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Star (Christchurch), Issue 1476, 20 November 1872, Page 1

NOTICE. GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHES SCOURED, CLEANED, &c. ■j\/TRS PASCHE respectfully begs to intimate -LtX that she still carries on this business, just below the corner of MADRAS and TUAM STREETS EAST. 6703 TONIC SOL-FA. PRELIMINARY MEETING. Tonic Sol-fa — The True and Easy Method for Sight Singing. ALL persons interested in the above are particularly requested to attend a Meeting to be held m the Temperance Hall, Gloucester street, at a quarter to Ei<*ht p.m. on FRIDAY, 23rd. Mr S. P. ANDREWS, M.P.C., will preside. Business — To form an Association. 6748 DISTRICT ORDER, OWING to the Drill-Shed having been lent for a Meeting on Thursday night, the Inspection Parade ordered for that day is POSTPONED until THURSDAY, THE 28th, At 7 o'clock. GEO. PACKE, Lieut.-Colonol. Militia and Volunteer Office, 1 Nov. 19, 1872. DRAIN PIPES %^i a YARD. I. B. SHEATH, Colombo street, Tuam street T^AMILY HERALD. TjiAMILY HERALD, Weekly Id. The " Illustrated London News," in reference to pure literature speaks of "The Family Herald, that joy to tens of thousands of innocent English households." T^AMILY HERALD, Monthly 6d. The " Saturday Review' aya " The Family Herald stan Js at the head, both in age and popularity, of all the penny serials. * * * The Editor is the confidant and confessor in every station of life. The Answers to Correspondents cannot be fictitious, a romance and a life history being embodied in aim' at each of them. * * * Its novels and tales are quite as well written as the best circulating library stories." TjIAMILY HERALD, Annually 7s 6d. The "Literary Gazette" says : "It must be said of the Family Herald that it is the purest reading of all purely amusing literature ; it is indeed a family paper." XpAMILY HERALD, Weekly Id. The "British Quarterly Review" says: " Under the head of ' The Story Teller,' we have novels and tales simpler and purer in structure than in the pages of the other penny serials. * * * There are charming verses let into its pages, like sunshine, to brighten them. * * * It is well considered with reference to its aimß, and ie various and amusing, with a fair amount of utility intermixed. Of all these publications we are inclined to consider the Family Hbbald the best." T7IAMILY HERALD, Monthly 6d. Leigh Hunt, in his Autobiography, says : I" I call out every week for my Family Herald, a penny publication qualified to inform the best of its contemporaries." T7IAMILY HERALD, Annually 7s 6d. The "Bookseller" says : "For amusing reading, such as may be admitted to one's household without fear of consequences, we can recommend the Family Hebald. You get portions of a well-written novel, novellettes, useful information, interspersed throughout, answers to correspondents, alone worth the money, and a variety of other matters, which will make readers either merrier or wiser, or perhaps both." London: W. Stevens, 421, Strand; and by Order Qf ftU Local Booksellers and Agent*. 9708