NOTABILIA!

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 77, 4 March 1882, Page 396

NOTABILIA!

A team of cricketers from the Auckland Club is expected to proceed to Tauranga, and play a match there during Easter week.

Mr Samuel, the cutler, who was nearly burnt out a few ttays ago, is now selling off his damaged stock at prices that will surprise anyone with the slightest knowledge of the prices usually paid for good cutlery. Knives that are only slightly touched with water are being sold at less than cost price.

Mr R. 0. Greenwood will sell, on Tuesday next, at 11 a.m., valuable farms at Woodstock ; also, a large quantity of first-class household furniture— a splendid opportunity for persons entering into housekeeping. The sale will take place on the estate at Hunua— 21 miles from Auckland by rail— and luncheon will be provided for visitors.

We have received a copy of the penny timetable for March, and notice among other additions, new times for the Suez mail, and the steamer Tongariro running to the North Shore, and the other information of 'busses and railways added to and revised. This is a really most useful penny-worth to any man, woman, or child, in Auckland, and is for sale at all stationers in the city.

Persons who use stimulants that do not invigorate the syateni, do themselves more harm thaii good. Stimulants should oversoine organic irregularities, and produce a soothing re-action on the nervous system. Medical men being aware of this fact, are loth to prescribe ordinary stimulants, which are fas a rule) unproductive of lasting benefit. Crawford's renowned sarsaparilla tonic is now acknowledged one of the best stimulants in Auckland.

They sat together in the Domain reading the Obsehver, when he suddenly exclaimed " Look here a good suit on the deferred payment system ! " Where ? said she. "At Muuro aud Miiligau, Hobson-street," wasthereply. "Is it a wedding suit?" she lisped ramming her greasy head into his shirt-front. "No," dear, it is a business suit," said the deluded one. " Oh ! " she replied, giving her head another ramification of shirtfront, "I meant business." They were duly operated on by the parson last week, and now they are— well we hope happy.

American Waltham Watches were awarded Two Gold Medals, the only medala awarded to Exhibitors of Watches at the Melbourne International Exhibition, 1880. The only Gold Medal, also Three Special and Pour First Prizes, Sydney t International Exhibition, 1879. The Gold Medal Paris International Exhibition, 1878. Four First Prize Medals, Philadelphia International Exhibition, 1876, Higher awards than any other Exhibitors Of Watches ever received. Buyers will observe the Trade Mark — " Walihak, Mass." — plainly engraved upon the movement of all Genuine Waltham Watches. Trade Mark, Waltham, Mass., registered throughout the New Zealand * and Australian Colonies. Proceedings will be taken against vendors selling, or offering for sale, Watches bearing colourable imitations, or infringing our rights, —American Watch Company, Waltham, Mass.

A rumour was circulated in tlio city the other day that Mr William Garrett, the head of the firm of Garrott Brothers, the well-known boot and shoe manufacturers, of Wakefield-street, had given up his legitimate business and turned miller. A special was sent to interview Mr Garrett in order . to ascertain his reason, and, on meeting that gentleman, our reporter thought at first there was grounds for the rumour, as Mr Garrett was covered from head to heel with what appeared to he flour, and expressed his regret that Mr Garrett presented such a correct representation of a native of the floweiy land, adding — "Why, Mr Garrett, if we lose you, our understanding will not be worth a rap." The eminent purveyor of boots laughed, and replied: "I have not the slightest idea of. .chsaifft&jD my business, and my appearance is easily accoui»bt)d for. You see so many persons com© in to purchase^ boots that we are compelled to fceep large quantities of French. ' chalk. We have juat got in a few tons, md one of the ton butts fell on me and smothered, I am." The reporter left and wendfed his way home, thinking about Aunaniae and Saphira, qnd muttering to himself, " What a large consumption of boots and shoes." -■ ■

— The attempt to fuse those discordant elements (the views of Good Templars and Licensed Victuallers in the matter of selecting Licensing Commissioners here), can scarcely be called a pronounced success. A programme comprising the names of " moderate men was submitted to a 'committee, when a prominent Licensed Victualler astonished some of his friends by taking exception to the names of those who happened to belong to the Eoman Catholic persuasion. Pressed tor his reason for making this invidious distinction, it transpired that it was to conciliate the views of a certain popular purveyor of the staff of life, who, though not a G.T., happens to be a leading man with the other party, and whose very tolerant notions impelled him to make the above stipulation with the enemy. — It is not often that a journalist is taken for a parson, but such was the case at Te Arohe the other day. An official in the mining department arrived at the goldfield's township one evening in persuance of his duties, and at the evening meal at the local pub. sat opposite a solemn-visaged, clerical-looking individual, hailing from the Land-O'-Cakes. The Thainesite felt certain that he was in the presence of a minister of the Gospel, and conducted himself accordingly, his behaviour being so exemplary that one or two of his acquaintances present remarked the fact when he was out of hearing. On returning to rest, the man of mineral was shown into the Scotchman's room, in which was a spare bed. Still being under the impression that his room-mate was a " gentleman of the cloth," the Government functionary eschewed his usual cigar and novel before throwing himself into the arms of the drowsy god, and extinguishing the light turned over, muttering to himself something about a "rummy go," and. " just like his luck." Very early in the morning he was awakened by his compagnon do cliaviber moving rapidly about the apartment, and uttering maledictions loud and deep on the worthy Boniface for neglecting to supply his bed chambers with more modern articles of toilet use. The string of expletives — more terrible of course, from being made use of by the clerical looking individual — was something awful, and so unnerved the official that he immediately rushed to the bar and recovered himself by the aid of two or three sherries-and-bitters. Subsequent enquiries elicited the fact that the man with the solemn countenance was none other than a well-known newspaper scribe from the Waikato !