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Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 551, 13 February 1858, Page 6

PORTRAITURE. " Secure the, shadow ere the "substance fades.'' ' ' Shakespeare. -': MR, ELSBEE'S PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT ROOMS, London1 Street, (next door to the Albion Hotel), are now ready for'the reception of visitors. : ■'Likenesses in" the first'style of the Art, by the new Collodion process^ and beautifully f coloured, taken daily from 9 a.m., to 5 p.m. i \, ON PHOTOGRAPHY: j" The very marked attention'which this almost' magical Art has received from the public is p.n evidence of its great merit and beauty. | ' It is a new and unequalled means of preserving the lineaments of those,who, are esteemed or;loved; of retaining the perfect likeness jofmembers of families, or friends who are sepai^a-' ted, or about separating; of conveying a faithful.iiripression of the living couutenance tax and from friends long parted and at great distances ; these, and the gratification of the family ands social circle in the beautiful miniature repre-7 sentation of its own members,-the almost; speaking portraits of friends, present or absent,: .with the melancholy satisfaction to relatives of. retaining the perfect resemblance of the lost in death,—these are some of the many objects of4 deep and touching interest to which this most surprising and delightful Art is applied. ■ ■ ; l] MINIATURES, LANDSCAPES, and subjects of every description accurately copied,'and neatly set in Morocco Cases, Gold. Lockets, Rings, or Breast-pins. A great .variety of Beautiful STEREOSCOPES and MARINE GLASSES oh Sale. The Art carefully taught, and Apparatus of the finest and best manufacture supplied on liberal terms.

PUBLIC NOTICE. PROPOSALS in siting will be received at this office until noon on. -Saturday, the 13th instant, for clearing part. of the river Avon, from the Bricks Wharf downwards, from water-cresses. : Specifications may be seen on application at the office of Public Works, Survey Oflice, on and after Friday, the sth irist.' By his" Honor's command, J. OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary. • Provincial Secretary's Office, . Cijristchuroh, Feb. 3rd 1858.

ON SALE BY THE UNDERiSIGNED, EX ASHBURTON, 50 bids. Abbott's brown stout 20 cases, 3 d^z. each, fine old port. 50 cases' Coward's Oilmen's Stores, consisting of—Mtistard, salad oil, vinegar, pickles, catsups,'jams, preserves, spices, oatmeal, barley, vermicelli, carbonate of soda, essences; brown Windsor soap, &c., &c. To arrive .^p Palmyra, 2 bales carpets and rugs, consisting of—Tapestry, Brussels, Dutch, and Axminster. 2 cases seeds—Vegetable, flower, grass, furze, lucerne, sanfoine, clover, &6., &o. To arrive Roehampton, 2 cases cutlery and plated goods, consisting of—Knives and forks, spoons, tankards, cruets, pickle frames, cake baskets, coffee, tea, sugar, and cream pots, candlesticks,'dessert sets, pocket knives, &c. Td arrive Hastings, 2 cases " Winsor and Newton's" artists colors and stationery, consisting of— Water color boxes, hard and moist

colors, drawing paper, sketching blocks, water bottles, a sketching apparatus complete, white and tinted mounting boards, Bristol boards, lithograph studies, ' assorted elementary studies and instruc- i tion books on art, by Harding, Ruskin, and others, tracing paper' and cloth, every description of sable and camel ! hair pencils, oil colors, hag tools and varnish brashes, crayons, chalks, stumps, J &c, a folding mahogany . sketching I easeHn case, do. not in case, table easels, ! pencil cases, drawing pens, dividers compasses, rbadpens,. pen and pencil paints, Cumberland lead pencils in. every variety, canvass for oil painting, portable tube boxes, palette knives, &c., &c. "^ late arrivals. 2 qr.-casks whiskey 1 caroteel and 2 Barrels currants 1 bale canvass 1 case embroidery 1 case new music WILSON.& CO. . Agents in Lyttelton, Messrs. J.. T. PEACOCK & co: Christchurch, Jan. 30th; 1858..

-TjlOR SALE BY THE UNDER-' JL SIGNED,-— Brandy, whiskey, old torn, nuts, arrowroot, wine biscuits, vinegar, driedapples >L Boap> pickles; salad oil, sauces, tobacco pipes,, white: .lead, clocks assorted bungs, porter: and vial corks; table legs,; Europe rope, : barrels coal, tar, soda, coffoe, canary ; se.ecl, rice, spades and shovels; spirits of tar? leather, viz.> sole, kip, calf,kangaroo ; a cheese, press complete; American axes,' steel flour mills, crowbars assorted, sizes,galvanized Wire/ from 1 to ? feet .wide, sheepshefirs, lanterns, steelyarda, pincers and plyers;' hand saws, whip cord ; pint,- pint, and quart pewters; electro-plated table and dessert forks ; table, dessert, and tea spoons; cruet stands and tea pots ; knives and forks, scissors, penknives, carving knives and forks, door bolts, razors,