Page 4 Advertisements Column 1

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 236, 4 October 1881, Page 4

Chinese Matrimony. — The American correspondent of the Morning Herald baa the following:— One of the objections to Chinese immigration is the feet that it doss not involve families. But very few women corns over, and these, alae ! nearly all lead impure lives. Still, some of the Chinese merchants have wives and children, and occasionally a marriage takes place; Recently ia S&n Francisco were married Mr Lee Young and Miss Ah Chung. The services were peculiar. Tbe presents to the bride were from her female friends only. On the second day after the marriage the newly-made busband gave a banquet to 500 guests. It was a sirtnge feast, and included swallows' nests, atewed sharks' fios with ginger and cucumbers, ducks wrapped in dry orange peel stewed, and, of course, tea without stint. While the feast was under way a roar of fire crackers announced the coming of the bride. She entered the room with a fan before her faoe, and it was [ witb diffiaulty the guests caught a glimpse of her features. The feasting was kept up three days, and then the bride entertained her female friends The groom was not admitted to be with his bride until the third day, when he was sent for, and took her away from her father's to his own house. A girl of metal— One with a silvery voice, of course; < The German Government is studying over a plan for uniting, by a system of canals, the rivers Elbe, Weaer, Ems, Khine, and the Meuse. English capitalista-propoae to connect the Baltic and the North Sea by a deep draught canal from Kiel to some portion of the Elbe, most probably near Gluckstadt, by which Kiel, the most important harbour and naval eatablishmeat in the German Empire, would be connected with the Ehine by a direct route and join the German canals with the water-ways of Holland, Belgium and France.

Money we wantjind Money we must have ! I N wTT U ZJ 1 dull^°^lnT scarcity of BU g»r (which we public t e 0 L7eTJitV TGB6nt) > as an inducemeßt t0 our friefids a * d LEATHER PALACE, We at n6d t0 ° FFER THE WHOLE 0F OIJE PEE SENT COST PRICE! For a FEW WEEKS for CASH ! HEALY~Sd SON, BRIDGE STREET. Local Industry !—Stonewalling.—BOOTS! BOOTS! and J. STAPLES, Wholesale and Retail BOOT and . SHOE Manufacturers, Wellington, and BRIDGESTREET, NELSON. In returniog thanks to our numerous friends and customers for the very liberal support accorded to ua during our brief period ot business in Nelson, we wish to intimate that finding the demand for really good articles much larger than we anticipated, we have determined to manufacture and sell NONE BUT FIRST-CLASS GOODS, which we are now selling at prices that cannot be beaten anywhere. We do not quote prices, as worthless Boots and Shoes can be made at almost any price ; and as we have no old or shop- worn goods, customer may rely upon getting none but sound and iresh articles, we repectfully edict all Shoe buyers to call and inspect our goods, and compare prices and quality. W. &J. S. have shortly to arrive from Eng"j Vwnw? 1 l"? d a 1 s l EOrtmentof Ivies' and Children's SUMMER BOOTS -in h727 S > w^ c £ ™U b e > t ime for 4Le Season, and of which due notice iiSt^wffllid?^ of Repairing done on the premise* Storf>-