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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5100, 28 July 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)

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FOR FAMILY USE. CHEAP CALICOES THE GREAT SALE. Calicoes, grey <• Calicoes, grey '. M Calicoes, grey .■.■.-■•■. Calico.es/grey'" Calicoes, grey •■•*; -.:;/';; •' Calicoes, white, dozen/ ; Calicoes, white/yard, Calicoes, white Calicoes, white ~™7 Calicoes, ..;: . , . Calicoes, ''_'-/ '-. • Sheetings/grey" '',. r " Sheetings, grey .' j Sheetings, grey , .. . , Sheetings, white : Sheetings, white •/. ,;; Sheetings, white Sheetings, white THE OYSTER RING. - The pathway;to reform is not strewn with roses. ■'."''' • ' '• ■ : ~ •"" '■■ lam reminded ofthis by a little incident. I have always bought my oysters opened; Mrs. Perkins and myself are fond of oysters, kud eat a great many of them. It occurred id : me one day—last Saturday, to.be more there existed a monopoly in opening oysters that was hurtful to the public purse. Whenever I get hold of a notion of that kind I work it api I worked this up; I brought home a half bushel of oysters in the shell, Saturday night, and put them in the cellar till morning, when they were to be opened fresh for breakfast. When morning came I went down stairs and brought up the oysters while Mrs. Perkins got ready a knife and pan. I quite dressed/ becivsi I was a/little eager "to profit by an experiment; " Mrs. Perkins shared this .earnestness in a measure, and was anxious to 1 have me go to work at once. It is said , that the less a man knows about^anything the ■ more ; - williDgly; he engages to do it. I knew nothing about opening oysters ; I had never opened one in my life. But what Llacked;in knowledge I made up in zeal. '■■"■ '■ '• When '■' every thing was ready, I smiled at Mrs. Perkins and commenced. WHITE HONEYCOMB TOWELS, • : -Md each; ' )0 s :' I found the most difficulty withithe first oyster. I looked some fifteen minutes.for theiiole'in which to 'put the knife. But I couldn't find it. 1 ;. Mrs. ; Perkins, who rather impatiently" watched the survey, .suggested that it: might have fallen 1 out, and would' be in the basket. Mrs. Perkins was lightly costumed, and there was no fire, in.the.stbye. These things wore on lief and'made'her ironical. ; ; :i ' . [ '"; There was. rio'use looking further for a hole in that'' 'oyster. T got' out' my jack■knife) which was sharp, 'and placing the "point at what reasonably appeared to'btia crevice, pushed firmly against it. If I had used a little more firmness it is more than likely that both the blade and handle would have" passed through my hand. As it was, it was only a part of the blade, and I was enabled to pull it from the same side it entered.; fThis was an"unexpected;advantage, and I hope I was sufficiently grateful, but it is doubtful. Mrs Perkins screamed when the blood flew. "You're the awkwardest man I ever saw," she observed/)- , . It was an easy remark. Ninety-nine women in , every: hundred .would have said it. I tied up the wound in silence, and renewed my endeavors to gain an entrance, with zeal materially abated. Flannels, Welsh Flannels, "Welsh Flannels, Welsh Pretty soon I missed part of one thumb; and the knife snapped in two. I thought over a few oaths I had heard when a boy while Mrs. Perkins went for another; knife. They don't make knives of the material' they used to. .' I was surprised to see themi break as fast as they did before I got that oyster open, Mrs. Perkins was somewhat surprised herself. I think if I had not been bald there would have been 'considerable variety added to the .performance. I didn't break the last knife. It' 'slipped'.'over. the ' edge of Unit accursed bivalve, and went across the ajiox of my knuckles with a ferocity almost human. It next went into the stove. ,'j I went into the yard, to think. Mrsi Perkins went up stairs for a cry. ; ; /When I came in I was accompanied by 'the' axe. /■'.'. The balance of those oysters cameapart in two minutes,

BOYS' SUITS. Eeduced to Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to ANCIENT BANKERS. A recent discovery has been made of the history of a Babylonian banking firm, which is contained in the 2500. tablets purchased by the late Mr. G-. Smith, the celebrated Assyrian explorer, for -the British Museum. These tablets, which have been deciphered and, arranged by Dr. Birch and Mr. Boscawen, of the British Museum, relate to a firm of bankers trading under the style of Egibi' and Son, who nourished in the first year of I Nebuchadnezzar, B.C. 604, to the end of r-eign of-" Dariu- Hystaspes, B.C. 485. They relate to loans of silver on personal security a ! t certain rates of interest; to loans on landed or house property for certain periods, with full details and measurements of the land, &c.; to sales of land," on one of which is a plan annexed ; and also to the sale of slaves. It appears that early in the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Egibi retired from the business, and the chief of the firm became Sula, son of Zirukin, the son of Egibh He continued'until'the' twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar. In the fifteenth year of that monarch, his son Nabu-akhi-idin was taken into the firm with his father. On the death of Sula, Nabu-akhi-idin became head and partner, and remained so until the twelfth year of Nabonidus In the eighth year of the latter king, Nabu-akhi-idin took into the firm his son, Itti-marduk-baladhu, who continued until the twelfth; year, when he succeeded him. Itti-markuk-baladhu remained head of the firm during the remainder of the reign of Nabonidus, and through the following reigns of Cyrus and Cambyses. Marduk-nazir-ablue, a son of Itti-marduk-baladhu, appears in the second year of Darius as head partner, and continued as such during the remainder of that monarch's reign. This discovery takes the"' history of banking much further back than it was ever supposed to have existed, and 'Spine of the tablets represent cheques, and other documents connected with this ancient firm. \ BOYS' OVERCOATS, CHESTERFIELD.

OUR SENATORS NEED TO BE' : TAUGHT WISDOM. ;'•'.■ By some of the orators of our New Zealand Parliament, financial separation seems to be the only panacea that can be devised for the salvation and prosperity of our adopted country. In support of this view, plentiful allusions have been made to the examples of both-anoient and modern nations: i The glories *of Athens; Sparta, and other Grecian States have been held up to our admiring gaze, and their Constitutions quoted as the model on which the future of New Zealand should be formed. The most cursory glance at history, however, brings out conclusions of a totally different character. Had the unity of Greece been maintained, it would have given that country increased power, brighter lustre, and consolidated the various States into one strong, compact nation—free, prosperous, and happy. But what is Greece now in the comity of nations 1 A nonentity. What are the modern descendants of the renowned Hellenes? Unworthy* pusillanimous scions of the greatest men—lawgivers, poetsi orators, historians, and heroes—that ever graced the annals of fame. So much, then, foL' the degeneracy caused by the government of petty states with their miserable jealousies, inordinate greed, and contemptible narrow-mindedness. For this fair land we want not any revived form of Provincialism, such as is advocated by those whose policy and :watchword is " Separation." We aspire to see a young nation—vigorous, .healthy, and free—the Queen of these Southern seas, consolidating its strength from year to year, until it becomes a powerful Empire; and a fit compeer to the Great Britain of the North. The Great Sale at Te Aro House is still on.

REMINISCENCES;op WELLINGTON v jln! rtheTyear; 1845, one of our worthy citizens plodded his way with some difficulty through fern and ti-tree, in search of the surveyor's peg, which had been' driven in at what is now Cuba and Dixon-streets, and shortly afterwards erected on it a house of very small dimensions. At this time, Te Aro Flat was little better than a swamp, with a few isolated huts standing here and there. To the credit and enterprise of the fair sex, be it .said, this spot -was selected;by a young lady, who, swith an eye to the future, judged that ere long it must become a good business locality. Her judgment proved correct, and,the venture was sufficiently successful; to enable her to return after a few years to the Old Country. The business was then transferred to two ladies of considerable enterprise and talent, and continued to improve, so that no long space of time elapsed before they too were enabled to retire;-from the scene, and betake themselves to the—- " Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood." In 1806 it into the hands of Mr. James Smith, the present proprietor, who appropriately gave the premises the name of Te Aro House, and under whose management business has steadily progressed and con tinned to improve, with the risiug fortunes of the city, until at length it was found necessary to considerably enlarge the premises, and make Te Aro House what it is now—one, ,of the most extensive and complete Drapery Establishments in the Colony of New Zealand. Goods have been imported from the leading manufacturers in England and the Continent, and advantage continually taken of the colonial market, so that the public has always-had the opportunity of selecting goods of the best quality, and at the lowest possible-prices'/ That this has secured the approvalof discerning buyers is evidenced by the steady increase of business from year to year, and also by the crowning fact of the marvellous success of the Great Sale been going on for the last fourteen f days. The stock of genuine bargains ;is not exhausted, and all who wish to avail themselves of this; opportunity miist not delay paying an ■ early visit to Te Aro House.

WHITE BLANKETS, 50 pairs, Bs. lid. DRIVING A HEN. When a woman has a hen to drive into the coop, she takes hold of her hoops with both her hands, and shakes them quietly towards the delinquent, and says," Shew, there!" '; The hen,then takes one look at theobject, to convince herself that it's a woman, and then stalks majestically into the coop, in perfect disgust of the sex. A mail don't do that way. He goes out of doors and says, "It is singular, nobody in this house can drive a hen but myself." And, picking lip a stick of wood, hurls it at the offending biped, and observes, "Get Counterpanes Count'ei'panes Counterpanes Quilts, white Quilts, white Quilts, white in there, yon thief." . The hen then loses her reason, and dashes to, the, opposite end of the, yard. The man straightway dashes after her. She comes back again with her head down, her wings out", 1 and followed by an assortment of stove-wood, fruit-cans, and coal-clinkers, with a much-puffing and .very man mad in the.rear.. Then she: skims' up on tire'stoop, and under the bam, ■• arid, over a fence or two, and around the house, and back again to the coop, all tlie while talking ; as;oply an excited hen can talk,; arid; all the while-followed by. things ; con- i venient for'handling,' and by a man whoseToilet Covers Toilet Covers Toilet Covers Toilet Covers coat is on the sawbuck, and whose hat is on the ground, and whose perspiration and ! profanity appear to have no limit. By this time the other hens have come out I to take a hand in the debate, and help , dodge the missiles—and then the man says every hen ,in the place shall be sold in the morning, and puts on his things and goes down the street, and the woman dons her hoops, and has every one of those hens housed and contented in two' minutes, and the only sound heard on the premises is the hammering by the eldest boy as he mends the broken pickets. l

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