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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 391, 2 May 1879, Page 3

RATS! RATS I RATS! IT is a well-known fact.that these interesting and destructive animals know a good cheese from a bad one. Dairyfarmers and stationholders can purchase the means for their extermination in the shape of spring and wire traps ; also mouse and other traps, tea trays, shaving brushes, enamelled fryingpans, fencing staples; glass and crockery, ! mustard-pots and spoons, candle moulds, coal tar, pruning knives, parlor and kitchen fenders, coffee-pots, wax dolls, I lamp-black, butter boats, At ECONOMY HOUSE. JUST RECEIVED direct from Home (via Dunedin and Christchurch) every description of fancy goods, sewing machines, toys, brushware, perfumery, .cutlery, musical instruments, violin strings, an exquisite, magnificent and gorgeous assortment of watches and jewellery also stationery of all kinds, works of truth (to suit a good many .tastes), including " Sunday at Home," "Leisure Hour,""Chatterbox," " Children's Friend," "Band of Hope," " British Workman," also bibles, prayer and hymn books, &c. H. BILLENS. AGENT for Mr W. ROBERTS, WATCHMAKER, Manchester street, Christchurch, who for cheapness and skilled workmanship is not to be equalled. All orders punctually attended to and work guaranteed. H. BILLENS, Licensed to sell arms, amunition, and everything necessary to make a crack shot. Also, blasting powder, drills, hammers, &c. ECONOMY HOUSE. On hand—-just received—to arrive— Tobaccos, best brands, strong and mild, With titles numbering near ninety-five, To name all, 'tis too much for this child. Cigars also, oh, my, what a crowd, The flavor of which I declare Is equal to (stop, not too loud), Well, the dinner which was given by the " Mare." Pipes—wood, clay, and india rubber, With meerschaums, so sweet that a Venus Might even (if she thought he would love her) To her "Johnny" give one .(that's / between us). Then there's matches (with care what a blessing, But at times are the cause of a pop up, As last week in our town, how distressing ! When that man tried to burn down the lock-up). A thousand for ninepenee of wax In a tin box (bless me, how they do it For the money, my brains it does tax)j Yet at that H. B. sells and don't rue it. A thousand to one you don't beat it Either in or around Akaroa, So a shilling don't give, I repeat it Which for ninepenee you get at my store. Doors, sashes, mouldings, architraves, ridging, spouting, galvanized iron, 5 to 9 feet lengths, T & G flooring and match lining, carpenters' ami builders'materials of all kinds, paints, oils, glass, and paperhangings. Agent for the Standard Insurance Company and " New Zealand Wesleyan." BTATIONERYj_BOOKB, AC. WIGGINS AND CO., WHOLESALE AND BETAIL " BOOKSELLERS & STATIONERS, HAVE ON SA L E and to . ARRIVE, the LARGEST and most varied assortment of Stationery and Books ever imported into Akaroa. Writing Papers, all sizes and descriptions ; Mourning, Note, Foreign Post, &c., &c. Envelopes—blue and cream, in all sizes and qualities, from 3 to 12 Card, Paste and Mill Boards Visiting Cards, ladies'and gentlemen's Mourning Cards Paper Bags, Luggage Labels De La Rue's Playing Cards, 2s 6d per pack, or 12s 6d per half doz. SCRAPS for albums, in great variety, very cheap Note Paper, from 5 s per ream Envelopes, from 12s per 1000 Public bodies, storekeepers and large consumers supplied at reduced rates. Supplies contracted for. Samples and Price List on application. Gift and Reward Books. A large supply to arrive per next steamer. School Committees dealt with on liberal terms. $g* Note the Address— Booksellers and Stationers, WIGGINS & CO., Mail Office, Akaroa. N.B. —Open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ON SALE, at the office of this paper, FORMS OF OBJECTION TO VALUATION LISTS, in accordance with the " Rating Act 1876." WIGGINS & CO.