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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 19 July 1905, Page 5

The scarcity of flounders has been a recurring feature of our fisheries, but restaurant-keepars say thaA nothing like ■he present scarcity has' been known n-ithin their experience. Hawkes Bay, owing to the dearth and to bad weather, ms sent no flounders for vbout three weeks. A kcal consumer f.ho used to send a monthly cheque of G2O to £30 to Napier now cannot get supplied. His last month's bill was £3. l r ery few flounders are coming from the bounds, none from further South, and !ven the Auckland flounder — usually an inlailing fall-back as regards quantity — i> nob to be got. "Very scaree — hardly my obtainable" was the answer to v ■•elegram sent by a Wellington consumei. fie has never before known Auckland to /efnse an order. Is it natural dearth or s trawling the cause? That is a nice point, but he thinks that at Napier at my rate the trawl has overdone it, and oas torn the ground. On the other hand, hapuka seems to be more plenti'ul in Wellington that ever before. Six Mindred to seven hundred of the big fish ,vere sold the other day by one auctioneer, and, with present prices and nipply, hapnka is no doubt a cheap food. 'iut it takes cooking ; given the right Teatment, it will hold its own. There is on exhibition in the window if Mr. S. G. Ross, Willis-street, some nagnificent specimens of Australian opals, nined At the famous White Cliffs by his jrother, Mr. F. Ross, who has been very raccessful.at opal-mining. His Excellency the Governor and party aid Sir Joseph Ward have intimated their intention to attend the Wellington Boxing Tournament on Friday evening. The tournament opens to-morrow evening, and there is every indication of its being a. success. W. Murphy, who is to box Claik on Friday night, and T. Foss, of Feilding, are to arrive in town to-night. R. Marks, of New Plymouth, arrived in town last night. Considerable interest is being taken in the various' contests and iii th« display of professional boxing to be given. The agents for the National Cash Register; Messrs. Yerex, Barker, and Finlay, have just installed the latest model Register into The New House drapery establishment, Cuba-street. The keyboard has been specially designed for ttsa in a drapery establishment, and v the machine in question is the first one made possessing these particular features. Up to the present the largest machines availuble in New Zealand have had a registering capacity for nine assistants, but the new, machine as suppHed to Messrs. Jiime-s Smith and Sons will register up | to thirty-nine assistants, recording accurately every transaction required in a drapery business. A special feature of this machine lies in the fact that afcthongh cash transactions only are added fay the adding counters of the machine, every transaction is recorded automatically on a detail strip, which provides an immediate and correct record of the whole day's business. Buy your furnishings direci from the maker. H. Fielder and Co. are manufacturers, and the cheapest house in town. Write for free catalogues. — Advt. ! New Zealand International Exhibition ' it Christchurch. Official notices and forms I of application for space may be had at ] the New Zealand Express Company, 20, j Customhouse-quay/ Telephone 92. — Advt. ilunt, Cottr9ll, and Co.. general carrjers, Customs and forwarding agents Storage a speciality. Furniture packed »nd removed. Office : Queen's Chambers TeleDhona No. 23. — Advt. ' C. Smith has made some sweeping reduc- j ,ions in children's capes, coots, and tunics. LTiese prices will last only during sale. All ,-oods marked with an utter disregard of 2osl ; they must be sold. Fur-trinTmed :loth coats to clear at 2s lid, 3s lid, and in Ud, worth 13b 6d, 15s 6d, and 19s 6d ; shita beaver coats from 7g 6d; Red Ridsng Hood Capes, in white beaver, special ims, at 9s lid; children's navy serge sailor dressea from 5s 6d, 6s 6d, and 7s id ; children's white beaver necklets, very ipecial line, 6d each solo price ; will wash beautifully. — C. Smith, Cash Draper, Cuba-street. — Advt.