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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4260, 14 November 1874, Page 1

"ANTED, 100 Pick and Shovel Men. . . Apply to Mr. Kennedy, Hutt; or 0. 1 " r - Tr " - -dy, Wellington. WANTED Carpenter?, to dress, tongue, and groove from 6000 to. 900Qft. of totara, Bxl and Sxf, at per square. Also to lay forty square of flooring, ceiling, and lining, at per square. Apply to Mr. E. W. Mills, warehouse, opposite the Police Court. WANTED, a General Servant. Apply between 5 and 0 (evening) to Mrs. Fisher, opposite Woodward-street Bridge. "ANTED, b and Sittii Jentleman, a Bed-room mi. Addres ' " WANTED KNOWN—A Registry Office for Servants is now open at the wellknown premises, Brandon's Corner, Lambton Quay. Applications from Employers .in town or count cy promptly attended to. S. J. HILL, Tobacconist. HOTEL, •V. Market Square, Wanganui. JAMES J. ANDERSON. PBOPIUETOE. The above Hotel having changed hands, the present Proprietor begs to draw the attention of the public to its improved SUPERIOR ACCOMMODATION » FOB FAMILIES and TRAVELLERS. The study of the Proprietor will always be to ensure the comfort of his patrons, and to procure none but the very best brands of ' WINES, SPIRITS & MALT LIQUORS, and trusts, by a strict attention to business, to receive the same liberal amount of support accorded to the late proprietress, Mrs Atkinson. ies of the Hotel will be under the able management of Mrs James Stewart. (PORTSMAN'S ARMS HOTEL, WAI-'i 1 KANAE. der the Distinguished Patronage of His Excellency Sir James I?ergusson and suite. Conversation on Paikakariki Hill between two travellers—old acquaintances : " Hullo, Boss, where have you put in the night?" "Why, at Waikauae. I always manage to make a stage there if possible." "Is it a good house?" —"Not a better on the Coast for cleanliness, eivility, and the best of everything to eat and drink." " But how was your horse looked after ?" —" First class ; as much as he could stuff into him, and a dry clean bed." I " I always fancied a fellow would have the miserables in such a lonely spot ; why, I'm told there is no one to speak to V —" Don't you believe it; you put in an hour or two with Jim Erskine or old Tom "Wilson, and I'll guarantee they'll keep you alive." "Old whaling yarns, I suppose 1"—"You bet, and good ones too, of forty years ago." " Can you cross from there to Kapiti ? "Yes, Jim keeps a number of good boats, and will cross you any time in fair weather." " Any shooting ?" —" Any amount." "By Jove ! I'll put in a week there." —" Do, you won't regret it." " Well, so lons'." Books, Stationery, &c J MORTON, BOOKSELLER and I_V« STATIONER, Greytown, has on iand, and to arrive, a large assortment of BOOKS and STATIONERY, which he sells at Wellington prices. R. M. will OPEN a BRANCH STORE in M.isterton as soon as his new premises are pleted. The trade supplied. Greytown,.lst May.'Wi. I 1875. T ETTS'S DIARIES, LETTS'S DIARIES, LETTS'S DIARIES, Fob 1875, In one hundred varieties of form, Bize, aad price. LYON AND BLAIR, Lambton Quay. SIBBUAS The undersigned have just roc from San Francisco, a case of Ami Hie following is a selection : l'rautwino's Engineers' Pocket-Boole, 28s. Henck's Field Book for Engineers, 13s. 6d. Byrne's Pocket-Book for Railroad and Civil Engineers, 10s. 6d. , Griswold's Railroad Engineers' Pocket Comp~'— *~ tho Field, 10s. Cd. Hamilton's Useful Information for Railway Men, 12s. Gd. Ward's Steam for the Million, ss. 6d. • " ' ' "Uechanic's Tool-Book, Ss. Cd. ™<"-'can House Carpenter, 10s. 1 Treatise on Levelling, 13s. 6d. __ aecome a Successful Engineer—being to youths intending to adopt the profes3s. 1 Treatise on Bridgo Building, 20s. lie, Ss. Od. and Surveying, 15s. actical Shepherd, 10s. Cd. cial Statics. 12s. Cd. scent of Man (2 vols.), 21s. nn s ungin of Species, 10s. ley's Origin of Species, Cs. ,__i.-„ n_i„;,. „f Civilisation, 10s. Cd. ies, 10s. Cd. LYON & BLAIR, » , Lambton-quay. LYON AND BLAIR'S NEW LIST OF BOOKS ON SALE. Ootobee, 1874. Problems of Life and Mind, by George Henry Lewes ; Autobiography and Memoir of Dr. Thomas Guthrio, by Ills Sons ; Vol. 1. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES.—VoI. 10. The Science of Law, by Sheldon Amos, M.A. Vol. 11. Tho Animal Frame: or JErial and Terrestrial Locomotion, by C. J. Maroy, with 117 engravings. DICKENS'S WORKS.—New Illustrated Household Edition. Volumes now published are Barnaby Rudgo, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Martin Clnizzlewit, David Coppcrfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit. „„,,', Nancy, a new novel, by tho author of Red as a Rose is' She," " Cometh up as a Flower," &c. &c. A Princess of Thule, a new novel by William Black, author of " In Silk Attire," " Daughter of Hoth," &c Strange Adventures of a Phreton, a new novel, by tho same author as " A Princess of Thule," &c. London Journal, Vol. 59, to July, 1574 Tlio cabinet edition of Mr. Tennyson's works ; vol. 1, Early Poems, with photographic portrait; vol. 2, English Idylls and other poems Farjeon's Christmas Stories, bound in one volume The Fair Haven, by Butler, author of "Erowhon" Tho Albert N'Yanzn Great Basin of tho Nile, by Sir Samuel Baker The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, by Sir Samuel Baker ' Natural Selection, a series of essays by A. E. Wallace, author of tho " Malay Archipelago' . Inventus Mundl: the Gods and Men of tho Heroic Ago, by the Right Hon. "W. E. Gladstone . The Theologyand Theologians of Scotland, by James Walker, D.D. ■ ■ a ,„.■,,„ Stoam and tho Steam Engine (Land and Mamie), b) Henry Evers, L.L.D. LYOT & BLAIKj lUSTRALASIAN and AUSTRALASIAN A. SKETCHER received regularly, and sold at Melbourno prices as follows : Australasian, delivered in town, 20s. per annum.. „ ~ ' Cd. single copy. " posted to tho country, 30s. per annum. - "• ' lonthly), delivered In town, os. Cd. per Ml. „, , , ~ Cd. single copy. " posted to tho country, 7s. Cd. per LYON & BLAIR. . 1" News Agents, Booki Lambton Quay, Wellington.