NOTABILIA

Observer, Volume 2, Issue 41, 25 June 1881, Page 456

NOTABILIA

— On Monday next- Mr 11. C. Greemvood •will sell at Papaknra Valley a large quantity of farming aud other implements. —Friend Mick Gallagher, of the Thistle, has a big thing on in Hop Bitters. Bourbon whiskey, and other "drive away dull care" medicines. Sick and afflicted invited to roll up. American Waltham Watches were Awarded the Only Two First Prizes at the Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880-81, being Higher Awards than any other Exhibitor received, for watches. — What to wear now the winter has set in, is the question asked by all the ladies. A visit to Messrs Munro and Mulligan, Karangahape-road, will answer that question in a highly satisfactory manner. —The "quid" that Dick Deadeye looks for every night, in the "Pinafore," and doesn't find, conies from the well-known establishment of Partridge and "Woollanis, who keep the best brands of chewing and smoking tobacco. — The yearly income of the Duke of Westminster is £1,095,000 ; and that of Mackay, the American silver man, £2,533,000. But that is no reasoii why you should not give Mr Ford, the tailor, an order for a cheap and good suit of clothes. — "I thought I'd leave my measure on the floor," said a toper when asked why he had fallen down in a tap room. Our tip is, go and 'leave your measure with Jack Phillips, for one of his famous 55s suits, worth £5 ; or a pair of those marvellously cheap 13s 6d trousers, to be had at 170, Queen-street. — The fashion now is to wear earrings that are not pairs. Thus one earring may be formed of a large sapphire circled with diamonds, and the other, of different dimensions, of a ruby circled with diamonds Mr Singleton, the jeweller of Victoria-street, lias alar^e and choice assortment of earrings and ladies jewollry. — Government House is to be fitted up for the reception of the Admiral of the detached squdrou, and Harry Richmond is handsomely fitting up the Nevada Hotel for the reception of the officers, where they will receive a hearty welcome from genial Harry and as much liquor as they like to drink— and pay for. — It is rumoured that the youthful workin°people intend presenting the energetic sergeant who acts as Inspector of Workshops, with a medal, and the material will be applied by Messrs Garrett Brothers, ™J?Ff leather merchants and boot manufacturers, of wakeneld-sfereet, who will have a hide tanned on purpose. — A lioman Catholic priest, to free himself from the great labour of confession in Lent, is said to liave given notice to his parishioners that on Monday he should confess the liars ; on Tuesday the misers • on Wednesday the slanderers ; on Thursday the thieves • on Friday the libertines ; and on Saturday the bad women His scheme succeeded ; none attended. — A gentleman, who had been travelling in Russia, on his return to Auckland, told some friends that he had visited two villages named, " Karnskonstojeeharkowleskonsk" and " Sonioletscb.ikatskobe.lli- £ ow -, ** only required one bottle of T. B. Hill's famous Cough Elixir to clear his throat and get his voice in proper order once more. —-In a miserably furnished apartment lay an old man on the point of death. "My son," said he to a young man standing near, " I am leaving you little of this worlds goods, but, after my death, open this packet, and benefit yourself and mankind." The packet when opened, was found to contain the recipe for HudT*rfwi» t 6 fire at Tauranga one of "Tann's office asserted i*, 8 * "^ in theßaiJ °f Plen *V Times omce, asserted its supremacy as a safe and rMi«Wp oftSsafe b°e r Son^ ld 7 a \ U % c aiticl^ eontente or tne sate being found intact after the fiery ordeal it had establishment of Messrs E an| A. Isaacs whohaveblen appointed sole agents for the sale of them Trade Mark, Waltham, Mass. - The land, . Proceedings will be taken agaSrt 2nv w£