SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1542, 20 January 1887, Page 2

SYNOPSIS OF ADVERTISEMENTS.

Geraldine Town Board—Notice re valu*. tion list. . ' ; ' '( , 'S; Buxton; Rsngitata Island—lnvites ten* ders for harvesting, : "! J " ‘ Perry Davis—Notice re painkiller: remedy lor cholera morbus, etc.. . * John Murray, Manager Orari Station— Innte tenders for harvesting. J. H. Dean, Woodbury—Notifies that he will hold monthly or periodical sales. j. Patrick Collins, Milford—lnvites tenders lor cutting 130 acres grain At Milford. J. Sperrey, Property Tax Commissioner— Important notice to property tax defaulters. John Lawson, Poundkeeper, Temuka— Notice re 8 long-woolled rams impounded from Mr J. A. Young’s farm. ' J. Mundell and Co.— Will sell Deering reaper and binder on Saturday next; notify 1 that all moneys due for the Clydesdale stallion Strathmore moat be paid to them ; also thatjthey are agents for Kennedy’s Champion Washer; and give prices. : T. and J, THomison, Timaru—Notify that they have just opened shipments per direct steaoiers lonic and Rimutaka, bought in London sit a sweeping reduction. The shipments comprise lines of fancy, dresses, ManChester, mantles and, underclothing, fancy goods i etc. They bare also bought a splendid assortment of goods (specified) at a reduction of from 20 to 50 per cent, in the local market, and which will bo pold at far less than wholesale prices,.

.Paddy Murphy only pokes him under the ribs and laughs up in bis face iu such a Jroll, good-humored sort of way that creates no ill feeling, Paddy Cot’s Budget and Zozimus two , Dublin publications now defnnct—may be taken as the prototypes of Paddy f-Murphyi The Annual is dedicated as follows TO WILLIAM THE GREAT-THE PEOPLE’S KING. ' An’ watobed the white breakers at play, ’ Me mtod' With tbe watbers took motion, An’ laip’d with the waves far away ; Me thoughts with the billows kept iwellin’, ’■! A vision o’ sadness an’ joy Appeared—all the present dispellin’— I dhraim’d of ye, Billy, me boy. I saw in the distancejan island O’ershadow’d with sorrow an' gloom, 1 Dark clouds bung o’er valley an’ highland, r An’brooded o’er Liberty’s tomb ; ; | Foul Discord’ black venora was krsWiri’, i An’ Raooour Bthrived hard to deithriy The So w! of a nation in'ruin— ‘ " ! " ’lwas pitiful, Billy, me boy. i ‘ Green Erin—a' dad CiDdberella— Was spurned be her sisthers so proud, , . , ( An’ Paddy—a poor ragged fellow— I Was robbed be tbe lordlings an* cowedj Fierce bigots were sowin’ dissension, ; The[wheels of industhry to cloy, ! j An’* sorrows, too many, to miption, - - j Were Billy, mo boy. Ibe Mother of Saints an* of Sagss ; No longer was lovely an’fair, i Her blood-clotted hiathorj’s pages, .. She stood on the brisk o’ dispair— Whin out sthrode a mighty Magician I With wand o’ pure goold—no alloy — 1 Paioe, Union, an’ Love was bis mission—(’Twas you darlint, Billy, me boy). \ Thin wavin’ his wand o’er the island, | The shadows an’ clouds an’ the gloool r Clear'd off from Bitch valley an* highland,,' „ An’ Freedom leapt out of her tomb ;! Britannia an’ Scotia kissed Erin, • Exclaimin’; •“ Wb’ll never annoy. , f j Our Sislher: our love she’ll be sharin’,”> ’lwas beautiful, Billy, mo.boy. ! ■ ■ j : V' r: “- An’while on the sight I .wbs gaiip’, /1 I A banner waved over the scene, The sunburst of .£rin was blarin’ . -■ ! / O’er meadows of oranga an’ green V j The shamrocks clung close to the lilies, i The butthercups peep’d out sonsy’ i i,: : Through the grass, an’ tbe daffydowndiljiqi; Were smilin’, fair, Billy, mo boy. j .j.. Me vision soon faded, an’, wakin’, j, t j ' Isat wherel rested before, { The enow-crested billows were breskin’,! ~ , An’, leapin’along the! white shore, ;! j I mused From this Southern Star-land 1 v , I’ll sind. jbhija small thjribule of joy i To Freedom’s great chief iu the Far-laaq,” Ho take it, dear Billy, me boy. ~, . ! It is needless to say that this is intended for Mr Gladstone, and in it there is more poetic feeling than iu any other piece that Paddy Murphy has written. 1 We find but bne fault in it, and that is ,addressing ,Mr Gladstone as. “ Billy.” The rhyme would have been as good had : he used “ William ” instead of “ Billy,” and the poem would bare been, far more dignified in its tone, and more worthy of the great man to whom it is addressed, However, one of Paddy Murphy’s peculiarities is to do things different'’from other people, acd tbis. metier, which is only of taste, will be generally overlooked when the excellence of the remainder of the piece is considered. Anyone desirous of procuring some pleasant reading ought to get a copy of Paddy Murphy’s Annual.