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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 692, 14 February 1881, Page 3

According to official documents which have been published, General Sir Frederick Roberts discovered, while in occupa-. (ion a,t 'Cabul, a secret treaty for an offensive and defensive alliance, signed between Russia and the Ameer .dated August; 1878 .j also a letter from the Russian General Stolietoff (sic), dated in October of the (same year, advising Shere Ali to sue for peace with England, but at the Bame time to secretly prepare for war. Other papers which were found, moreover, show that the Bussain policy included measures to incite an armed rebellion of the Mahomedanß in India ItEMINISCKNUES 0» VVJUiUWi'MN.—In the year 1845. a worthy citizen piqaded his way with some difficulty through fern and ti-tree to Te Arq Hat baing in search of the survey's which liad been driven in "at the corner of what is nqw Cuba and Pixon streets,_" Upp,n this spot was erected a small. houso, in which a very successful drapery business was carried on by two ladies of remarkable talent and energy, who have long since rotired from the scene to the land of thoir birth—"Land o» the mountain and the flood, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. In the year 1866 it passed into the hands of MrJajto Surra, the present proprietor, who gave to. the premises the appropriate name of Te Aro House, and under whose management busings has steadily progressed with the rising fortunes of the city, until at length h) wa.s found that a considerable enlargement was necessary, and the result'was,'le Aro'House, as at present, oneof the most complete and Extensive Drapery Establishments in the colony of Now Zealand. The 'Jeneral Drapery occupies a largo space, being 49 feet by 25 feet, amply sufficient for all Manchester goods, Fancy Dresses, Silks, Gloves', Hosiery, Ribbons, Laces, Ac, Tho Men's, Boy's, and Youths' Clothing Department measures' 24 feet by 14 feot, and has attached a coml nrtable fitting-room. Carpels and Household furnishings have a similar space allotted to them, The Show-room for the saje of Milliuery, Mjinjlps, ilaokotiv Costumes! &c, is averyspaolous apartment,"'elegantly fitted up, and beautifully; lighted from'the roof, and measures 39 feot by 22 feet. The stock of goods' s at all times large and well selected, and patterns aro forwarded post froe on application. A special featnro at Te Aro House is the Order Department, and .very careful attention is paid to the wants of Country Residents, Allordersaro executed under flip immediate supervision of the proprietor, and securely packed and forwarded c:itheir destination'with' 1 that prbtapmess and despatch which have always : distin guished Te Aro House, Cuba-street; Welling on.—[advt.l !

I BEG to tender my sincere thanks to the members of the Fire Brigade and. others who assisted in extinguishing the'fjre in my houso on thb evening of-theDth inst 69f ''-'-' '' r THQ3. fl. D'ARCY. WANTED.-ANi ? litwatchman. Apply ' sliarp to' Empire Hotel!' ' . 1 392 THE Executors oE the late WILLIAM '• BEAD WELCH request all persons kavjng Claims against his 'Estate. to.Tpnder Accounts without delay to ' ' '''" ' '■ M . : EpWARD pARGE. Wellington, 10th February, $92 LOST.- A Yellow Sheep Bog, Answering ' to the nap of " Bob,"; 'Anyone re* turning the same tp : H, f', Jones, Te Ofe Ore, will he rewarded, ' .062 Toabd] '•' , DB-; : H;A N B A -T-'T.'.'Yy LK. m Licentiate in Midwifery* of :tho' .King',an'd Queen's College of Ehy'sibians; Ireland', 'and also* of the. Botu'nda.Lying-in .Hospitaj, : ^ j; "*;-;/' , DivHAMnrban the Boydßotel;;ia^the.^edioßl £ Hall(Jeirtlierv: *lav. ■■;? ■■■■ r-.*f:'ttUL