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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 218, 20 August 1878, Page 3

OH! MY, HERE WE ARE AGAIN! ALL ALIVE I ALL ALIVE! Kind friends, one and all, you will please to take notice, That in Akaroa, 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 capsize, 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 ; Then 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 of 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 stonebreakers, putty in bladders. 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. AKAROA BOROUGH COUNCIL. TENDERS are invited for the following works: — 1. For the Construction of a Bridge over Aylmer's Creek in Jollie street. 2. For the Lighting of the Lamps in the Town of Akaroa. Plans and Specification for No. 1, and a specification for No. 2, can be seen at the Borough Council Office. Tenders endorsed "Tenders for Bridge " or " Lighting Lamps," as the case may be, will be received at the office of the above, not later than 5 p,m. on Wednesday, the 21st instant. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. JAMES F. ROBERTS, Town Clerk. Akaroa Borough Council Office, Aug. 13, 1878. WANTED. TENDERS for Clearing and Trenching the Pigeon Bay Cemetery. Specifibation to be seen at the Schoolhouse. Tenders will be received by the Chairman of the Cemetery Board up till Wednesday, 28th inst., at noon. JAMES PITCAITHLY, Chairman.