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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 217, 16 August 1878, Page 3

IMPORTANT SALE OF DAIRY STOCK. MR 0. W. BRIDGE has received instructions from Messrs Goodwin, Scott, Porter, and Chadfield, to offer by Public Auction, at the Head of the Bay Yards, on MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1878, The following very superior and well selected Dairy Stock, &c, &c, &c:— On behalf of Mr James Goodwin : — 28 Young and well bred Cows and Heifers, in calf to a pure bred bull On behalf of Mr Scott :-— 20 Good and well selected Cows and Heifers, in calf to bull bred by Hay Bros. 7 Store Cows and Heifers 8 do. do. fat On behalf of Mr John Porter :— 20 Superior Cows, springing to calf _ Yearlings 1 Bull On behalf of Mr W. G. Chadfield :— 16 Good Cows and Heifers, springing to calf 1 Steer, 2 years 7 Calves 1 Bull, 8 years Sale at 11.80 sharp. Terms at sale. I OH J MY, HERE WE ARE AGAIN! ALL ALIVE 1 ALL ALIVE I Kind friends, one and all, you will please to take notice, That in AJcaroa town, just near the Postoffice, Is a shop next Jim Daly's, right facing the sea, Called Economy House, and it's kept byH.B.; Or " Venus " and " Smilings " sometimes is the name By Sundowner given, of Akaroa fame; But which one is right shall not hinder my tale, Which is all about goods I am offering for sale. To advertise all the assortment I keep, Would fill both the papers sold here in a week; So a few leading lines just now I will mention. If you want to save money, you'll please give attention— I've butter and eggs, blue gum pills, and white paint; Bananas, and salts for people that faint ; With flat irons, and traps for rats or for mice ; Axes, handles, and wedges, with boxes for spice, Brushes for painting, blacklead, or for boot; Cough lozenges, kettles, and guns that will shoot; Glue, lemons, and paper all gilt for your walls ; French nails, soothing powders, fireworks and bradawls. And besides the above, all sizes of glass, With toys tin and wood for lad or for lass ; And, would you believe it, oh, shocking to tell— Wedding rings, puffs, and boxes, and scent for to smell; Tobaccos all brands, as cheap as five bob, And, cheap though they be, can compare with Ja-cob. While one argument clear, and well to the point, Twenty facts will oapsize, if by Nalder or Joynt. Nest eggs, Bull's-eye lanterns, for R-m-s-y and R-fF-le, Who in Chinamen's gardens sometimes have a scuffle. Iron bedsteads, and needles, with knives of all kinds ; Stick lollies, boiled oil, and fittings for blinds ; Thea watches and clocks, I would have you to know Are sold by H. 8., who will warrant them to go ; With crockery and powder for gun or for blasts, And tinware ot all kinds, jujubes and wood rasps, Milk pans, shell cushions, and combs called S. T. Plated spoons, picture frames, spectacles for to see, Also goggles for stoncbreakers, putty in bladdera. With plaster of Paris, and maul rings " be jabbers ; " Lamps, glasses, and shot, also hair oil and churns ; Pumps, blacking, good razors, with trowels for ferns ; Buck-saws, with glazed sashes, and best kerosene; Sulphur, picks, tar and mattocks, with watering-pots green ; Then augers, pipes and goffering irons, with lots of garden tools, Engagement rings and valentines as sometimes used by fools ; Glass mustard pots, with cricket balls, and lemonade that cools, With every kind of books and plant for children going to schools. I've Pens steel and quill, with good ink for booking; Also Indiarubber and saucepans for cooking, With pans for the dust, but, oh my poor eyes, If I don't stop at once, I must apologise. So good-bye for the present, with thanks for past favor, But I hope by low prices and genteel behaviour To have a share still, and don't let it be small ; If the railway soon comes, there is room for us all.