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MM. WEBSTER, • Trafalgar-street. 1140 FURNITURE! FURNITURE!! i. - EX MAGNA BONA.-NOW ON SALE :— \'i Cases very superior Scotch-made FURNITURE, comprising— I Mahogany Chairs, covered in hair „ Easy Chairs, in hair and leather \ „ Couches and Sofas, in great variety ! „ Sideboards and Cheffoniers „ Loo and Square. Dining Tables ' „ Chests of Drawers, including one very handsome, with spiral. pillars and deep drawers, large size Mahogany and Beech Night Commodes, and About 800 Feather Pillows. Also on hand — A large assortment of Cane and Wood-seat Chairs, Rocking Chairs, Tables, Looking Glasses, &c. Observe— 1 At HENRY HOUNSELL'S, Bridge-street, Nelson. 725 BOOKS! BOOKS!! BOOKS!!! THE following Just Received, and NOW ! ON SALE:— 0, ■ Leisure Hour, vol. for 1864 Sunday at Honqe do. Leech's Liter Penciljings from Punch Graver Thoughts of Country Parson, 2nd series Islimael, the Yezidee, by Mrs. Webb Liddell's History of Rome Macaulay's Lay* of Rome The-New Globe Edition of Shakespeare Half Hours with Best Authors The Family Save All Node's Seaman and Merchant's Measurer Thackeray's Lovel, the Widower Jacob's Flight, or a Pilgrimage in the Promised Land, by Mrs. Beke Diary of Kitty Trevelyan, by the author of the Schonberg Family Timb's Walks and Talks about London The Saint Germain Legends Recreations of Christopher North Thackeray's Pendennis Do. Virginians Cruden's Concordance, by Eadie Chambers' Journal, the new vol. Max Muller on the Science of Language. 3. HOUNSELL, 988 Trafalgar-street. ICTORIA FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, Established 1849, Capital £200,000; and the VICTORIA LIFE and GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Capital £2,000,000. Unlimited Liability of Shareholders. Eead Offices : 82, Collins-street East, Melbourne. Chairman: The Honorable Hgnrt Miller, M.L.C. Fire, Marine, and Life Insurances effected at the lowest current rates. Forni3 of proposal, and every other information to be had at the Office of the undersigned. THOMAS B. FISHER, Agent for Nelson. Bridge-street. 580 SUBURBAN NORTH DISTRICT ROADS BOARD. NOTICE ia hereby given that a MEETING of the VOTERS in the above district will be held on MONDAY, the 3rd of July, at Noon, at the Schoolhouse, Tliackwood, to ELECT THREE MEMBERS of the Board, in accordance with the provisions of the " Country Roads Amendment Act, Session V, No. 12." In the event of a Poll being demanded, the Polling will take place the same day, at the above Schoolhouse, and close at 5 p.m. EOBEET POLLOd, Chairman. June 12, 1865. 1074 •jVT ELS 0 N COLL EG E . Tho following oonoijArvcixura win oe UPEN for COMPETITION in JUNE next, by youths wherever born or resident, but the successful candidates must be or become students at the College to entitle them to hold them : — 1. A Foundation Scholarship, of £20 a year, to be held for three years, and competed for by youths under fifteen years of age on the day of election. 2. The Stafford Scholarship, of £20 a year, to be competed for by youths who havo attained the age of fifteen, and to be held for three years, provided that tlie holder shall write an Essay, to the satisfaction of the Principal, in each of the last two years, on some subject of Modern History ofthe scholar's own selection. The EXAMINATION of CANDIDATES for the above will take place at the College on THURSDAY and FRIDAY, the 29th and 30th June ; the Winter Holidays commencing on the Monday after, and lasting for three weeks. By order of the Governors, BOBEET POLLOCK, Secretary. May 8, 1865. 853 SIXTYCi ASES~S ADDLERY, BOOTS, SHOES, &c, ex ROSE & Steamer AUCKLAND, VALUE £2500. £ «. d. ~ Peat's Saddles (cash) 7 0 0 Australian do. 6 0 0 Do. do. ... 5 0 0 Do. do 4 0 0 •; ■ . Do. do. ... ... ... .... 8 0 0 Silver-mounted Gig Harness ... ... 8 0 0 Brass ditto ditto 7 0 6 Cart Harness ... ... ... 5 0 0 Waterproof Blankets, Gig Aprons, Saddle Bags. 24 cases of superior made Boots, suitable for the Diggings, consisting of— Grained Nugget Boots Grained Wellingtons Grained Half Wellingtons ) A large assortment of Watertights Gentlemen's superior Riding Boots, Wellingtons, Elastic Sides, Balmorals, &c, &o. A choice lot of Ladies' Elastic Side Kid and Bali moral Boots Boys' and Girls' strong Leather Boots 1 Goloshes, Felt Boots, Fur-lined Slippers, Ac. Wholesale and Retail. p PE AT & THO R N T O N, ' Bridge-street, Nelson. 1006; 1 IITE; J. HOUNSELL, BOOKSELLER, • JJIL- has been appointed AGENT for tha COLONIST^ newspaper. A regnlar supply can he obtained immediately after each publication. Trafalgar-strMt, NaTMabar 17.