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New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 609, 14 February 1852, Page 4

JUST OPENED, 25 CASES LADIES', GENTS', AND CHILDREN'S BOOTS AND SHOES, FROM THE FIRM OF IJOMAN AND COMPANY. And of the very best quality manufactured at that establishment fpHESE GOODS will speak for themselves. They consist of White Satin and JL £very ot!her description of Ladies' Shoes and Slippers, Cashmere and Prunella Boots, i&c, feits' Patent Calf and Morocco Dress, Wellington and every other description of Boot, Oxford Shoes, Slippers, &c, Maids' Cashmere and Prunella Boots, all sizes, Boys', Girls', and Children's, of every kind. Always on hand, in Colonial manufacture, Wellington, Half Wellington, Clarence, Cossack, and Blucher Hoots, Albert and Oxford Shoes, &c, in Kangaroo, Calf or Kip, and Children's in great variety. ■%£T Now the Public are aware (at least the undersigned hopes they are) that he has all tvays been most reasonable in his prices. Nevertheless, in consequence of the very depressed state of the times, he thinks he shall be able to sell — not one fraction less .than, usual. THOS, KEVEN. Boot and Shoe Warehouse, Shortland Street, December 1 (3th, 1851.

"THE MASONS' HO M E," Official Bay. AC. JOY begs most resppctfully to return • his sincere thanks to the Public generally, for the liberal patronage he has received from them during a period of three years, and he trusts that from the late improvements he has made in the "Masons' Home," and the great expense he has trone to in adding a Long Room, and four additional bed-rooms to the House, that the Public will duly appreciate his efforts to please. From the Long Room there is a fine view of the Harbour, and of all the shipping entering inwards and outwards. The shipping can likewise be supplied with pure water within a stone's throw of the house; added to which,, there is a public jetty for the accommodation of boats, &c. &c. A. C. JOY trusts that every facility will be afforded by him for the convenience of panics visiting his house. Auckland, January 12, 1552. j

WESLErAN DAY SCHOOL. rpHE COMMITTEE of the above JL School have much pleasure in announcing 1 that a Master and Mistress have arrived from England by the " John ' Wesley," and that the is now open, under their management. Mr. and Mrs. Singer have been recommended by the Educational Committee in England, as competent Teachers. They will conduct the school on the Glasgow Training System, which is so eminently adapted for the instruction of youth, and which is now being adopted in the Public Schools of the United Kingdom. Auckland, Feb., 7th, 1852.

1^ H E Undersigned are purchasers of Wheat - in any quantity. Fine Flour , .... £13 per ton Seconds ditto . « . . 11,,,, Maize, Bran, &c, at the usual | rices. Low & Motion, Waterloo House, Shortland-street. Auckland, February 2, 1852.

AMEAIOAN AND FOREIGN AGENCY. CITY OF WASHINGTON. UNDER THE DHIECION OF AARON HAIGHT PALMER, of New York, Councillor of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Director of the late American and Foreign Agency of that City, and Worthington Garrestton Fnethen, of New Orleans, also a Councillor of said Court, and late Solicitor of the United Mates Geneial Land Office. This Establishment is formed for the following lowing objects : — 1. For conducting Professional business in the Supreme Couit of the United States, and the prosecution and recovery of claims against the American Government. 2. For Collections generally, embracing Debts, Legacies, and Inheritances in the United States, and the adjacent British Posessions. 3. For the Purchasing of Lands in any of the States or Territories of the Union, and Loaning Moneys on Mortgage of Real Estates lying therein. 4. For Investment of Funds in United States and State Stocks and 'Loans, and, generally for the transaction of all business .pertaining to a Law, Loan, or Banking Agency. All communications addressed,, post paid, to Messrs. Palmer & Snethen, American and Foreign Agency, City of Washington, will receive .prompt -and faithful attention. Palmer and Smethen.

ABORIGINES OF KEW ZEALAND. Now Published, PRICE ONE SHILLING, rrUVO LECTURES, on " The AboriJL gines of New Zealand," delivered at the Auckland Mechanics' Institute, by the Rev. Thomas Buddle, Wesleyan Minister of this town — demy Bvo., 51 pp. Contents. Lecture I. — Introduction — Origin of the New Zealanders — Religion and Superstitions — Ideas of a Future State — The Maori Priesthood — Tapu — Witchcraft — The Fairies. Lecture II. — Customs in War — Cannibalism — Preserving the H Dads of the Slain — Tattooing — Social and Donjestic condition : Government — Slavery — Marr iage — Polygamy — Infanticide — Education — Mourning for the Dead — Conclusion Williamson & Wilson, New Zealander Office.