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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 159, 6 February 1847, Page 1

EX "COMET." The undersigned has for sale, C PADES, Shovels, and steel Pickaxes 43* English Falling Axes Cross-cut Saws, Files, English Coals, &c. M. Quin, Farrier. Dixon-sfreet, February 3, 1847.

SERMON. TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY. THE REV. JOHN INGLIS will (D. V.) preach a Sermon on the Duty of Abstaining from all Intoxicating Drinks, in the Wesleyan Chapel, on Sabbath Evening first, the 7th inst., at half -past six o'clock. Wellington, Feb. 2, 1847.

Just Published, lUxitt One $$triitt£,

TftE COOK'S STRAIT ALMANACK,

FOR THE YEAR 1847.

Contents — Preface, Signal Station, Duties, Principal Articles of the Calendar, Almanack, Gardeners' Calendar, Right Ascension, Declination, and Meridian Passage of the Principal Stars in the Southern Hemisphere, Eclipses for 1847, Principal Occurrences of 1846, Directory for the Southern Settlements, Statistics, &c. A few copies interleaved for memoranda, may be had, Price Is. 6d. Subscribers are requested to leave their names at the office of the New, Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Manners-street, and at Mr. Lyon's, and Messrs. Johnson & Moore's, Lambton Quay. Wellington, January 13, 1847.

A LAND ORDER FOR SALE.

THIS LAND ORDER will' entitle the holder thereof to the first 1 choice of 100 acres of land in any of the New Zealand Company's* present or future possessions. For further particulars enquire of Mr. Lyon, Lambton Quay. January 20, ,1847. THE SOUTHERN SETTLEMENTS OF NEW ZEALAND. In the Press, and will shortly be published, Bvo., Price Three Shillings : rpHE STATISTICS of the SOUTHERN X SETTLEMENTS of NEW ZEALAND from the period of their formation to the close of the year 1846 ; together with a summary of tlie Ordinances passed by the Colonial Legislature, Proclamations, &c, &c, compiled from the most authentic sources, by S. E. GRIMSTONE, Esq.

As a limited number only will- be printed, persons^ desirous of procuring copies are" requested to' subscribe their names at l the office of- the New Zealand' Spectator, or at the Stores of Messrs. Johnson &* Moore, Lyori, ot Levin* on Lambton Quay. Wellington,, December 26, 1846.

TO THE PUBLIC.

E>OOE, €A*HD; JOB; arid every ptHer -*^. description of Printing, executed' with neatness and despatch, at the Office of the Spectator, Jitanners-street, Te-Ard, at the most moderate Prices.

SIGNAL STATION.

MOUNT ALBERT.

The" following are' the Signals used" at' th'» Flag-Staff at Mount Albertl A Square denotes aShip; ~) W*f*&* A.Crossi « a Barque; g-g& A' Circle " « Brig, A Triangle " a Schooner, \Z? i?f& A Diamond " a Cutter, {^llbe A' Parallelogram^ a 1a 1 Steamer, J'lbuferedl Remarks. — A White Flag at Mast Head denotes a sail in sight;, when the class is ascertained, the descriptive Signal will be hoisted at the Yard Arm. English: vessel of war, Union Jack at Mast Head; Foreign- vessel of War, Union Jack at Mast Head, with white "Pendant. Government brig, white Pendant under descriptive' Signal. When a vessel is at anchor, either inside ol outside the Heads* the flag is lowered to h*H mast. A vessel in distress, or on shore, descriptors signal half mast. _ Fore and aft schooner, a triangle- hollow in the centre.