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Evening Star, Issue 3586, 20 August 1874, Page 3

Wanted to Know.—Had the girl who was bunea in thought any grave ideas ? A sad case of being buried alive has been discovered at Chapmanville, Pa. Mrs Anthony Coggswell, who gave every appearance of having died, two weeks ago, was buried. Her husband being absent at the time, on his return had the body exhumed, and found that it had turned over in the coffin, while there were other evidences showing that she had been buned while in a trance. He has since been a aving maniac. ~r ° What Base Uses,” &c.—Evansville, Indiana, repudiates the idea that it has no firstclass poets. Walter Scott works in a sash door, and blind factory; Oliver Goldsmith works on a farm, Thomas Moore is a finisher, and Kobert Burns is in the city gaol. Delicately Put.—The following is the translahon of an advertisement; in the ' Paris Journal’: M. A, Lefeuve, 48 bis, Rue Basse du Rempart, bogs the lady in black who does not like draughts in omnibusses kindly to send him his purse, which she found in his pocket on the Ist of February, and to keep the money it contained as a reward for her cleverness.” A friend who had been appointed to a judgeship in one of the Colonies was long aftei wards describing to Sir George Rose the agonies he had suffered on the voyage out from sea-sick-ness. bir George listened with muqb interest to the recital of his fpieiid’a sufferings, and then fn a tone of deep commiseration, “It’s a greftfc mty you did not throw up your appointment.” Equal to the occasion.—lnnocent of inter tional offence was the rough Tennesse soldier, who, tired of campaigning after thre moi.ths experience, asked General Thomas t grant him leave of absence, because ha want v to see his wife. “ Why, I have not Seen mip tor three years,” was the generals' reply, « tended to be conclusive. Rut homesiq' warrior \?as oqvial to the occasion, and retortec • VVaH, you see, me and ra\ wife ain’t tha kind.-’ •

Late Advertisements. THE COLONIAL BANK OP NEW ZEALAND. NOTICE is hereby given tLat, pursuant to the Deed of Settlement 6t the Colonial Bank of I 'New Zealand, a Special General Meeting of the Proprietors of the siki Bank will be held at the Masonic Hall, Moray place, Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, on Wednesday, the thirtieth day of Seutember, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.four, at two o’clock, p.m., for the purpose of Electing seven Directors and two Auditors, to be the first Directors and Au* ditors of the said Bank. And that every Proprietor who is possessed of three hundred shares at the least in the capital of the said Bank, and shall become a candidate fer the office of Director, mnst give notice thereof to the Board of Directors in writing, to be left at the offices of the said Ba n U> in High street, Dunklin aforesaid, |hirty days at least before|the day of ElecAndthat every'perscn appointed to act as proxy must be a Proprietor of the said Bank; and every proxy must be in writing under the hand"of the Proprietor of the ihares in respect of which such proxy shall be given and delivered to the SSecretftry qf the Bank at lpa§t twepty-foijr hours before the time ap. pointed for the said meeting. Copies of the said Deed of Settlement, and 'forma, may be had on application at the office of the said Bank, in High street, Dunedin aforesaid. By order of the Provisional Directors. WM. YOUNG, _ Interim Secretary. Pimedin, August 15, 1874,. TO BUILDERS. TENDERS are invited for erection of Five-Roomed Cottage, up till Friday, the 21st mat., till 8 p.m. . J Pluns and specifications may be seen at Mr Brown’s Salutation Hotel, Rattray street. N B—The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. WANTED, Tenders, by six o’clock. Monday, 24th inst., for Btumping and Levelling Land, Sawyer’s Bay. Plan and specification with Mr Dunedin; WANT ED Known—Mrs Wm, Simpson, Nurse, Lower York place, WAN TED, Paperbanger at once. M‘Donnell, Forth street, • r r*° LET, a Furnished Bedroom and X Sitting-room. Apply Miss Thompson, Otago Boot factory, Gtofge street. FOR SALE, Erovinqial Yards, Satuiday, 11 sharp, sijf Dairy Cows, full milk, and at tho calving. WANTED, Girl, about 14 years, to assist in house work. Apply M ‘Larep’s store ? Frederick street.