Page 2 Advertisements Column 5

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5100, 28 July 1877, Page 2 (Supplement)

FASHIONABLE COSTUMES : For less than the;cost of making at the great sale, te aeo house. ONLY A few left. i ; COSTUMES 10s Od COSTUMES 12s 6d COSTUMES 13s 6d COSTUMES 15s 6d 150 a '."- LADIES' CLOTH JACKETS ! 2s 6d, 5s 6ci; 7s 6d. . 115 ;,.:.":"'!,: LADIES'SEAL JACKETS ,: 4s lid 6s &&*: '■.'.■":": JAMES SMITH, TE ARO HOUSE, Cuba-street, 23rd July, 1877, The following; extracts > from :a bill for meat supplied inore~than a hundred years ago;is interesting; at, present ;,-<■" Mr. D . His bill, 1773. July .ye ,10,,f0r a neck-o'f veal, ;wd ft 2.8 jsd ; ; i: , July ye .17,;. for two.legs of ,nioten, ; wcL lop. ss. 4d.; July .ye 30, for,a ; paepk pf.lam, wd. 4p,;ls. 6d.; August.ye.l4, for,a.rump of beef/ wd. 22p. :7s. ; 4d. -August ye 25, ,fpr aline of, tlanv ; wd.' 4p., .Is.: Bd.j ,Sept v ye 2,'for'27p. of beef, -76. Sept.,ye 16, for 36p. of: beefj. from this that the; price of ;the .best joints averaged 4d;.per 1b,.,.< uhiu-.-.-i- ]-. >m tin: wifERPEOdS-!T#ESi) MANTLES. ■■ --:-i.:..35:. J 9d:- i ;o .:.-!.....'..; r Ud'(2 .' :>,:■ .-4s : 6d-.r ■•" ■■■>:■■.■ ]■.-<•■:■.•x9*-lld : u ■-■'■ ■<■■ Gs9d •■; : • ■•■;[ ,filoa.!-.6dj .... 7s 6d lis 9d j :--:.• Ss.9d ; ; llsiOd ■-.::-,: -.: '.: ■.- , 15a M,, f • HOOPING A; BARREL. Putting a hoop on the family flour barrel is an, operation that;j will hardly an encore- . The wpmangeneraljiy: attempfe.it before, the; man ,comes home to dinner. She sets the hoop up on the end of the staves, takes ; a; deliberate. aim w'itji .the; rolling-pin, .and then shutting; both,eyes brings the pin down: with all.the force of one, arm,, while,]the. other, instinctively shields her face.'. .Then she makes a : dive for the camphor and : unbleached, calico, and when, the, man comes home she is sitting, back of the stove, [ thinking. o£ St. Stephen.; and..'. the ] other [ /hartyrs, while a burnt dinnei,v'.and;.Uie]cam'p%ryre.strHgAT THE GREAT;SALE; AT TE ARO ; HOUSE.- 1 LOOK AT THIS LIST OF PRICES LADIES' FELT SKIRTS,;

4s lid. LADIES' CLOTH JACKETS, LADIES' SEAL JACKETS, 4s lid. gling heroically for the mastery;, 1 . He says if she had kept her temper she wouldn't have got hurt. And he visits the Barrel himself, aud puts the hdop on very carefully, and adjusts it so nicely to the tojrpf every Btave that only a few smart knock; apparently are needed to bring: iij down al 'right';'then' he : laughs to" himself to'thinl w hat ai fuss his wife kicked up for a, simpl matter that only needed a little patiena to adjust itself; and then he gets th hammer, and fetches the hoop a sharp rap on oik! side, and tin- other side flies up and catches him on the 'bridge'of die nose, filling his soul with wrath and his eye: with tears, and the next instant'that barre is flying across the room, accompanied bj the hammer, and another candidate" foi 1 camphor and rag is enrolled in the'grea army that is unceasingly the grave. ' ' ' .','"..';'.., 'Z'„\ ,-•