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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 674, 29 December 1882, Page 4

TTV C o N 0 M V • TJ plu S E, SELLING OFF! SEfCiNG OFF!! Great Bargains FOR GHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR, BEING heavily overstocked, special inducements will be iriven to purchasers. A splendid assortment of Christmas Groceries and New and Seasonable Drapery, at Christchurch Prices NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED, Because it is exceedingly necessary that a large amount of goods must be sold in the smallest r mount of time. To carry this into effect, the prices will be such that the people will be drawn irresistibly, even as by ye electro biologist, and the desired effect will be attained. It is needless to observe that CASH will be taken, if it can be got within reach of; not but that we do a little booking sometimes. . " What must be, must"; yet it seems a pity that merchants are so persistent in having their little bills settled "up to the knocker." It wculd save a lot of trouble if we could have all things in common. Seeing, then, that gold must be had " by hook or by crook," while thanking the people for their liberal patronage in the past, H. B. trusts that they will be even more liberal during this Christmas season, so that the goose may not become a red herring. There is no necessity to go over the list of goods kept in stock, as everybody knows "that everything for every clay can be had at Economy House. It might be as well to state that a small consignment of Performing Monkeys will arrive per Antelope. Also, that a g and lot of FIREWORKS, from Id to 10s each, are on hand. SPECIAL NOTICE. H. B. has been appointed Agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. No comment is accessary on the quality of these machines. Their wonderful merits are becoming more widely known and appreciated every df>y, and there is no doubt that if the sun does not fall into the comet and swallow up Mr Proctor, that the time will come when the Singer Sewing Machine will be the only machine in use. All extras and needles kept in stock. PRIZE BOOKS! PRIZE BOOKS!! H. B is prepared fco supply Books from Messrs Whitcombe & Co.'s catalogue on the same terms, and deliver them to any part of the Peninsula free. Also, Toys, Lollies, Biscuits, and Tin Pannikins at special prices for school treats. CHRISTMAS and NKW YEAR'S CARDS, from Id each, &c, &c, &c. I-I. BILLEKS. HT.aS.Ii. aml M. Company "\T EW ZEALAND LOAN AND 1?N MERCANTILE AGENCY COMPANY (LIMITED). CAPITAL ... £3,000,000 RESERVE ... £200,000 MAKES LIBERAL CASH VANCES on. Freeholds,.on Sta tions and Stock, and on growing clips of Wool. RECEIVES CONSIGNMENTS of j Wool/ Grain, Tallow, Leather, Hide 3, Skins, &c, for sale in New Zealand, Australian, and London Markets. UNDERTAKES INDENTS of British, Continental, East Indian, and American goods, and Counmis sions in all Branches of Mercantile Busjpess o 6UPPLIFK WOOLPACKS AND CORN SACKS, at lowest current rates. Particulars on application at the Com pany's Offices, Cathedral square, Christchurch, or tc W. H. HARG REAVES, Akaroa. James Duly ON SALE. npHE usual well assorted Stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Special Lines in Useful Drapery, Clothing, Boots and Shoes. &c. Groceries and Provisions. Ironmongery, Glassware, Crockery. Cocksfoot, Rye Grass, Clovers, Timothy, and Garden Seeds. Highest price given for Grass Seeds and other Produce of good quality. Fire and Marine !r/sunmce Agency. T 'V M E ti -p_ A L V, O U AKAROA.