FOR WELLINGTON, CANTERBURY, DUNEDLN, BLUFF HARBOR, and MELBOURNE. | riIHE Otago Steam Ship Company's js 4 ;J^j J- Dig steamer, Captain Kidney, will leave for the msgs ®**^ above Ports TO-MORROW (Sunday), at 3 a.m. NATH. EDWARDS & CO., Agents. Nelson, Bth March, 1866. 94 FOR SYDNEY. — T-jK fTIHE Brig HIGHLANDER, for SYD.jf\|% _I_ NEY, will sail on 3K||^ TUESDAY NEXT, March 13, tlfeasglla For freight or passage, apply to the Captain on board, or to J. BENTLEY, & CO., 93 . Agents. IMPORTANT SALE OF SUPERIOR MARBLE, AGATE, AND ALABASTER STATUARY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14. At Eleven o'clock. MR, J. J. HORNBY has been instructed by the Proprietors, Signori G. Del Colombo and L. Veroli (who have just landed from Italy via London), to SELL by AUCTION, on the Premises of Messrs. N. Edwaebs and Co. , Trafalgar-street, on WEDNESDAY, March 14, at Eleven o'clock, a large and splendid assortment of superior MARBLE, AGATE, and ALABASTER STATUARY, as follows, viz. : — Rich and elaborately-carved Bardiglis Marble, Agate^ Yellow Sienna, Vente, Antique, and Brocatello Vases, in various styles, as the Hebe, Etruscan, Medicis, Grecian, Gothic, Florentine, Neapolitan, Pompeii, and Herculaneum designs, splendidly carved in Alto-relievo and Basso-re-lievo, suitable for the decoration of Entrance Halls, Drawing-rooms, Mantelpieces, Libraries, etc., etc. Openwork Vases for flowers, Vestal Temples, rich profusion of carved Tazzas, Urns, Card Receivers, ornamented with grapes and vine leaves; also elaborately handled Card Baskets, carved out of solid marble ; Fountains, Pedestals, Bas- ■ kets with relievo figures, Watch Cases, inlaid Jewel Cases, Boxes, Marble Lions, Candlesticks, Groups, Animals, and a large variety of similar articles of a descriptive and useful character. STATUARY OF CARRARA MARBLE. EACH FIGURE FOUR FEET HIGH. Alabaster and Marble Statuary, consisting of Venus of Canova, Cleopatra by Bartolini, Hebe of Canova, Orfannella by Lindi, Jaffo Diana, Fisher Boy, Apollo, Giardiniera, Cupid and Psyche, Venus in shell, Three Graces after Canova, Madonna of Fenerani, the Prayer of Parafratoni, Group of Fidelity, Busts of Dante, Petrarch, Metastasi, and Tasso, and other classical figures, etc., etc., etc. The above goods have been selected with great care by Signori G. Del Colombo and L. Veroli, from the great studios of Italy. In calling attention to the above sale, the Auc • tioneer can confidently assert, that New Zealand connoisseurs have never had so favorable an opportunity of obtaining articles of taste, elegance, and utility. This superb collection of art will be open on Monday next, and the Nelson public are invited to inspect the same (ladies in particular), and make their selections, as the whole will be sold WITHOUT the SLIGHTEST RESERVE. Terms cash. Catalogues are in course of preparation. I Commercial Auction Mart, Bridge-street, March 5. 54 NELSON INSTITUTE EXHIBITION. THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN DAILY, from 11a.m. till s 'p.m., and in the Evening from 7 till 9. Prices of Admission : — Single Tickets, Is. ; Children, 6d. Season Tickets, ss. ; ditto for families, 10s. 6d. JNO. PERCY, . 4 Hon. Sec. BATHS, BATHS.— Hot Baths at WEST'S, Today. 28
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