NOTABILIA

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 53, 17 September 1881, Page 13

NOTABILIA

— Messrs H. E. Cotton and Co., of Cambridge, advertise for sale, notice of which will be duly given, valuable properties at Hautapu, Banks Country, and persons wishing small farms will find this a splendid opportunity. — Mr F. Fairburn, who for some time past, lias been engaged as road surveyor and engineer by the Government and City Council, carrying out his work with considerable credit to himself, has commenced business on his own account, liis advertisement to that effect appearing in this issue. — The dramatic performance to take place this (Friday) evening at the Choral Hall, in aid of the cricket club funds, is likely to attract a large and fashionable audience, as the best nmiitcnr talent of Auckland and Onehunga will combine to make the affair a thorough success. — " I cannot allow yon more than ten shillings a week for your clothes,'' said a husband to his spouse the other day. "Oh," she replied, " that will do admirably . I can get what I want at once and pny my ten shillings to Messrs Munro and Milligan on their weekly payment system." — The fancy costumes in the window of Mr Liuabury's establishment, have been attracting considerable attention during the week and indeed they are well worthy of inspection, some of the dresses being of exquisite workmanship, and if at any time a fancy bull should take place, we can imagine the rush there would be to secure one of these really beautiful dresses. — The seven wonders of the world are Ihe Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Pharos or lighthouse of Alexandria, the tomb of Mausoleum, the Coliseum of Rome, the Temple of Diana, the Statute of Jupiter bi- Phidias. But there is yet another and that is the Boot Factory of Messrs Garrett Bros, of Wakofield-s^reet, where you can have n pair of boots made while you are enjoying a chat with the congenial William Garrett. — Trade Mahk, AValtham, Mass.-- -The American Watch Comi'asy. of Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.A., hereby give notice that tneir Trade A! arc, " Waltham, Mass." is now registered in tin; Australian Colonies of Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand. Proceedings will bo taken agiiinst any person copying or imitating same, or any vendors selling or ottering for sale watches bearing colourable imitations or in any wny infringing our rights. — American Watch Company, Waltham, Mass. — " What the devil's the matter ?" " Make room," "stand aside," and such exclamations, were all that could be heard around a dense crowd which had collected one day last week in the middle of Que«Mistreet. Everybody was anxiously enquiring what, was wrong, and were nicreeablv s irprisnd to find that all was right, and that the crowd weiv only waitinir their turn to lie measured for a pair of Phillips' 13s Gd trousers, from the new summer '■weeds, which havu just been opened at J. D. Phillips' 170, Queen-street. — A Ecmarkable Fact. Each man has a hobby, so that it has at length come to the point that if a man will live healthfully to a great nge, say a hundred and fifty or two hundred years, he must ent nothing but grapes and drink nothing but rain water. He who advocates the grape diet, contends that bread made with yeast, ought not to be eaten, thnt it produces indigestion and tends to stiffen a man's joints and muscles half a century sooner than if he subsisted on bread made with Sharland's Baking Power, which contains the phosphate element so necessary in the construction of bonos and all the animal tissues. — "Now you have done it," shouted an infuriated parient to his offspring, " Now you have dune it, you young rascal. You have smashed the meerschaum pipe that your grandmother gave me, and I shall never smoke the calumet of peace again." "All right, old man," responded young dutiful, "don't get in a state, I can get it put all rights. I saw a pipe mounted in silver the other day, and it looked first-rate, and I know where yon can have your pipe mended and mounted as well." " Where ?" said the appeased father. " Why at Singleton's |jeweller's shop, corner of Hobson and Victoriastreet. He will mend, mount, and mark it for you at a very moderate charge."