doors open at 7 p.m., commence at 7.15 sharp. Prices of Admission—Special reserved seats for ladies and gentlemen, 2b; unreserved ditto, Is. | WILD UNHANDLED COLTS. 3-10 2477 WOODEND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. mHE AUTUMN SHOW wiU be I Held in the DISTRICT SCHOOLROOM os THURSDAY, MARCH 15th. Exhibits to be ready for staging at 10 o'clock. 3-10 2391 A. H. BRO _LEY,Hon. Sec. Government Notices* NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS TCUBXTSVI-BLUF F. rRONBARK~TIMBER. | General Manager's Office, (Bailway Department), Wellington, 6th March, 1883. j ———-RTTTEN TENDEES wiU be received ' W atSomceup to NOON of MONDAY, the 26th March, for the Supply and Delivery of Hewn Ironbark and Piles. Specifications and forms of tender may be obtained at the EaUway Store Offices, Christchurch andDunedin. Tenders to be addressed to the General Manager, Now Zealand Railways, and to be marked outside, " Ten ler for Ironbark.'' Thelowest or any tender wifl not necessarily, be ac--oepte d* J. P. MAXWELL, General Manager New Zealand Railways.