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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3152, 4 August 1881, Page 4

POOD AND FEEDING IN TEE EAST. In six weeks I was as much at home as if I had been a Mahometan all my life. > I formed friends, had little tiffs and jealousies with my companions in the household —we all having the same interests, and even eating out" of the same plates, without offering to bite, though the disposition to do so is so strong as to be barely under control. Darwinite3 may safely take my word for this .act, and are at liberty to make use of it as a startling annlogy. My trenchpr mates were a blind Moulvi (Doctor of Divinity") _ and a gentleman with only two fingers on his right hand the only one with which a Mahometan may take food. I had, with infinite pains, worked this myself, thinking I woul■) stand a better .chance ; but the first time I sat down I found T had immensely Tinderrated my friends' abilities, for I never saw two men with such an alarming capacity for curry and rice, or who showed such extraordinary skill at putting it away. At first I was a little fastidious, and had rather a prejudice in favor of not seeing a greasy black hand scratching merrily among my food. I did not seem to enjoy it as much as I ought; however, it was only a prejudice which I had to overcome. I began by imagining lines drawn over the dish, ■separating a corner of it to myself and operating inside these hounds. This sort of thing did not last long, the two-fingered gentleman's two long fingers would come ambling along through my little rice wall before I had got my third fistful swallowed ; or the Moulvi's skinny hand would wave like a mesmeric pass over the dish, scatter grains of rice that had stuck to his fingers from the last mouthful over it, and then alight on my most meaty morsel, a piece I had perhaps had my eye on from the first; but it would have shown greedy haste on my part to have taken it so early in the play. No, I hadn't a chance with these two thieves, for they got away five-sixths of the mess every meal, and with such grace too. 'Bless you,' they would say, 'how little you eat, Mohammed Amin !' as they shared the last mouthful between them.—> Six Months in Mecca, by T. F.

Mr T- X, Newton's Sales. BOOTS* "OOOTSt OOTS I JLJOOTS . JUST RECEIVED A LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF ENG. LISH and COLONIAL-MADE BOOTS, SPLENDID VALUE, TO BE SOLD CHEAP. T, K. NEWTON. W T. K. N B wT° "' AUCTIONEER, Land, Stock, Estate, and General Commission Agent. Sales held in town and Country. Advances made on Consignments or immediate sale. Account Sales rendered promptly. All descriptions of Station Stores supplied at current rates. T. X, NEWTON. Drapery. INCONTESTABLY CHEAP SALE AT CAMPBELL'S NEW DRAPERY WAREHOUSE, Emeeson-stheet. FOR ONE MONTH. A.C. desires to intimate that he has made LARGE REDUCTIONS in prices of all his WINTER DRAPERY as the public are no doubt aware that Goods will be more or lesa injured by keeping them over till next Winter— TO AVOID THIS I will offer the remains of my WISTrtR STOCK at DESPERATELY LOW PRICES. g£T Remember, tho Uooda are all new, havinsr been purchased during the last twi> months so that this is an opportunity seldom offered to th« public of JNapier. BLANKETS and FLANNELS, ULSTERS and _,«„_-, JACKETS, DRESSES and REDUCTIONS skirts, UNDERCLOTHIN ING & CORSETS, GENTS' HATS and TIES. GREAT REDUCTIONS IN E^fcIiYTHING. 1 GREAT REDUCTIONS AT CAMPBELL'S NOTICE. ALL - 1 ccounts due to me must he paid on or before the 22nd August to Messrs Cross and Smyth, who3e receipt only will be a sufficient discbarge, or legal proceeding will be taken without further notice. T. A. SHIRLEY. NOTICE. TRESPASSERS on the Poukawa Estate will he prosecuted- Poison is also laid in the Paki Paki Swamp. HUGH CAMPBELL. May 14th, 1881. NOTICE. ALL Persons found trespassing on this Run in pursuit of Game will be prosecuted. GORDON H. SAXBY. | Te Kopanga, May 1,1881. NOTICE. FROM this date all Trespassers with Dog or Gun on tho Pawakire or Waiohiki Reserve will be prosecuted H. L. DONNELLY, The Willows. April 28th, 1881. F. GRAHAM, (Late of Watson & Co.) T)EGS to announce to the Inhabitants of HaveX> lock, Hastings, Puknhu, and surrounding districts that he has commenced business as GENERAL STOREKEE PER. Being well-known in the district, F. GRAHAM trusts to receive the samo liberal patronage as before accorded him. NOT! THH ABBBBSS .'— K® NEXT DOOR TO HAVELOOK HOTEL. ■$»