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Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 4, 28 March 1885, Page 6

W. RATCLIFFE.] [C. W. FERRIS. WM. RATCLIFFE & CO., Auctioneers, Stock, Station, Land, estate, and general COMMISSION AGENTS. LICENSED NATIVE INTERPRETERS AND LAND PURCHASE AGENTS. Licensed Land Brokers under “ The Land Transfer Act.” Agents for — The Imperial Fire Insurance Company of London. The Australasian Mutual Live Stock and Marine Insurance Society. Limited The Accident Insurance Association of New Zealand The N.Z. Plate Glass Insurance Company The National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, Limited Speight’s Dunedin Ales Tomlinson’s and Hayward’s Glycerine Sheep Din The N.Z. Rubber S’amp Company The N.Z. Industrial Gazette &c., &c., &c. Offices : Gladstone Road, Gisborne.

“ GREAT CRICKET MATCH.” To Messrs Common, Shelton V Co., W. F. Crawford & Co.. And. Graham & Co., Graham. Pitt, Bennett & Co., Parnell, Boylan & Co. GENTLEMEN, —The extraordinary exclamation sent forth by you in accepting our friendly challenge, takes us rather by surprise. The magniloquent and ponderous collections from Johnson, Walker, Webster, and Worcester, which are hurled at us, makes us feel as if all the merchandise (including all the hogsheads of beer) in Co«k County had fallen from a baloon, and burst on the devoted heads of the wholesale dealers, to occasion such a literary effusion. We must give our friends to understand we never anticipated such a “ thrilling ” thunderbolt descending on our frail bodies. We must also give them to understand nature has not so deprived us of our five senses as to make ourselves merely a source of “ amusement to the public.” We would likewise wish to inform our friends that the challenge was not given with the view of “ arousing enw in the breasts of all who aspire to become Wielders of the Willow or Trundlers of the Leather.” Suffice it to say, we will be on the “ tented field ” to meet you with all your famed forces “ in full battle array.” E. J. BERESFORD. J. R. SCOTT, E. P. JOYCE, T. J. DICKSON, Representing the Licensed Victuallers Team.

TURANGANUI HOTEL, GISBORNE. SITUATE AT THE CORNER OF HARRIS STREET AND READ’S QUAY, CLOSE TO THE WHARF, Commanding a most picturesque view of the TuranganuLand the Bay. —:o: — FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATION FOR FAMILIES & BOARDERS. Only the Very Best Brands of Wines Spirits Beer, &c., kept in Stock. S . DeCO S T A , (LATE OF THE BRITISH HOTEL, LYTTELTON) PROPRIETRESS.