C mditional praise. —An enterprising soapmaker of New York daubed the recks all the way up the Hudson with the appeal, •• Use Smith’s soap •” whereupon his rival, the still more enterprising Jones, after much cogitation, started his white-washer up the river to append to each of Mr Smith’s appeals, “If you can't, g. |i Jones's” By thp ship Cfty of Apckjaud, whigh left Auckland on 7th December, the proprietors of the Evaiuuj Star c.espatohed a pa>r of carrier pigeons, requesting Captain Ashby to set them at liberty two or three hundred miles from the coast. On the evening of the 9th one of them rctu ned sifely to their owner, Mr H, Brett, who resides in Parnell." attached to eaoh of the bird's 1 gs was a short memorandum, stating that they were let loose 150 miles from Auckland,
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Evening Star, Issue 3095, 20 January 1873, Page 2
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139Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 3095, 20 January 1873, Page 2
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