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Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1202, 10 December 1873, Page 3

REED~& BRETT'S AUCKLAND ALMANAC FOR 18 7 4. TH E Publishers beg leaye to announce the approaching publication of the second number of this Almanac. In doing so they desire to express their extreme gratification and gratitude for the unexpected reception accorded to the first i=sue. In submitting to the residents of the province the first number of what they were determined to ultimately make a household necessity, they had calculated on meeting with a certain amount of apathy, and incurring no inconsiderable loss; and in printing two thousand copies of the Almanac they had expected thatat least a thousand would remain on hand to be given away gratuitously. It was, therefore, with surprtse they found before the half of tbe first month of the year had passed that every copy had been sold, and that orders were pouring in from all their agents requiring almost an equal number to that already supplied, a demand which it was found impossible then to meet owing to the type having been distributed. Instead also of a pecuniary loss it was found that there had resulted a very considerable profit on the first issue. Encouraged by such results the publishers have no longer hesitancy as to the extent to which they may venture in the endeaTour to make their annual an unrivilled hand-book for the province, and they are resolved that the coming number will fur excel its predecessor. It is not their purpose to indicate the several points of excellence that will characterise their Almanac for 1874. Suffice to say that through their agents, enquiries by correspondents, and a special commissioner proceeding through the various settle inents, the information respecting the several districts will be of the most extensive and exhaustive character, while guided by past experience the publishers have made provision for the supply of any additional demand for the publication that is likely to arise. As the agencies of the EvENiNO Stab., which will be agencies for the Almanac, are now extended al! over the province, the distribution of the issue will be prompt and general; and as it is not the object of the publishers to make any pecuniary profit by the transaction, but only to produce that which will be beneficial to the province, interesting and useful to the public, and indicative to their own enterprise, they confidently rely on even an increase in the cordial and substantial encouragement afforded to the first edition. REED & BRETT, Publishers. MpHE CHEAP HARDWARE HOUSE. J. & J. DICKEY Solicit the attention of parties Furnishing to their LARGE STOCK OF TABLE CUTLERY, ELECTRO-PLATED AND NICKEL SILVER SPOONS, FORKS, ETC., ETC., ETC. JOSEPH ROGERS & SONS' IVORY HANDLED TABLE & DESSERT KNIVES. LOCKWOOD BROTHERS' IVORY HANDLED TABLE & DESSERT KNIVES. JOHJS WIGFALL & CO.'S BONE, HORN, AND STAG HANDLED KNIVES AND FORKS. LOCKWOOD & HARRISON'S POCKET KNIVES, In great variety. CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON'S CELEBRATED SCISSORS. HEIFFOR'S & ROGERS' RAZORS, SALT & SONS' IVORY HANDLED BUTCHERS STEELS. THE BEST ASSORTMENT IN THE CITY. Two tons of Kniyes, &c. to choos* from. DOWNER'S KEROSINE. (Th« only safe Brand), TO ARRIVE, PER HINDOSTAN,' Star Kitchen Ranges and Register StoTes. AUCKLAND HARBOUR BOARD. SAILS FOR PILOT CUTTER. Harbour Board Office, Auckland, Bth Dec, 1878, HpENDERS will be received at this -L office until THURSDAY, the 11th instant, at 12 o'clock noon, for Supplying a suit of Sails -for the Pilot Cutter. Further particulars may be obtained upon application bo CaDtain Burgess, Chief Harbourmaster The lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted. Tenders to be endorsed " Tender fcr Sails for Pilot Cutter." WILLIAM C. DALDY, Chairman. P R E L I M I N A R V NOTICE BEST QUALITY AT THE LOWEST PRICES. - - • . ■_ , ■■ pHRISTMAS FRUITS & SPICES, KJ SUPERIOR TE AS for the Million of surpassing purity, strength and flavtor. ■ Also, General Groceries bought at a low price in an over-stocked depressed market. Our New Price List will be shortly published in the daily papers. ; With pleasure wo acknowledge the liberal patronage accorded to us, and we hereby make known that we hare resolved to retail the very best quality of General Groceries at the Smallest Profits and Lowest Prices. itSTPlease Note our Address:— FRENCH & CO., THE PEOPLE'S TEA WAREHOUSE, QUEEN STREET, AND BRANCH STORE IN THE MARKET. HP HE PEOPLE'S DISPENSARY Junction of Queen and Grey-streets, (In front of the New Market.) MR. A. M. WILLIAMS Begs to inform his numerous friends and the public that although he has been burnt out " twice" he is not yet consumed, and that he has THIS DAY RE-OPENKD his Dispensary in those Brick Premises in front of the New Market, which is now replete with a SELECTION OF PURE DRUGS CHEMICALS PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS, PATENT AND FAMILY MEDICINES, &c, &c, and trusts to meet with a continuance of that confidence bestowed on him for the past nine years. itarObserve the Address :— JUNCTION OF QUEEN AND GREY-STREETS.