THE WESLEYAN BAZAAR.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2127, 1 March 1870, Page 2

THE WESLEYAN BAZAAR.

The new Post Office Hall, now that the stalls are stocked, looks quite inviting, and on examination of the various stalls we observed many elegant and useful articles that are seldom to be met with in the ordinary course of business. The stalls are ranged in two straight lines on each side of the Hall, and are dressed with care and taste by the ladies presiding. On entering the room, on the right-hand side is No. 1. Mesdames Fitchett, Haynes, and Walker have the care of this stall. It is well furnished with attractions for young and old. There arc papier naache tables and trays of elegant workmanship, plated tea services, sofa cushions, hassocks, coseys, anti-macas-sers in various colors book shelves, and one very elegant and curious model of a Chinese pag 'da, in soap stone. No. 2.—At this stall Mesdames Thompson, Tenner, and Calvert conduct the business. I here is hero a large assortment of dolls and toys for girls and boys, amongst which is a good-sized farm-yard. There is a beautiful sofa cushion, auti-macassers in great variety, and fancy goods sufficient to make a good show in a respectable-sized shon. . . No. 3. —Mrs Massey and Mrs Higgins offer equal attractions with their neighbors, and, although the small wares are the same, there are specialities. There are ottomans, tea services, rug work, crotchet work, a very good mirror m leather frame, coseys, cushions, a handsome rocking chair in colonial wood, and an elaborately ornamented child’s cradle. No. 4.—Mrs Watson and Mrs Towers have on sale cradles, perfumery, pipes and their necessary fuel, splended footstools, ottomans, rug work, wax flowers that look like real ones, and fruit that tempts to disappoint. The interstices are filled with dolls and small ware. \ O . s.—Mesdames Coventry and Roberts have equally genuine fruit as their fair competitors at No. 4 ; but at both sta Is taken together the supply will n- -t overstock the market. At this stall there is a great variety of ornamental frames in leather-work. They at present grace a number of engrav ngs, but might be transferred to more valuable art productions. Here also may be had babies’ baskets, a handsome devotional chair, sofa cushions, and handsome photograph album, No. 6.—Mrs Brodie and Mrs Chapman take the superintendence of this well-stocked stall. Here also are a numbet of beautiful picture frames in leather work, a handsome clock for a mantelpiece, opossum rugs and comfortable jackets for cold jdays, and a collection of ferns carefully preserved and arranged—a very handsome present for a friend at home. Amongst other rarities is an Elizabethan chair, which we venture to say will he keenly looked after. It was presented by Mr H. J. Bain, and the frame* •work is of colonial wood finely polished. Here also maybe had a good sized papier mache writing table. No. 7.—Mesdames Beck, Adams, Palmer, and Johnson, from Port Chalmers, have a large assortment of Fijian curiosities for sale shells, mats, native dresses, &c., a coc-a-nut tobacco-box, Tom Thumb’s sleepingmachine, wool mats, &c. The refreshment stall is in the inner room. Mr Begg has lent a piano, and music will he provided, so that either business may bo prosecuted or pleasure enjoyed.