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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 288, 3 December 1881, Page 1

LANCASHIRE HOUSE, BRIDGE-STREET. IS NOW SELMNO s . D . Trimmed Rush Hats ... each Q 9 Trimmed Hats each 1 Q Ladies' Collars each Q Silk Scarves _ each Q g Prints, from ... ... yard Q Black Cashmere... yard 1 v ' Brown Holland yard Q Black Lustres ... ... yard Q Seventy-two-inch Twill Sheeting yar< l i / Ninety-inch Twill Sheeting yard 2 2 Superior Long-cloth ... yard 0 Grey Calicos yard Q Colored Stockings ... ... ... pair 0 9 Ladies' Gloves ... ... ... ... pair 0 6 Corsets ... pair 1 11 All other Goods marked equally low. Shirts, Collars, Ties, Socks, Braces, Pauts, Under- vests, Umbrellas, etc., etc., in great variety. EKaL ISB J>RI CE S MILLINERY,* DRESS, AND MANTL E-MAKING Mourning Orders promptly attended to. Charges moderate. JAMES HART, Lancashire House, Bridge-street. tcTldhe ladies. ~ ■■»T limaim ii i ii«— J()Joaat.lct««»sssaßaa«J Now on hand at "The leather Palace" A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF T ABIES' CASHMERE AND LASTING BOOTS, FOR SUMMER WEAR, From SS. to lOS. 6d., Quality Guaranteed: HeALY, & SOJNT, BRIDGE-STREET. FIFTEEN HUNDRED JAM JARS >H — — H-- ! J 3 - Shrewd folks have always said it— W *4 Trade where thjey give no credit. $ » _ 0 % o »-d « Cr° t0 tbe St ° reS in the Valle y or "Wood, % 3 For Crockery, Brushware, Fuel, or Food, § And you may depend on getting them, good, g Best value in Nelson; you may conclude. g H q _ H■ . W — — H O F TH E VERY BEST. The gentleman who proposes to start King Ludwig, of Bavaria, is .gradually b6oatrich farming in New Zealand should be com ing more eccentric, and his capers are "in for a good thing," if the following ex- o£ » character which, if committed "by any tract from the London Globe is to bfe one not of royal blood or very high famiiy balieved :— " Buy a cock bird and two hens, connection, would be classed as the acts of la and there you are, established in life with a f ° ol P ure fl nd simple. A few weeks ago the property sore to yield ever-increasing profits. Xin S met w i'a an amusing mishap at his Some one — never mind the identity of tbje .romantic residence in tbe mountains beyond lucky, person— tried the experiment a feW Munich. Ha had caused to be constructed: a years back, with tbe most wonderful results. mechanical contrivance for agitating the He had, however, an 'artificial incubator' 'wafers of an artifeial lake in a manner as well as tbe three birds, and that, of course, wn .icb. should imitate a storm. 'When the made a difference. In his first year, 188 egg's' waters became very boisterous, so. that they were produced, and 133 chicks hatched onjfc. pleased him much, he set out upon them in 1 a Eighteen of these died, but 14 fetched £16 boat alone. Very promptly he found himself each when only three months old, and the u pset. Courtiers who had remained in the remaining 41 are belie?ed to be Bold at £>2 vicinity, 'in violation of his commands, came apiece. The total monetary return, wafe, promptly to his rescue, else he would prob(berefore, £1600, which is not bad for a ably bave been drowned, beginning. But if, instead of selling trie A movement has been set on foot, says the clicks, they had been retained for breeding -Printing Times, with a view to do honour to parposea, and if each three had done as well Dr - William Chambers, on the occasion of as the parent birds, and if the process had the fiftieth anniversary of the existence of been repeated at every hatching-out, the " Chambers' Journal " the first number of owner would; by i this time have become a which appeared on the 4th of February, 1832. millionaire. True, the value of osttiqa Tne history of the two brothers Chambers chicks .haa. fallen considerably during the reads like a romance, and few persons could last two of three years, but mature birds realise from so small a t beginning their seem Btill to command a remunerative price, present colossal concern arose, if we had not for 1 we read J in another Cape paper that ia their own word to vouch for its truth. The couple lately killed by accident were con- cai'oer of the surviving brother, Dr. William fcidered worth £300. If, therefore, the Chambers, is especially full of interest for maintenance of ostriches is not exceptionally .printers. Just sixty years ago he set up as a : cogtly, it ought to-pay well to keep chicks printer, without having been even taught the until full grown. But there must be a weak rudiments of the compositor's craft. The point in the 'intji^stry somewhere, or why tota^ cost °f tne plant with which he coniRhould South African capiial'embark in eucb fenced business was £3, which fact lends ; i'aky ventures as diamond and gold mines force to Dr - Chambers' own words, that .vben there is. such a magnificent opening " nothing more primitive had been attempted presenting itself ? "'■-■•. ° since Gutenberg made his rudimentary efforts . in the art of printing,"