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Evening Star, Issue 3446, 9 March 1874, Page 3

“If I am not at home from the bachelor party to-night at ten o’clock,” said a husband to Ins wife, “do not wait for me.” “Thatl won’t,” replied the lady, significantly; “I’ll come for you.” To prevent difficulty, the gentleinan managed so as to he at home precisely at ten o clock. Genius ioses a part of itself, as it were, by the death of a brilliant man in any profession or walk of life. This is well illnstmtled SZ case of a supe ” whose brain-wearing task it was to remove the chairs from the stage theatre. When Macready’s death was announced he with dramatic gesture and feeling, exclaimed ; Ureat heavens ! another one of us gone '” At a school examination one of the visitors made a brief address to the pupils on the necessity of obeying their teachers and growing up loyal and useful citizens. To give emphasis to his remarks, he pointed to a large national flag spread on one side of the room, and inquired, Boys, what is that flag for ?” A little urchin, who understood the condition of the house better than the speaker, promptly answered, To cover up the dirt, sir.” P Late Advertisements. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL OF OTAGO. SOCIETY THE Summer Show will be held in the Caleaonian Grounds on Thursday and hriday, thel2th and 13th instant, between the hours of 2.30 and 6 o’clock, £gag f d Tlle ProVi ” dal^-'^dfc»bMl CITY OF DUNEDIN.

\ PPLICATIONS, by letter, accompanied ~;~ v . Wl , testimonials, will be received by the City Council of Dunedin, at the offices. Manse street, on or before Wednesday, the 18th March instant, at 4 p.m., from persons desirous of filling either of the following situations, which are falling vacant in the town >,lerk s department; TOWN CLERK’S ASSISTANT—SaIary for say the first year, at the rate of Moo per annum. OFFICE YOUTH (must be well educated) balary, to commence, at the rate of ioU per annum. M E&8 ENG &K—Salary at rate of £IOO

Further particulars, as to necessary qualihcation and duties, may be ascertained at the lown Clerk a office, vianse street. J. M. MASSEY, >/r v/\ t ohr j Town Clerk. March 9, 1874. WVATE BOARD AND RESIDENCE. —Vacancies for two Respectable hoarders, single bed-room. Meyer’s Albion House, Moray Place. WANTED, Second Cook. Apply Spanish Restaurant. |UNEDIN RACE MEETING, 1874. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. Subscription Rooms will be opened at WAIN’S HOTEL. Fu>ther particulars in future advertise* meuts. ENGLISH OPERA. PRINCESS THEATRE. r F to all parts of the house will be A sold during the season at the Occidental Hotel and Dunedin Railway Refreshment Rooms, STTaNTED, Girl to mind a baby in the pLV/ Ve W\ W * Hooper, corner Princes and High streets. WANTED, Board and Residence by single man ; neighborhood of Caversham preferred. Address "A. 0. Fto this office. LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES. NOTICE is hereby given, that the severs parcels of laud hereinafter describe will be brought under the provisions of “ Th Land Transfer Act, 1870,” unless caveat b lodged forbidding the same on or before th 26th day of March, 1874. Part of Section 25, Block XXVII., Town of Dunedin ; Harmah Leacy of Dunedin, as Attorney for Thomas Leacy, of San Francisco, California, laborer, applicant. 1,430. Sections, Block 1., Otokia District; Alexander Telfer, of Dunedin, settler, applicant. 1,431. Part of Section 43, Block XXII., Town of Dunedin; Henry Guthrie, of Dunedin, lighter agent, applicant. 1.433. Part of Section 31, Block VI,, Dunedin; James Paterson, of Dunedin, gentleman,' applicant. Diagrams may he inspected at this office. Dated this 17th day of February, 1874 at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin. * D. F. MAIN, District Land Registrar. CITY OF DUNEDIN. PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that the assessment of all buildings, lands tenements, and hereditaments within the City of Dunedin (as authorised by the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865, and the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordnance Amendment Ordinance 1872) for the year ending December 31st 1874, according to the full, fair, and estl' mated annual rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual tenant’s rates and taxes, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance and other expenses (if any) necessary to maintain the same in a state to command such rent has been duly made. Notice is further given that the said assessment having, on the fourth day of March 1874, been allowed by the Council of the *aid City, is now deposited, and may be duly inspected at the Town Clerk’s Office, in w anse street, in the said City, between the hours of i 0 a m. and 4 p.m., by any person interested therein. And notice is further given that any appeals against the said assessment may be lodged at the City Council Chambers, Manse street (where blank forma may be had) on i or before the 24th day of March instant; | also, that a copy of each notice of appeal is required by law to be served not later than the 24th instant upon any person whose nameic may be propped to insert in the assessment, or who;e property it may he alleged has been omitted therefrom, or assessed below its full, fair, and annual value A copy of each notice of appeal is also required to be delivered by the appellant to the Clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court Dunedin, on or before the 24th March inst * aforesaid, ’’ J. 7th March, 1874. M. MASSEY, Town Clerk,