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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1516, 24 December 1872, Page 2

HAWKE'S BAY TIMES, are now received in Napier at the establishment of the Proprietor, two doors from the Union Bank, Hastingsstreet, where also copies of the paper may be obtained. STATIONERY. —TO ARRIVE, per ship CHILE, from London direct, a Choice Assortment of STATIONERY and FANCY ARTICLES, comprising Latest Novelties.—-T. B. HARDIISG, Hastings-street. '.ABBIEL'S celebrated DENTAL PREPARATIONS on Sale by T. B. HARDING, Hayings-street. Tn South Australia, according to ! late advices, the crops promise well, j Latterly, however, locusts have been J causing sad havoc, taking possession even of the tanks and waU-rholes. A Paris newspaper—the Figaro—warns its readers against placing too much confidence in the announcement of a hotel whose proprietor informs the public that " English, German, Italian, and Spanish aie spoken here." An Englishman, it says, who lately "descended " at the hotel in question, and could find no waiter possessing even the most rudimentary acquaintance with the English language, asked for the in terpreter, and being told that there was none, demanded an explanation, "By whom, then," he enquired, "are English, German, Italian, and Spanish spoken?" "By the travellers, sir, who come to I $e hotel," was the reply. !