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Evening Star, Issue 3376, 15 December 1873, Page 3

shipping. HARBOUR STEAM COMPANY AGENTS SAMSON, p.g,, forOAMARU, To morrow .. (Tuesday), 16th December. Shipping orders issued till 3 p.m., and cargo received till 5 p.m. on Monday. Passengers by 7.30 a.m. train cn Tuesday. Beautiful star, s.s., for timaru, AKAKOA, and LYTTELTON, on Thursday, 18th instant. PRETTY JANE, for MOLYNBUX and KAI TANGA I'A (taking cargo for Balclutha. Inch-Clutha, &c., at through rates, to he forwarded by drays from Kaitaugata), about Wednesday, 17th December. Offices : Harbour Chambers. SffIiWSSS REGULAR STEAM COMMUNICATION TO BLUFF, INVERCARGILL, AND RIVERTON. ’HE Full-powered Screw steamer WANGANUI will be despatched for above Ports on TUESDAY NEXT, 16th December. Cargo received at Rattray street Jetty. This steamer has superior accommodation for passengers, and carries an experienced Stewardess. H. HOUGHTON & CO. M'MECKAN, BLACKWOOD, AND CO.’S STEAMER’S. 1 EXCURSION Tickets to 2j Melbourne and Back, during the months of December, January, and February. Cabin ... Ll7. I Steerage ... L 8 10s DALGETY, NICHOLS, k CO.. Agents, STEAM TO ENGLAND UNDER 60 DAYS. JHE Favorite Passenger Steamship GREAT BRITAIN, 3,500 tons, 500 horse power, Chas. Chapman Commander, Will be depatched from Hobson’s Bay, On WEDNESDAY, 4th FEBRUARY, 1874. Passengers booked through from Dunedin. For further information apply to BRIGHT BROS. & CO,, Bond street. Messrs money WIGHAM k SON’S (Of Blackwall Yard, London), Line of Steam and Sailing ’ackets, comprising the steamships Northumlerland (new) and Somersetshire, and the ollowing splendid clipper ships, which have •een built and fitted expressly for the Ausralian passenger trade ; Lincolnshire, YoHthiro, Norfolk, True Briton, Suffolk, Essex, lampshire (new), &c. FOR LONDON DIRECT.

Their accommodations for all classes of passengers are unsurpassed, and they will each carry an experienced surgeon. Sailing from the Sandridge Kail way Pier. The Saloon Cabins are fitted with the necessary fixed Cabin Furniture. Passage Orders are issued to persons desirous of sending for their friends from home on application to the undersigned Passage money, £l6 and upwards. A liberal allowance to families, Return tickets are granted at Reduced Rates, For all particulars apply to W. P. WHITE & CO., 10, Elizabeth street south, Melbourne. LITERATURE. PROSPECTUS OF “ THE SOUTHERN MERCURY, ” A Weekly Chronicle ef News, Politics, and Literature. Conducted by Vincent Pyre. UNDER the above title it is proposed to issue an original and independent Newspaper, untrammelled by party influences, and not subservient to any special interest; but having, as its guiding consideration, the general welfare of the entire community. We shall present to our readers all the current local news, and the fullest and most reliable information respecting all matters of public interest in the Australasian Colonies and the Mother Country. In politics, the Southern Mercury will be liberal and progressive. Agricultural and pastoral affairs will be fully recorded. Manufactures and local industries will be faithfully represented. The interests of the Goldfields will obtain due recognition, and ample exposition of their resources and requirements. Sporting matters will be adequately reported. To literature and science a fair proportion of space will be devoted. Correspondence.—The free expression of opinion will be encouraged. So that all will find in the Southern Mercury something of interest to themselves. The First Number will be issued on Saturday, January 3rd, 1874, and will contain the first chapters of AN ORIGINAL STORY, (By the author of “Wild Will Enderby.”) SUBSCRIVTIONS : Payable in advance and exclusive’of postage— Per Quarter ... ... 6s Per Six Months ... ... 11s Per Annum ... ... 20s Single copies—6d. R. T. WHEELER, Manager and Publisher, Dunedin. Agents wanted in every Town. Advertisements on liberal terms.