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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1027, 2 March 1869, Page 4

Impending Ruin. — The writer "Under the Verandah" thus discourses :-— We seem to go through periods of national disaster without showingany serious traces or bad after effects. Doesn't everybody know how the goldfields " broke out ;" we survived that. The gold yield fell off, and we seem to have got over that. We have all been ruined at least fifteen times by panics, and still we are clothed and lunch at one. There is now and again tightness in money and the bank screw is tightened hydraulically, but still we preserve a decent rotundity, and can afford to remember that the sun is over the foreyard at eleven. I can remember several impending ruins ; ruin by radicals, ruin by deadlocks, ruin by squatters, ruin of squatters, ruin by Downing-street, ruin by Higinbotham ; but still somehow we survive the growl at our own considerate good nature in staying here at all when we could all do so much better for ourselves in London or Manchester. It isn't selfishness that keeps us . Under the Verandah.

MASONIC HOTEL. STAPYLTON O. CAULTON begs to intimate that he has takon the above house, which has boen newly fitted, and ho hopeß by keeping tho best of everything and by oareful attontion to tho wants of his customers, to merit tho liberal support aooorded to his predecessor, Mr. Gill. Ootober 1. 1868. 100 INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION, MELBOUBNE, 1866-67. COFFEE AND SPICES. NOTICE FIRST PRIZE MEDAL has been awarded to Robebt Habpeb & Co., of Melbourne, for Coffee and Spioos— all good— of excellent quality. — Vide Report of tho Jurors to tho Royal Commissioners, CAUTION. As certain unprincipled persons are vending inferior Coffee by imitating our Labels, the publio are hereby informed that every package of our standard Coffees has the signature, ' Robert Harper and Co." N.B.— R. H. and Co. beg to inform the publio that, owing to the extra duty of 2d. per lb. having been lately imposed on manufactured Coffee imported into New Zealand from Australia, they have started a Bbanch 01? theib Business in Staitobd-Stbeet, Dunedin, whioh enables them to exeoute orders for Coffees, Spices, Pepper, &0., of the same standard qualities, and at tha same prices as they have hitherto supplied from Melbourne boforo the rohibitory duty was imposed. 73