THE DAILY OTAGO TIMES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8076, 11 January 1888, Page 2

THE DAILY OTAGO TIMES.

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I Tiik report of Mr Norman Lockycr to | the Solar Physics Committee of the Royal Society, which, under the title of "Preliminary Notes on the Struc- ■'•' ture of Meteorites," was read at a recent meeting of the Society, is a paper of the utmost imi ortanco and interest. A series of demonstrations and conclusions are included which, if they arc ultimately accepted, will go far to revolutionise the conceptions at present held regarding the physical constitution of the heavenly bodies. " All self-luminous bodies in the ■' celestial spaces,''Mr Lockycr asserls, " arc composed of meteorites, or masses " of vapour produced by heat brought " about by condensation of meteor " swarms duo to gravity." These conclusions arc not based on merely general grounds. They arc the mature result of an arduous and sustained series of investigations, supported by cumulative and converging evidence which amounts almost to actual de-

nonstration. Die starting point i ho meteorite, the goal is the orderl; evolution and cycle of the universe Under this theory the solar syeten and its several members may still b regarded as the associated results o nebular condensation, but the nebuli itself must cease to be regarded a; the primordial organism, being rathe the evolved product of the gradun condensation of meteorites. The first characteristic which give: to meteorites their importance in th< economy of the universe is their oc casional accessibility in the form o: meteoric stones to examination. Tin second is their universality in th< regions of space. They arc in fact tin most universally distributed bodies It may not be unreasonable, therefore to suppose that they play at least ai: important part in the economy of whai scientists call the cosmos, i.e., the whole universe of space. If this bo granted, may not much light bo thrown on the nature and laws of that economy bj studying the physical constitution oi meteoric stones, and their behaviour in the laboratory in such conditions as may approximately reproduce the conditions in which they are known to exist in interstellar space ? Mr Lockyer professes to have established on independent and indefeasible grounds the conclusion that meteorites are really the raw material from which the heavenly bodies are in the infinite process of time evolved. Thi- he assumes to have demonstrated by a special application of the potent and searching method of spectrum analyses ; comparing the results of experiments and observations on meteorites with the observed and recorded spectra of the heavenly bodies themselves. The observations and experiments of Mr Lockyer have extended over 11 years, and he expresses himself convinced of the truth of the conclusion stated above, not only that the heavenly bodies michfc have been so evolved, but that they actually have been so. We will endeavour to give, avoiding technical terms, a general idea of the process of his investigations. It must be in the first place understood that the luminous phenomena manifested by the several classes of heavenly bodies can bo to a large extent reproduced in the laboratory by subjecting meteorites, so far as possible, to conditions similar to those assumed by the hypothesis to exist in space. For instance, the hypothesis requires that the sun should be regarded as the condensation, to the point of complete volatilisation, of an originally sparse swarm of meteorites. If then the theory is correct, and if the meteorites which reach the earth may fairly bo taken to represent the average composition of such bodies, the volatilisation in the laboi"atory of a sufficient number of meteorites at a temperature approximating that of the sun—which, is obtainable in the Voltaic arc—should reproduce the solar spectrum. Mr Lockyer asserts that this " can be very " fairly reproduced (in some parts of " the spectrum almost line for line) by " taking a composite photograph of the " arc spectrum of several stony " meteorites between iron metl oric " poles." If this is merely a coincidence, it is certainly a very \ remarkable one. But if in all i cases the spectra of meteorites, when \

subject in the laboratory to the conditions supposed by the hypothesis to obtain in the several clashes of heavenly bodies, are found to be in close correspondence with the observed and recorded spectra of those very classes of heavenly bodies, the cumulative weight of the evidence thus obtained becomes almost irresistible.

The hypothesis was received, as might naturally be expected, by the Royal Society with reserve. The proof depends on a series of minutely ' delicate observations and comparisons in which the most expert may be deceived. It is the elucidation of the infinitely great by the study of the infinitely Kf-.tk If Mr Lockyer is correct, the infinitesimal vibrations ot tho i"I*!;"*'*<*t. mrtidf s of matter excited by the ieeblest £orcc3 which are capable of producing luminous.' phenomena of any kind, are found when patiently scrutinised to reveal the secret of the universe, to explain its past history and to furnish a forecast of its future. He only postulates two known phenomena—namely, the existence of meteorites and space, and the cumulative force of gravity. Starting from these he is able, on his theory, to explain in orderly sequence the origin of celestial species. When gravity first begins to draw the meteorites together, there is the beginning of a nebula or a comet. As the 2iebula condenses further it becomes an inchoate star, and passes through successive stages, due to the increasing approximation of the meteorites composingit. Ultimately the separate meteorites are fused into masses of incandescent vapour, and the process of cooling sets in. Taking temperature as the criterion, we caii arrange on the two arms of an ascending and descending curve the several orders of heavenly-bodies. At the foot of the ascending curve come the individual meteorites; above them come nebula;, comets and stars in successive stages of meteoric condensation. The gradual process of cooling is represented on the descending arm by stars of the solar group and others, and at last we again reach a temperature which, like that of individual meteorites in space, is incapable of producing luminous phenomena. Experience and observation give no evidence whatever of any stage ulterior to that of a star so cooled clown as to bo entirely nonluminous. Although beyond doubt meteorites collide and meteor swarms clash with one another, there is some consolation in being assured by Mr Lockyer that "In recorded time there " has been no such thing as a world on " fire or the collision of masses of " matter as large as the earth, to say " nothing of masses of matter as large " as the sun ; but the known distribu- " tion of meteorites through space " indicates that such collisions may " form an integral part of the economy " of nature."

Tjie public will bo surprised to hear of the arrival in Duncdin of the Minister of Education and secrctunj. In tlic innocence of our minds we had supposed that private secretaries (except for the Premier) had been di-speused with by the new Ministers along with other relics of a luxurious age. But the accompaniment of the Minister of Education by a private secretary leads to the belief that these offices have been maintained by mos oE the Ministers, and upon inquiry we find that this is actually the case, though none of the members of Parliament who were acquainted with the fact have taken the trouble to call attention to the abuse. This is a pretty way of setting about retrenchment! We have no hesitation in saying—and we have more than once heard the opinioD endorsed by ex-Cabinet Ministers—that there is rarely any necessity for any Minister except the Premier to have j a private secretary. The practice is comparatively a now one in New Zealand. Aslateasin the Hall Government, the Premier and Treasurcralone enjoyed the privilege of secretaries, tn South Australia no one but the Premier has ever had a private secretary, and in Victoria it is only quite recently, since the times have been so flourishing, that other Ministers have J given themselves such a luxury. The way in which the late Ministry journeyed about the country dragging their private secretaries after them at the public expense told considerably against them in public opinion • but it is much worse for a professedly retrenchment Government to be following so bad an example. The retention of secretaries by the present Ministers becomes the more to be blamed when we remember that their individual duties are comparatively small when compared with the late Government, owing to the weight of their burdens being placed on the shoulders of the Premier and to their policy being of a less enterprising character, the object aimed at being to limit their functions rather than to increase them. Sir H.

s V a c f s V 1 3 3 f t It is to bo hoped that the City Council \vi] give effect to the petition for the purification of Walker street and the neighbourhood which has been presented to them by some " ratepayers of South Ward and others inter- " cstecl in the welfare of the residents in " and near Walker street." The number of shanties and (ilthy and dilapidated tenements in that neighbourhood has long been a scaudal. By its situation, Walker street ought to have been one of the best residential streets in the town. Its slope is much easier than High street, and most of the houses there enjoy a linn view over the bay and to the ocean without paying for it by the toil of a tiresome ascent. But those horrible tenements have kept away the better class of residents and greatly injured the value of property in the neighbourhood, as well as created a kind of focus of vice and disease in one of the best parts of the town. They are mostly unfit for habitation and injurious to the health of the neighbourhood as well as of their occupants, who are for the greater part Cinnamon and Europeans of the baser sort. Sections 302 and 303 of " The Municipal Corporal ions " Act 188G " specially provide for the condemnation by City Councils of buildings in a condition unfit for occupation or dangerous to public health, and we trust (hat the City Council will carry out what is manifestly the intention of the law in a case of this kind. No consideration of loss to the owners nf such buildings ought to be islly.ved to weigh for an instant. Tho thoughtless way in which men of respectability and upright, life allow their property :o be thus abused deserves moral censure as

Stout took the Premiership and the Attorney-generalship as weli as the Education department. It is then ;i little too much that the country should be asked to pay for a private secretary for Mr Fisher when lie can give nearly his whole time to that department—for his Comurissionership of Customs cannot make a heavy draft on his leisure. It may be objected that this is a little matter, but it is one of those straws that show the way the wind blows, and help us to judge of the sincerity and thoroughness of the Ministerial retrenchment. That an enormous majority of the public will view it in that light we are very sure. It is very diflicult for the public to judge of. the merits of Ministerial pretensions to retrenchment. All that they have togo by is the gross amount saved, and whether they can discover any oflices maintained which obviously ought to bo done away with. When they discover such they naturally infer that the unknown corresponds to tho known, and that if they only knew the ins and outs of the Government oflices they would find more extravagances of a similar kind to those which they have detectedNor is it ever an excuse for an extravagance

that it is a small one. That plea cuts at the very root of economy and leads directly to waste.

well as practical penalties; besides which, the ! proprietors of such property will be in the j end benefited by having to put respectable ) and wholesome buildings on their land, j Most of the houses, we understand, are i owned by absentees ; and one of the worst | evils of absentee proprietorship all over the Colonies has been that absentees not only are bad proprietors, but prevent their neighbours from improving their properties. In the Clnuese quarter in Lower George street, Sydney, we notice that the City Council have recently condemned 51 similar rookeries, and we trust that no influential interests will be allowed to prevent the City Council froni following so good an example.

Reports of yesterday's local courts and other matter will be found on our fourth page., The Hons. Mr Hisiop (ai.iiiisr.er of .Tusmuc), Mr Fisher (Minister for Education), aud Mr iV-r^as (',', ■'.So'j.^a Minisrur; riaawc »„.,: ~*,,-- -putations yesterday. In tuo afternoon they paid a visit of inspection to the Industrial School. As will be seen by a telegram from our Wellington conespondent, a Cabinet meeting is to be held iv a few days, and the three Ministera at present in Dunedin may be expected to leave here to-morrow.

An inquiry into the fire which destroyed Seeger's restaurant in Princes street on the 2Gfch December last was held yesterday. The jury came to the conclusion that there was not suflicient evidence to show how the fire originated. The civil sittings of the Supremo Court were resumed yesterday, when two cases were disposed of. In the case of Murray v. Gilmour, the defendant failed to appear, and judgment was given for the plaintiff; and in the other case—The Trustees and Executors of Alexander j Inglis (deceased) v. Mary A. Inglis—an order ! was made to carry out certain paragraphs in the plaintiffs' prayer; the terms of the order to be settled in Chambers. A sitting of the court in Chambers was subsequently held, when various applications were dealt with. This morning the civil suit Ashcroft v. R. B. Denniston will be called on.

There was a clean charge sheet at the City Police Court yesterday morning. Our Lawrence correspondent writes :—" An old labourer named James Clyde, residing at Tuapeka Mouth, died suddenly on Friday evening lust under the following circumstances: Clyde came home from his work and sat down to ten. After he had eaten a little he complained to his wife that he felt very unwell, and that he could not take anything more to eat. He rose from his chair and lay down on a sofa, after which he never spoke. Mr W. H. Revell, coroner, held an inquest on Saturday. Dr Blair stated that the deceased's heart was very much affected, and the disease of that organ had been the cause of death. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the- medical evidence."

A meeting of the West Harbour Borough Council which was to have been held last evening lapsed for want of a quorum. The " Herd Laddie " is delighting the draughts players of the Peninsula. The largo room at the Portobello Hotel is crowded by eager spectators while the champion is playing. Mr James Dickson, after a hard tussle, managed to draw an exceedingly well-played 'game on Monday. Mr Wyllie will remain in the district till Friday morning, when he returns to play the match in Watson's Hotel against 12 of the best players of Dunedin at the same time. We understand this interesting encounter is creating quite a stir among draughts players generally, so there is sure to be a larga attendance to witness the performance. Play will commence punctually at S o'clock. Mr William Montgomery (says a writer in the European Mail), who has now retired from political life, and, it will be remembered, was formerly a member of the New Zealand Parliament, is now among us, and has, I understand, with his family, settled down at Eastbourne. In this connection it may be interesting to note that his sou is a leading student at Oxford, and has had the honour of being selected to lead off a discussion on Imperial Federation at a meeting of the well-known Oxford Debating Society. Mr Montgomery, jun., by the way, is a New Zealauder by birth. The Christchurch Press states that Charles Hunter, who last week attempted suicide by hacking his throat and arm with a pocket-knife, escaped from Ashburton Hospital ou Sunday afternoon. He went to Mr Cambridge's house, aud asked for the loan of a sharp kaife, a request that was not complied with. The police were informed of Hunter's escape, aud Constables Smart and Sullivan went in search of thu fugitive. A large number of the residents of AUeutou'turned out to assist iv the search, and finally Hutiter was seen dodging his pursuers in a cornfield near Mr J, Tucker's residence. The suicidal runaway was captured aud taken back to tha hospital. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says that by the death of the Hon. Henry Cowper, late M.P. for Hertfordshire, and only brother of Earl Cowper, the immense Cowper estates in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, aud Yorkshire, together with the princely Eeats of ! Wrest aud Panshanger and a palace in St. James' square, will hereafter devolve (Lord Cowper being childless) on Mr Auberon Herbert, who married Lord Cowper's eldest sister. "It will be interesting to see (says this correspondent) whether the prospect of this great inheritance will modify the theories of society and property which Mr Herbert bits hitherto preached and to some extent practised."

During the recent troubles in Trafalgar square, London, tho attention of the comman-der-in-chief was drawn to tho announcement that some of tho metropolitan volunteer corp s were ordered l>y their commandants to parade iv order that tho men might he sworn as special constables. His Royal Highness gave directions that such parades are to be immediately dismissed, the men being informed that they must if they think proper to do so, offer their services individually. The Duke of Cambridge has directed tho attention of volunteer commanding officers to the oflicial regulations of tho volunteer force, which direct that though volunteers, in common with the rest of her Majesty's subjects, may be required by the civil authority to act as special constables, tb.-y must not, when so acting, appear iv uniform. The regulations further lay down that the civil authority is not iv any case entitled to call upon volunteers to act as a military body in the preservation of peace. In reference to the new oil company being formed at Gisb&rne, the following Sydney telegram appears iv tho Poverty Bay Herald:— " Great interest if, taken here iv consequence of the overflow at t!;*.- South Pacific Petroleum Company's well. An entirely new company has been formed with a capital of £300,000. A large inquiry is already being made for shares, and no difficulty it is thought will be experienced in allotting the lull number."

Superstitious people iv Paris believo that the recent imbroglio was due to the fatal influence of that unlucky number thirteen. This is the thirteenth year of tho Republican Constitution, and M. Grevy, having used up twelve Caoineta since he was made i'resideut, was trying to get up his thirteenth. The double occurrence of tho unlucky number makes the situation doubly dangerous. Hence everybody wan afraid of taking office, and M, Grovy resigned to save himself and Franco.

A German excursionist has just completed his tour round the world. He went from Berlin and back iw Brindisi, Alexandria, Aden, Singa-

pore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and Bremerhaven, The voyage took him 185 days, and his expenses amounted to £160, or a littl-j under a pound a day. He says the tour can be done for less, but not comfortably.

A terrible drama, the cause of which is yet unknown, was enacted on November 19 at the fencing school, situated at 23 Hue do la Chausseo d'Antin, Paris. A good many people were taking lessons, wheu a gentleman named Kigaud came in, and walking straight up to M. Chazalet, the master of the establishment, fired a revolver at him. M. Chazalot fell dead, shot through tho heart. The three assintant masters at onco ru3hed towards tho murderer to disarm him, but with three more shots Kigmul wounded them all seriously, especially M. Alphonso Dalbert, who was shot through the body. Tho bullet, entering his back, came out just below tho left breast. With the last bullet remaining in his revolver tho assassin shot himself through tho head.

A movement has been set on foot in Canada for the establishment of a central Imperial journal for the concentration of the opinion of, and facts relating to, all parts of the empire. The journal would be published in London, but its articles would he written iv Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the other parts of the empire, aiirl enhh/] there. Soruitorsaml members

Pftrliainciiil, tin) major of Toronto, the I'rosi-

(lent of tbci fi.,;ird oi Trade,Mr GoUhvin Smith, Colouol Gzowski, and Btr Henry Blackburn, who is on a lecturing tour, were to hold v meeting iv ToroDto to arrange details.

A mau has been arrested at Queanbeyan, New I South Wales, on a charge of forgery committed in that town, and turns out to be identical with a man who in April 1886 committed several bank swindles, among others the altering of a cheque for £12 to £1200 after it had been initialled by the ledgerkeeper. The mau, whose real name is Ebenezer Dirsett, admits the fraud, ami states that when in Melbourne shortly after the swindle he became alarmed, and thinking that the numbers of the notes paid to him by the teller might be known, he enclosed twenty £20 notes to the manager of the bank, and with the balance of the money in gold took the French mail steamer to Marseilles and went on to Paris. He was there shadowed by several detectives and eventually thought it was best to return to the colonies, and did so by way of England. He travailed through the pastoral districts disguised as a swagsman, committed other swindle?, and evaded arrest until reachiujr Queanbeyan. The retion for slander against Mr \V. K. O'-'C^U?. M.P ,I T OolT"! T. p TWinir. in connection with alleged slanders uttered by the right hon. gentleman in the course of hip speech | at Nottingham recently, in which lie referred to the conduct of Colonel Dopping during the I Gweedore evictions in Ireland lately (says an English paper) is likely to end in smoke after all, the right hon. gentleman having sent a humble apology to the gallant colonel. It seems as if Mr Gladstone's apology was wrested from ' him by a letter from the colonel's solicitors. The apology, it may be added, withdraws the imputation that Colonel Dopping used a loaded rifle, and regrets that he did not by express words exclude that imputation and explain that his meaning was altogether different... The chief Horns in Mr Gladstone's letter are as follow :— 1. The idea never crossed my mind of imputing to you the use of a loaded rifle, or what is possibly implied in such ease, and I regret the pain to which you have been subjected on this account. 2. I regret also that I did not by express words exclude that imputation and express that my meaning was altogether different. 3. I should wish the fullest publicity to be given to theso declarations, and consider that it falls to me to give this publicity.

John Taylor, a young msn, got very drunk on a recent Saturday night at Woolongong, N.S.W., and in endeavouring to find bis way home, fell clown on the [railway line about half a mile from Bulli. When he fell he had not enough strength to rise, nor sense enough to know the danger he was in. He fell asleep with his left arm across the outside rail of the line, and a passing train some time afterwards crushed the limb completely off. Taylor was so drunk that he did not feel any pain, although his arm had been taken off near the shoulder. He lay in this drunken stupor all night, and did not loso much blood, because the veins were closed through the arm being so terribly crushed. On Sunday morning, even, the effects of liquor had not left him,'and he was seen walking about near where he had slept. He felt a pain, as he thought, in his fingers, an<\ looking down, discovered his loss. Search was made for the missing limb, which was lying between the rails. The senior constable conveyed the injured man to the hospital, where he is now progressing favourably. The writer of " Echoes " in the Home News remarks:—" Barnum's show has once more been burnt down. But that is no reason why the newspapers should make fun of the showrnani and hint that the disaster will mke him a fine advertisement. It is true that the cosmopolitan caterer for amusement combined with instruction has been most nnfortunate-inthe matter of conflagrations, and that he has hitherto shown a Phcenix-like power of rising from his ashes. This time, however, such losses have been sustained that the process of resuscitation will be more difficult than usual. Three elephants, including the sacred whitey-brown specimen, have been roasted, and Barmim can now sing'with genuine feeling,' But, Alice, whero art thou ?' for' Jumbo's wife' is also said to have perished. Perhaps, though, when all the 30 elephants lately reported to be now wandering about the neighbourhood of Bridgeport aud ' tossing' the unfortunate inhabitants are recovered, Alice will prove to be among them. Then the lion which made use of his new-found liberty to go and kill his own dinner has been ruthlessly slaughtered during the meal. So that altogether, it will be seen, Barnum has suffered losses more difficult to repair than if he had merely lost the ' What is it ?' or the ' Mermaid,' or the club with which Captain Cook was slain. Nevertheless we have complete faith—a quality which the showman loves in his customers—in Phinehas Taylor Barnum, despite his nearly SO years. The genius who, when Jenny Liud could not show herself in public, engaged her double in order that the great American people might not be disappointed, will not; ho overwhelmed by his troubles. In a short, time, doubtless, ho will have ransacked ludia, Africa, and Siam for more hippopotamuses, lions, and elephants (white and otherwise), and the show will be on its legs again." There was a largo sale of Jacobito Manuscripts at Edinburgh last Wednesday (says Truth of December 1), but very low prices were realised, as there was so much mystery about the history of these documents that hints were freely expressed that they were not genuine. I hear that in reality they belonged to the Campbell family, and that, early in the present century, they passed by some mijchauco into the hands of a firm of Edinburgh writers, who were the agents for the owners, and they were bundled away, with a mass of old papers, into a cupboard, where they remained until they were cleared out long afterwards by a clerk, who seems to have appropriated them, and now, after the lapse of many years, they were offered for sale. I wonder how manj other documents of jreat historical interest have been lost in the same way? The highest price on Wednesday was £1115s, which was paid for the original Proclamation issued by Prince Charles Edward, at Dalkeith, in 1745. A Proclamation of Oliver Cromwell, " Given at Duubar" in 1650, fetched £5 10s; and £9 was given for the Oath of Allegiance to James VIII. signed in 1715 by Baimerino, Chmy Macpherson, and six other chiefs. After the Jacobite papers had been sold, a number of letters written by Sir Walter Scott to his agent, Mr Ferrier, U.S., were offered, and they realised high prices. They all related to his privato affairs. It seems very questionable morality for people to put up letters of this kind to public auction. Not long ago an album was publicly sold in London which contained upwards of a hundred private letters which Dickens had written to his confidential solicitor, about purely family affairs. They were purchased by an American, aud many of them were printed in some of the New York and Boston journals, and they would have been reproduced in London if Miss Hogarth, the legal representative of Dickens, had not taken prompt steps to stop their publication.

A lodge of sorrow in memory of the late Bro. W. Cftldwell is to be held under the District Grand Lodge of Masons, S.C., on Friday eveu-

The emotional and scenic drama " Uncle Tom's Cabin" was repeated at tho Princess Theatre lust evening to a. full house, the dress circle being remarkably well patronised. The performance was similar to that given on tho previous evening, and does not call for further criticism. Miss Swain as Topsy created much amusement, and her singing was, as usual, much admired and applauded. Baby Ogdeu as Eva again astonished and greatly pleased the audience, and the other characters were sustained as on the previous evening. The farewell performance of the company will be given tonight, when the drama will be repeated. The Lynch Family Bellringers, who are now visiting the various towns overland to Inverciugill, appeared at the Town HalJ, Lawreuee, on Monday evening, before a largo and enthusinstic audience. Great regret was expressed that they could not remain another eveuing.

The agents of tho Uelcn Detmy advertise that all claims must bo rendered nt once. Messre J. A. Duthie unii Co. will Efill wool and sheepskins at Miltou on Saturday. Mr D. 11. Spudding will sell plums this morning at liis rooms. Messrs James A. l'nrk and Co. will sell a v.nrietvof booliß on Saturday. Mr Montagu Pym will sell on Thursday a number of bulbs: on Friday he will offer Venetian art glassware, porcelain, Ac. Tho Jinilway departmeut announce special concessions in connection with the Balcluthsi races oil tho Mtli inst. A Bjieeinl train at very cheap rates will be run iti couucctlon with llio Tiwpokn races on Iho I'ltli inst.

Messrs J. W. Wilson and Co. will sell horses at Baloiutha on Friday. The Misses if'Oair reopen their school fit Oamam on the 7th February. Miss-Lowe resumes her dancing classes during the second weelt in February. Attention is directed in another column to the sale of unimproved lands to be held on Friday, January 13, at Wellington, when 12,000 acres near Otaki oil the Wellington and Manawatu Haihvay Company's line,~wlll be sold by Messrs T. Kennedy Macdnnald and Co., at their roou.s, 31,'itmers street. The laud is all superior in quality, and the terms of sale 10 per cent, cash and the balance in seven years at 5 per cent, penimnim are such as should meet with tbe approval oi intending buyers. Those wishing to inepeel tlio Jauil will beiakeu overlie company's line at greatly reduced mt.i-s. Lithographic plans with full information will be supplied ■ n aiiiiliiiitton.it l!i.. MlKeeu! this paper, or frnm Messrs A Kimuedy rvJ-imbiu-.Mii:.ilC\i., WflliHKloii. I'loiaecall ami sekrt your joints uui-Iy and have tlipm delivered, at from ad ).er Ib. Depend on sausages l>ein« fiosli daily. Mcllmume sausages at Id. Corned beul'mui corned pork oi Lite very best quality and loivcst prices for cash. Preserved n'leals, lib, 21b', Jib, 61b tins.—A, DomiWELL.—[Auvi.]

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