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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 262, 21 January 1879, Page 3

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! -\T"EW GOODS. NEW GOODS. H olloware, hinges, hairbrooms, hedge knives. B pdstends, Win-king, bullock bells, blue note paper, I nk, ivory rules, iron, galvanized, irons, iht, A L finips, ladles (soup and pitch), lines (lUhiug and clothes), L atches, lanterns, lollies, lamp black, levels, Edge tools, enamelled ware, emery powder, N ails. Nixey's black lead, navvy barbarrows, Nqah's arks, Spades, shovels, saws, scythes,* shot, snuffers, _ bony rulers, earthenware of all kinds, C orkscrews, candle cotton, clothes 0 ilers (machine), oval boilers, oils (kerosene and paint), N, eedles (machine, sail and knitting), netting twine, 0 rnamental goods, Ormolu clocks, oleographs, |fl ilk pails, dishes and strainers, mattocks, V don't you buy your goods at Economy House ? H and bells, hammers, hatchets, hoes, 0 yens (colonial and camp), Oakey's knife hoards and polish, Utensils (washing and cooking), umber, burnt and raw, S ashes, scales, sodawater, scented soap, slashers, Everything from a Chinese cracker to a broomstick. NOTICE 1 NOTICE I Might I take the liberty of calling the attention of my numerous friends to whom I have sent written invitations, and impress upon them that it is of the utmost importance that they respond to those invitations before the end of the month. I need not remind them of the inconvenience, loss of time, money and friendship resulting from the necessity of calling in the assistance of the R.M. and his staff;. yet Ido not see any alternative if the ready is not forthcoming within the above-named period, and I might offer as a special inducement to those whose accounts are above the sum of £2, that I intend to present each one of them with a correct portrait of Her Majesty on the receipt of those accounts ; and I intend for the future to reward all those who pay cash on delivery, by giving them as liberal a discount as my low prices will allow. H. BILLENS, Economy House. DRAPERY, CLOTHING, BOOTS, <Mi at CRITERION HOUSE. THE LARGEST and best assorted STOCK in Akaroa, comprising— Summer Goods of all kinds, Prints, Muslins, Alpacas, Grenadines, Fancy Dress Materials, various costumes, Skirts, Underclothing, a large stock to choose from, Ladies' Silk Ties, newest shades, Cotton and Silk Parasols and Umbrellas, Quilts, Sheetings, Toilet Covers and Antimacassars. MEN'S CLOTHING—A splendid assortment of all kinds of Tweeds, both English and Colonial,"Suits, Trousers and Vests ; also in Boys' and Youths', wehaveallsu.es. White and colored Shirts, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, &c, &c. A job line in Ladies' Sewn Kid Boots, at 10s 6d, worth 13s.' Cheese Cloth and Binding, white and unbleached, Carpeting and Cocoanut Matting, &c, &c. At G. BLACK'S, Criterion House. THE EDUCATION BOARD OF THE DISTRICT OF NORTH CANTERBURY. ELECTION OF COMMITTEE. THE Board, in pursuance of power in that behalf conferred by " The Education Aot, 1877," (section 63) hereby directs that a PUBLIC MEETING of the Householders in every School District throughout the Education District of North Canterbury be held on MONDAY, the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, at seven o'clock in the evening, for the election in each district of seven householders (section 63) to form" the Committee for such district for the year ending with the fourth Monday in January next year. The place of meeting shall be in the Schoolhouse in each district which is provided with a schoolhouse, and this is understood to mean the main schoolhouse in any district which has more than one school. In the districts in which schools are not yet built, the places of meeting shall be as follows:— Aylesbury—House of Mr R. Johnson. Dunsandel—The Hall. Irwell—The "Church. North Loburn—Station of Mr J, A. Cunningham. Seafield—House of Mr W. J. Silcock. The Board further directs that the first meeting of each School Committee be held in the place appointed for the election, and immediately after the election upon the same evening. . The Board requests the chairman of each public .meeting to make to the Board immediately after the election a return of the names of the several householders elected to form the Committee, and recommends that each Chairman of Committee report his own election as soon as possible. J.V. COLBORNF..VBEL, Secretary. ChristchurcKJan. 10, 1879.