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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 249, 6 December 1878, Page 3

The following is said to have actually occurred : — Affable reporter, with new black coat, to station-roaster: " Anything new or fresh this morning ?" as he opens ■ his pocket-book and whips out the pencil, i "Yes; that white paint you are leaning j against. It appears that the Ashburton taitchers, in a pet at having made a number of bad debts, have taken the extreme course of stopping " tick " altogether, and declining to send out meat. Whereat a local poet thus remonstrates with the men of -suet: — " Don't think because a big bad debt Doth mark thy beef exchequer, That thou must take a sulky pet 'Gainst every townsman's pecker, And close thy tick 'gainst old and young To rectify thy ledger. And only carve for solid coin That's dubbed up to the butcher? " Nay, if a shicer folds his book Upon your, monthly money, Then foldyonr arms with stolid look When he asks chops, my honey. But do not treat us all alike — Trump card nnd cheating sinner— Send down the man who pays his way llis usual cut for dinner.*. " If you won't, then coineoue else must, My dainty Knight o' the Cleaver, And wh .n he conies, you safely trust To have drawn your final stiver Of Ashburton coin. Tin's little game Won't make you any richer, For meat will work our jaws the same From some more civil butcher. -' You're right to stop unmeasured * tick And never more to wag it, But start your round again, my brick, With butcher boy to,nan it. The public .temper when aroused Is far from being a stretcher, So warning take before you're doused My plucky little butcher." WANTED, a BOY about 14 or 15 years old, to milk cows and be otherwise useful. Apply to THOMAS BOOTIIROYD, Old Pigeon Bay road. AKAROA REGATTA, IT is requested that all SUBSCRIPTIONS promised for the above purpose may be paid in to the Treasurer without delay. HERBERT B. BRIDGE, Hon. Sec. and Treasurer. HEAD OF THE BAY RACES. /COMMITTEEMEN will please send V_y SUBSCRIPTION LISTS in to the Secretary by December 11, with - the amount of their collections. JUST PUBLISHED, THE SOUTHERN PROVINCES ALMANAC • FOB 1879. P.RICE TWO SHILLINGS. THIS Almanac, which has been considerably enlarged in size, will be found superior to any other publication of the kind within the colony. GARWOOD & CO. FOR SALE. A PEDIGREE BULL, five years old, bred by — Bluett, Esq., of Leeston. Apply to W. BIRDLING, Barry's Bay ; or BIRDLING BROS., Little River. LITTLE RIVER ROAD BOARD. TENDERS are invited for Carting land Spreading 2000 yards of Road Metal at Ahuriri. Specifications "at John Archer's, Little River ; Forbes' Store, Tai Tapu; and at tbe office. Tenders to be sent in not later than noon on Monday, the 16th instant. JAMES WILSON, Clerk to the Board. JOHN NIXON. TO THE PUBLIC OF AKAROA. I MAY intimate that I have got a firsWass assortment of GOODS' comprising Cheviot, Julias, and West of England Tweeds, and I now offer them at £5 10s per suit. Having dealings with a firm in Dunedin, and.not taking my goodb secondhand, andhaving no outlay for extra, labor, I can offer those goods at 80 per cent, cheaper than you caii get them in Canterbury. English Tweed Suits, £5 10s. Trousers and Vest, £2 ss. COME AND SEE,