Mr. Charles Bonnington, of Wellington, has just imported one of the greatest musical novelties ever introduced to the colonies. It is a piano of the ordinary cottage shape, of splendid tone and brilliancy, but in addition to being a piano of a very superior kind, it is fitted with elaborate machinery, after the principle of the musical box, and plays about thirty tunes. There is nothing unusual in the appearance of the piano. When the machinery is set to work and closed up, the keys on the keyboard move just as if they were being struck by an invisible player, and the notes are produced by the hammers striking the wires at the back in the ordinary manner. The instrument is by Lacape, of Paris, and its price is £200.
TO PRINTERS. WANTED, a good PRESS and JOBBING HAND, for a country paper. For particulars, apply Mail office, Akaroa. WANTED, a good General SERVANT. Apply to MRS. HOOPER, The Brewery, Akaroa. WANTED, to PURCHASE, a BUILDING SITE, for residence, in or near Jollie-street, Akaroa. Address, Alpha, stating terms, office of this paper.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 82, 1 May 1877, Page 3
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182Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 82, 1 May 1877, Page 3
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