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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1604, 10 April 1879, Page 4

" Musing on tho infinite, eh ?" said a facetiouß looking man to a melancholy looking individual who was walking along the roadside with bowed head and serious countenance. ' Well, yes; same thing —thinking of my debts." Inconvenient.—A very fat man determined to be comfortable, sent an order to the office for two seats in the coach for himself. The clerk engaged him one seat outside and the other in.side. A Minneapolis cat has achieved a kitten with five heads, and we can imagine how sweet it will be when tho cat attains its majority, to have it sit on the back of a fence and commune with itself. The " Pekin G-azette " publishes a communication from a learned Chinaman, who maintains that the telephone was already known in the year 962, and was the invention of a citizen of Peking. An industrial exhibition is to be opened by the Emperor of Brazil on the 4th May next.

FAMILY BIBLES, PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS, COMMON PRAYERS, And CHURCH SERVICES, With HYMNS, ANCIENT AND MODERN. THE Advertiser is greatly overstocked with above lines, and has decided to SAC HI PICK them at considerably less than cost price, or .at HALF THE USUAL PRICE. A great variety of PHOTOGRAPHIC SCRAPS, very cheap SCHOOL BOOKS in great variety, including all Noa. of Royal Readers and Sequels, Morris' Grammar, and all class books used in district schools, GOOD BLUE ENVELOPES, 7s 6d per 1000. ALFRED SIMPSON, Late J. Hughes, HIGH STEBET, Opposite Cobb and Co, 2879

Ulster Boot Depot. ESSRS McSWIGAN & BURNS have , OPENED those well-known oorner premises in HIGH AND LICHFIELD STREET, Christchurch, Opposite the Borough Hotel, with a "Well Assorted Stock of BOOTS AND SHOES, which for Price, Material, and Workmanship will be found to compare favorably with any establishment in Christchurch, All orders entrusted to them will be executed in a good, workmanlike manner, and in the latest fashion. 4459 JIS year of the reiga of Victoria the Queen that there was a certain city built upon the plains, and the people of this city were a very busy people and TIME was precious unto them, even like gold and silver and precious stones ; and it came to pass that the artificers who divided the time between the rising and setting of the sun, and of dividing the hours thereof, said—Behold this people which is gathered here together, from all parts of the earth and from among all nations ; behold! they have gotten houses and lands and cattle, and are filled with the good things of the earth, let us therefore lay upon them burdens grievous to be borne, and make them pay unto us portions of their possessions, that we too may speedily become rich: and it was so. And the people groaned under their heavy burden—And behold, in the fullness of time a man appeared in their midst whose surname was RUTLAND, a watchmaker, and he abode in the street which is called Colombo. And he cried unto the people and said, come unto me, I will deliver you and release your yoke from off your shoulders ; for behold, he cried, I am a worker in watohes and clocks and in gold and silver and precious stones, and I will work for you, take away your trouble, —and I will clean your watches and your clocks for five shillings each—ye shall no longer pay ten pieces of silver as heretofore but five. And he stood forth and cried, yet again—lf you will give unto me but a small portion of what ye have given unto others, behold then your wives and your daughters shall wear chains of gold around their necks, and bands of gold and of silver upon their arms, and rings upon their fingers and in their ears. And moreover he said, I will give unto you that which is desired of all men and which shall be of service to thee; and I will sell unto thee watches which no man can surpass for two pounds each. And it was so that the people flocked unto him, and did buy of him, for he dealt fairly with the people and sold unto them goods which no man could surpass. And lo! he remaineth in the city unto this day. Now therefore, 0 ye people, ye sons and daughters of Chrißtohurch, flock unto him, and he will serve you well. Behold his surname is RUTLAND, and his shop in the street which is called Colombo, and is next to Ick's Auction Roomß, and opposite City Hotel, Christchurch. 4485 BREAD. BREAD. BREAD. STARTING REDUCTION—DOWN TO sd. PER 4lb LOAF. WmHOMSON begs to inform his • JL numerous customers and the üblic in general that he has again commenced baking in his old premises, Colombo street, opposite Reece's, ironmongery stores, where he respectfully solicits a continuation of the patronage so liberally bestowed on him during the twelve years he has been in business W. T. begs to inform the public and his customers that he is only baking W. D. Wood's best silk dressed flour, which is a sufficient guarantee that the very best Bread unadulterated, is obtainable at his establishment. All kinds of pastry and con fectionery of first-class quality, and at reduced rates, see window for lists of prices, W. T. has also a large assortment of grocery and oilmen's stores, ale and porter of the best brands, and at reduced rates. Also, note address—W. Thompson, Baker and Grocer, Co-operative Stores, Colombo street. N.B.—Cash purchaser of prime fresh butter, also keg butter and eggs, in any quantity, 4206