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shipping. HARBOUR STEAM COMPANY AGENTS Beautiful star, s.s., for timaru, AKA HO A, and LYTTELTON, on Thursday, 18th instant. Cargo till 5 p.m. Wednesday. Passengers by 2.30 train Thursday. SAMSON, p.s., for OAMARU, on Friday, 19th December. Shipping orders issued till 3 p.m., and cargo received till 5 p.m. on Thursday. Passengers by 7.30 a.m. train on Friday. PRETTY JANE, for MOLYNEUX and KAITANGAI'A (taking cargo for Balclutha, Inch-Clutha, &c., at through rates, to be forwarded by drays from Kaitaugata), about Wednesday, 17th December. Offices : Harbour Chambers. REGULAR STEAM COMMUNICATION TO BLUFF, INVERCARGILL, AND RIVERTON. THE Full-powered Screw steamer WANGANUI will be despatched for above Ports TO-MORROW (Wednesday). Cargo received at Rattray street Jetty. Passengers from the wharf at 1 p.m. RETURN TICKETS, available till 31st January, issued at SINGLE F H. HOUGHTON & CO. M‘MECKAN, BLACKWOOD, AND CO.’S STEAMER’S. Cabin T EXCURSION Tickets to !j Melbourne and Back, during the months of December, January, and February. .. Ll7. I hteerage ... LS 10s DALGETY, NICHOLS, & CO„ Agents. STEAM TO ENGLAND UNDER 60 DAYS. HE Favorite Passenger Steamship GREAT BRITAIN, 3,500 tons, 500 horse power, Chas. Chapman Commander, W ill be depatched from Hobson’s Bay, On WEDNESDAY, 4th FEBRUARY, 1874 Passengers booked through from Dunedin. For further information ajqily to BRIGHT BROS. & CO., Bond street. LITERATURE. PROSPECTUS OK “ THE SOUTHERN MERCURY, ” A Weekly Chronicle of News, Politics, and Literature. Conducted by Vincent Pykk. UNDER the above title it is proposed to ia*ue an original and independent Newspaper, untrammelled by party influences, and not subservient to any special interest; but having, as its guiding consider ation, 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 tha Australasian Colonics and the Mother Country. In politics, the Souihkf.n Mercuuy will bo 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 bo 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 Endc-rby.”) Subscriptions : Payable in advance and exclusive’of postage— Per Quarter ... ... 6s Per Six Months ... lis Per Annum ... .. 2Us Single copies—Gd. B. T. WHEELER, Manager and Publisher, Dunedin. Agents wanted in every Town. Advertisements on liberal terms. J£D tf C ATION AL.

DANCING CLASSES. fIT, GEORGE’S HALL.—Juveniles, Saturdays, from 3 to 5. Adults, Mondays, from 7 to 9. Terms r One Guinea per quarter (commencing from date of entrance). J. KELLY, Professor, From Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. DUNEDIN DANCING ACADEMY. St. George’s Hall. MRS HAM ANN begs to inform her Pupils and the Inhabitants of Dunedin that her Classes will be held in the above Hall: For Adults—Tuesday Evening, from 8 till 10 o’clock For Adults— Thursday Evening, from 8 till 10 o'clock For Adults—Saturday Evening, from 8 till 10 o'clock For Juveniles—Saturday Morning, from 11 till 1 o’clock Terms—One Guinea per Quarter, commencing from date of entrance. N.B.—The Saturday Afternoon Class will bs held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, from 3 till 5 oclock. DUNEDIN DANCING ACADEMY, ST. GEORGE’S HALL. AT the request of several Ladies and Gentlemen, a Class will be formed for instruction only, on Saturday Evening. Terms, one guinea per quarter. This will be a good opportunity for tho*e desirous of learning Dancing. Commencing Saturday, Oetober 18, at 8 o’clock. A. HA MANN.