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Evening Star, Issue 7197, 27 April 1887, Page 2

HE REASON FOR I A gentleman who h&B not long since returned from Maitland tolls a/pleasant story of a visitor he met there who was the possessor of a newlypurchaßed watdh, which he has made strenuous efforts to regulate by what is known in the ancient oity as " the town time." This time is kept in Maitland by the Post Office elook at one corner of a street and Telegraph Office clock at the other; but the one is regulated by chronometer with which Noah navigated the ark. With a varying difference of from two to four degrees of longitude between the opposite street corners, the disgust of the watch-owner o.ulnvn'ted in the discovery that both clocks wi>i i) <t standing Joke through the district. His '• Waterbury " had been regulated before it left the f ootory, and kept exaot time, as all Water, barys do. thus exhibiting one of its main ARTHUR BRISCOE AND CO., Princes stbeht, Dunedin. NEW ZEALAND HARDWARE COMPANY, CtJMBKBIAND STREET, DUNEDIN, HE WATERBURY WATOH, 13s 6d. F. LA U R E N S ON, Princes stbkkt. I>RAITH\VAITE'S BOOK ARCADE FOR PRESENTS. BRAITHWAITE'S BOOK ARCADE has by far the largest Stock to select from, and is the Cheapest Place in New Zealand for BIRTHDAY AND MARRIAGE PRESENTS. All invited to visit the establishment. NO ONE ASKED TO BUY. THE DUNEDIN DENTAL SURGERY. MYERS AND CO. SUEQICAL AND MKfIHAMOAL DENTISTS, OCTAGON, DUNEDINj PUBLIC NOTICE. THE 'EVENING STAR' SOCIETY Deliver Bills, Circulars, Plans, etc., from house to house, in any district in Dunedin and suburbs, from Is fid per 100, For information, etc., apply to the Publisher Office of tbi'B Paper RSTENH 0 U S E, J Dispensing Physician and Surgeon (from the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Jloorfielrls, and the Golden Square Throat and Ear Hospital). The latest London Treatment in Gynecology and Diseases and Injuries of the Spine. Dispensary : Corner ot Stuart street and MotAy place. Specialist for the Throat, Ear and Eye. Fees from sp. THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON i THS LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDO J THE LONDON THE LONDON THE LONDON VERY IMPORTANT. ' £\£\£\ Pairs GLOVES now offering AT THE LONDON. Ladies', 6Jd a Pair. Also, BANKRUPT STOCK OP TAN KID GLOVES, Is 6Jd. Other houses charge 2h 6.1. NO CREDIT GIVEN. Our motto: f-'mall Profits Quick Returns.

I FUNERAL NOTICF. IHE Friends of the late Mr Anton OhristoM . plier Lehminn aio respectfully invited to attend hi- Funeral, which will leave his late resilience, Manse ttrcefc, for the Northern Cemetery, To-morrow (Thursday), the 28th inst., ivt 3 p.m. HUGH GOUBLEY, Undertaker, Clark and Maclaggan streets.