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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 313, 7 January 1879, Page 2

enter for the Wellington Regatta, and judging by her sailing qualities exhibited yesterday, will stand a very good chance of carrying off the principal event.' l"be ship Otakf, which recently arrived at this port, brought, among other things, a large shipment for Mr. J. Monteith, the Medical Hall, Manners-street, including an extensive assortmert of elegant toilet sets and. requisites, including some handsome brushes in mother-of-pearl, a novel kind of toq|h brushes, choice and varied perfumes, a specimen parcel of the new and favorite liquid dentifrice " Rosaline," so much in use in London and on the Continent, a capital collection of sponges, new preparation of sarsaparilla, quinine, &c. For particulars see advertisement. An announcement, which will be read with much gratification by lovers of the pure vintage of Australia, appears in another column. Messrs. Stevenson and Stuart announce that they have reduced the prices of Australian wines to the extent of 4s. per dozen, the wines thus lowered in price including some of the favorite brands, such as the famous Cawarra bock and claret* Gonstantia front the celebrated Saltram vineyard, and Penfold's selected wines. A little girl named Laura Dance, who ilfaie in with her mother from the Efatt this morning, was lost near the Railway Station. She is described as being three years old, with fair hair, and black eyes, and wears a white dress with cream trimmings, and a white bonnet with blue bows. The mother is naturally very much distressed, and will feel very grateful for any information given at the Police Station respecting the little waif. We understand that the Government steamer Stella will leave in the course of a few days for Kapiti, Mana, and Stephen's Islands, taking Mr. Blackett, C.E., on a visit of inspection relative to the proposed new lighthouses in the Strait. Mr. Ashcroft, the General Manager of the Wellington and Featherston Railway, Is now superintending the erection of machinery at the railway workshops, Petone, and in order that no time should be lost, be has had fitted up in the carriage sheds a very fine steam lathe erected upon framework, so managed that, when the workshops which are to be built behind the carriage-maker's sheds are ready, the whole machinery can be removed on rails into the requisite place, and there need be no cessation or interruption to business. We (Australasian) believe Mr. John Conway will organise another team for England next season. It will probably include Messrs. E. Evans and Massie, the latter of whom is said to be as brilliant a bat as C. Bannennan. Mr. Mansford, R.M., took formal possession of the Provincial Council Chambers this afternoon as a Resident Magistrate's and District Court, also of the Provincial Library and the room formerly occupied by the Clerk of the Hott County Council for offices. During the absence of Mr. Mansford, R.M., and Mr. Baker at the Upper Hutt to-morrow, the office furniture, books, &c, will be removed. Messrs. Dwan and Kirton advertise that their " monster sale " will be continued at the Arcade Buildings to-morrow, at 2 p.m. Previous to the land Bale they -will offer by auction a large selection of books. Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. will sell a quantity of Bugar, ex Claud Hamilton, at their rooms, at 2 p.m. to-morrow. _ The mimetic art has been in existence from time immemorial, we might almost say; the word, although usually, may not be strictly and literally confined to tne dramatic age. To imitate, and especially to imitate what is successful, ia a very old habit. Liberalised in its meaning, it not unfrequently trenches on stealing. The story of Chatterton, the boy-poet'splagiar-isms, evidently began in imitation, until failure to emulate his original led him to pilfer. So those who endeavor, fruitlessly, to manufacture a cordial like UdoiiPho Woi«fe's Schiedam AaosiATia Schnapps, breaking down in the attempt to even simulate tne renowned antidyspeptic inyigorant, are almost invariably tempted to pirate the article.— [Ad vt.]