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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2153, 19 January 1881, Page 3

When you sell your business and tbe goodwill of your trade, establishing yourself again as a dealer, you not only must not solicit the patronage of your former cubtomere, but also cannot deal with them. That is, such is the case if our Courts accept the precedent established by the English Court of Appeals. How many females find a means of gaining a livelihood by selling button hole flowers in the streets of London may be inferred from the fact that on a recent occasion 2000 flower girls were taken down to Southend by special train, that they might enjoy a holiday iu the country. The.semi-official “North German Gazette” says it is informed on good authority that the statement published by several newspapers that the Grand Sake of Hesse had been betrothed to Princess Mary Elizabeth, the widow of Prince Henry of the Netherlands, is totally unfounded. Tennyson attained his seventy-first birthday on August sth. A few of the intimate friends the Laureate allows himself—inoludBrowning, Matthew Arnold, and James R. Lowell—called on him at his London residence in King street, Mayfair. Browning recited a congratulatory ode. The contractors of the St. Gothard tunnel have applied to the Federal Tribunal to prolong by 700 days the time originally fixed for completion of the undertaking. Instead of being ready early next year, it would thus not be open for traffic until late in 1882.

WE would remind the public that H. H. May and Co, intend OLE A KING OUT their ENTIRE STOCK of SUMMER. DRAPERY in one Great Sale, COMMENCING TO-DAY. We also understand that they intend Giving Every Customer who Spends One Pound a Ticket Giving them a Chance of One of Six Prizes, viz..—Prize Ist, Good Hand Sewing Machine; 2nd Prize, Suit of Men’s Clothes, value £3 ; 3rd Prize, their beautiful Show Doll, value £3 ; 4th Prize, your choice of any Trimmed Hat or Bonnet in their Shop; Prize 5, Handsome American Chair, value £2; Prize 6, Handsome American Chair, value 30s. YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. A SPECIAL MEETING will be held on THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 20th inst., at 3 p.m,, in the Rooms, Manchester street (near the bridge), to which all members and others interested In the A sen. ciation are earnestly iavited. 713 S LAND TO LET, PAP AN DI ROAD. QUARTER-ACRE SECTIONS, being part R.S. No. 243 p, on 21 Tears’ Leases, at irom £7 10s to £lO per Annum. The Land is situated one mile from the North Town Belt, and has frontage directly on the Fapanui road. Apply to W. G. BEITTAN, Church Steward. Christ’s College, 28th December, 1880. TO LET. A POUR-ROOMED HOUSE, with quarter-acre of land on the Qaa Works road, Sydenham, close to Railway Crossing. Apply to 6036 E. J. T. FORD, Hereford street. PATERSON'S GRAND ART UNION will be DRAWN at Messrs C. B. Taylor and Co.’s Auction Rooms, Hereford street next the Bank of New Zealand, on TBURSDAY NEXT, January 20th, at eight o’clock sharp. All ticket holders invited to attend, 7090 TO-MORBOW, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20th. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, MR J. G. HAWKES is instructed oy a lady who has no further use for them, TO SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION, At his Rooms, Hereford street, FURNITURE AND GOODS. Viz. Cheffoniers, tapestry and Brussels carpets, curtain poles; oak hall stand, with marble slab and glass back ; mahogany, fancy, dining, and other tables; gilt and inlaid chimney glasses, lamps, clocks, gazogenes, sewing machine (by Wright and Mann), large folding screen, washstands, dressing tables and glasses, wood and iron halftester and other single and double bedsteads ; spring, hair, and otner mattresses; palliasses, bolsters, pillows, stretchers, cupboards, nursery guard, flower stand, mowing machine, capital set lawn tennis, indiarabber and canvass hose, bedroom stove and pipes, mangle, meat safe, cooking utensils, kitchen dresser, Ac,, &c. HARMONIUM—SpIendid ten stop, by Ges&rini. Lot of fowls. After which, NEW AND SECOND-HAND FURNITURE. Couches; sewing machines, by Wheeler and Wilson, Singer, and Colo ; office tables, washstands, and dressing tables, chests drawers, dining and other tables, chairs in hair and cretonne, clocks, barometers, ornaments, &c., &c. Also, 5 shares in Union Insurance Company. 1.19 Sale at 13 o’clock, 7144 The W EEKIV Press. JANUARY 15. TABLE OF~GONTEKTS. Page. ruEßiKi Topics 15,16 Telegrams—European,. Colonial, Interprovincial ... 6, 9 English News 18,1 Australian News 7 Correspondence ... 11 Miscellaneous " 20,21 The Courts 10 Road Boards 10,11 Local and General 12,13 Town and Country ... 7 General ... ... 19 ciety - Lyttelton Borough Conncil 16, IV, IE The Yeoman —Canterbury Wool Sales Crops in Ashburton County and Camara District-Causes of Disease — Sowing Grass Seed—Hints for Farmers —Poultry 5 The Garden —Memoranda by Mr Robert Chndley—The Sunflower ... The Sportsman Racing Calendar— Sporting Notes bySinbad ... ... c, 7 Cricket —Matches to Como—Notes by “ Not out ’’—The Australian Match— Matches of the Week ... ... ... C Meetings—South Rakaia School Com-mittee-Agricultural and Pa-loral Association —Board of Conservators — West Coast Railway—Hospital Board —lndustrial Association— City Council —Corn Exchaige—Horticultural SoAquatics—Union Rowing Club 6 Pedbstrianism —Hatton v. Hnlston, &c. 7 Entertainments, Ac. —Art, Literary, and Dramatic Gossip 9 Poetry— ln the Mining Town 2 Ladies’ Column — Parisian Fashions— Fashionable Small Talk —The Home... 2, 3 Varieties 3 The Novelist— The Mystery of Lord Braokenbury—A Suit lor a Divorce —A Slight Misunderstanding The New Girl—Gonrlay Brothers 3, 4 Weekly Summary ... ... IS Advertisements 1, 2,12,26, 24 Latest Shipping, Commercial, Stock and Produce Markets *. 12