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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1191, 28 December 1894, Page 29

The same to you, and many of "them 1"; We reciprocate heartily the Christmas greetings and New Year wishes expressed: by the officers of the General Post Office, Wellington; the Department of Agriculture, Wellington, and the Government Printer and officers of the Printing and Stationery Department, through ..the medium of tasteful cards, just received That issued by the postal officials has j an admirable picture of the Wellington Post and Telegraph Office. The card of the Department of Agriculture is of an appropriate design by Mr G. N". Sturtevant, and typical of pastoral pursuits. A woman, charged on Friday with using insulting language, Mrs Betts, detailed her grievances with such excessive volubility that she effectually prevented anyone else's voice being heard. She was warned in vain by the Stipendiary Magistrate, who at last sent her to the cells for three hours.

The City Council at its meeting last week granted auctioneers' licenaes to the following:—Messrs F. Townsend, R. E Lawson, G. H. Bethune, T. L. Churchward, W. G. Foster, J. B. Harcourt, F. W. Haybittle, E. H. Little, T. E. Macdonald, H. J. Reid, W. F. Shortt, F. Sidey and A. L. Wilson.