NOTABILIA.

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 38, 4 June 1881, Page 411

NOTABILIA.

— The ladies of Auckland are invited to in« specfc the new and choice selection of drapery just opened by Messrs. Shalders and Son. — To be or not to be ? that is the question. To be, of course. I must go and buy some of those ex« tremely cheap articles at 92, Queen-streefc. — " Pine no more," but go at once and give Lepine, the tailor, of Grey-street, an order for a suit of clothes. Material and workmanship guaranteed, at moderate rates. — Old wood to burn ! old wine to drink ! old friends to trust ! old authors to read ! but not old clothes to wear, when yoti can go to Mr. Ford, the tailor, in Queen-streot, and get a suit made to order of the best material and workmanship, at a most reasonable rate. — Spirit-rapping and rapping for spirits is performed nightly at the Nevada Hotel. The pro« fcssional medium (Signor Henri Richmond) is always in attendance. Spirits raised at sixpence per head. — The syrup of eucalyptus, with hypophosphites of lime and quinine, prepai'ed by Mr. Graves Aickin, of Queen-street — wonderful in its effects for chest diseases— is rapidly being appreciated in the Southern portion of New Zealand, to which part large quantities of this valued preparation is sent. — Found, a green purse with fourpence in money, a postage stamp, and pawn ticket for a flat iron. Anyone describing the contents may have the purse, on application to Messrs. Partridge and Woollams, of Queen-street, who supply the best cigarette tobacco in Auckland. —"Not lost, but gone before." So spake a young lady on the wharf the other day, as she watched her engaged ring roll into the water. Did she cry ? Not a tear._ She walked right away to Singleton's jewellery shop, in Victoria-street, and bought another at less than half the price her young man had paid for the one she had lost. — What says Shakespeare? — "A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, a living dead man ;" and this is the appearance of any man suffering from dyspepsia. Take care, therefore, that you use bread made with baking powder. That widely known as Hudson's Baking Powder is the best. Try it. — It is not true that the well-known firm of Munro and Milligan have contracted to supply 1,000,000 fur lined great coats for the Fijian natives. The firm has quite enough to do to supply the Auckland natives - and having just received a fresh supply of goods, a visit to the establishment, in the Karangahape Road, might lead to satisfactory results. —"Diseases, desperate grown, by desperate appliances are relieved." These words, so feelingly spoken by Herr Bandmann in " Hamlet," reminded me on reaching home, that I was suffering from a severe bilious attack, and there's no doubt that is a desperate disease. However, one box of the liver pills, prepared by T. B. Hill, at his Pharmacy, in Queen-street, vanquished the enemy. And all -who suffer from dyspepsia, biliousness, hypochondria, or lowness of spirits should try them. — When Stanley found Livingstone in the wilds of Africa, the brave old explorer had hardly any covering for his feet, and was delighted when Stanley gave him a pair of boots. It is supposed by persona who were intimately acquainted with Dr, Livingstone that he fully intended to have all his hoots made by Garrett Brothers, of Wafcefiald-street, their leather being of everlasting wear. Unfortunately, however when the learned enthusiast started on his exploration ti'ip, the firm was not in existence.