Page 3 Advertisements Column 1

Evening Star, Issue 3379, 18 December 1873, Page 3

In a Western novel-- 4 * Robert Greathouse ” —an amusing instance is given of that tendency existing in the uneducated mind to confound profanity with the solemn taking of an oath. Jack Gowdy, an ignorant stage-driver, desiring information about an affidavit he wishes to make, asks a lawyer '“ Is the swearing very tall? Is the swearing such very hard swearing that it takes a scientific man to do it ? Suppose a gentleman, not a professional man in such matters, nor yet a scientific man, but say a man who never swore much, except privately, on his own account, at stablemen and ostlers, and farodealers when they did not pull the cards square, and abolitionist and free niggers occasionally in a general way ; suppose, I say, such a man as that should commence swearing up this case, sav this evening, as soon as we could commence work, and we should keep it up without interruption, till to-morrow evening at 5 o clock, do you think we could Rtch it up to the notch ?” “Yes.” “ Then it wmuld gratify mo very much if I could take a swear at them there documents. Late Advertisement*. WANTED, Two Farm Laborers, for the Dunstan. Apply, immediately, Richard H. Leary, High street. Dunedin lunatic asylum HALL. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, Benefit of the SHERIDAN DRAMATIC CLUB. The Performance, commencing with the sparkling Comedy of “ Upstairs and (’ownstairsto be followed by a Musical Interlude ; the whole to conclude with the laughable Farce of “ The Review.” Doors open at 7 30 ; commerce at 8. Admission (by ticket only), 2s fid. COALS, SALE, a CARGO of SHAG POINT COALS, ex Flying Squirrel, now being retailed at 30s per ton. CLARK & SON, Port Chalmers. NOTICE. UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED). THE Share List of the Company will Close on Tuesday, 6th January. James mills, Interim Secretary. TENDERS will be received by the Chief Postmaster, Dunedin, till 26th December inst,, for the conveyance of a Postal Officer with correspondence, by Cab or Express. lour times daily each way between the Receiving Boxes, Princes street south, the Chief Post Utßce, and Great King street, north end. Tenders to be at per day. For further particulars, apply to ARCHIBALD B \KR, Chief Postmaster, WANTED, a Smart Bo,v. Apply Tomorrow, early, Lyons and Hart, Fleet street, Arcade. "VT/AN'IED Immediately, Competent W Carpenter to take charge of work. Good wages. Clayton, builder, Hayroan s, {lattray street.