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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5444, 7 September 1878, Page 2

rpHE NEW ZEALAND MAIL JL 13 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. By Post or Coach, 6s. 6d. ; Town delivery, Ga. quarterly. CONTENTS FOR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7." ’ PAGE. Advertisements 1,2, 25, 20, 27, 28 Select Poetry—The Bee’s Song .. .. .. 3 Odds and Ends •• 3 Ladies’ Column —Fashions for June .. .. S The Novelist—The Golden Butterfly. Chapters XXIV. and XXV. .. .. .. .. 4. The Storyteller—A Masonic Incident.. .. 6 Scientific—Wellington Philosophical Society .. 6 The Sketoher— The Mammoth Hotels of Paris and San Francisco Compared—French Oyster , Fisheries —An American Prophet .. .. 0 Diplomacy—Official Secrecy 7 I Social Topics—Analtyic Scandal 8 ! General News.. .. 8 I Cape of Good Hope-Handicapping Intellect in the British Army .. .. .. .. .. 8 | Our London Letter •• 0 ' Parliament ’. 9 1 Telegraphic News 11 News by Cable 12 Shipping Intelligence 13 The Wellington Markets 13 I Commercial News .. .. 13 I Postal Notices 14 j Announcements —Births, Marriages, and Deaths 14 ! Weekly Bulletin 14 Talk op the Week 14 Town News 15 Banquet at Christchurch—The Murray (not of Bruce) of the South .. •.. .. .. 10 The Fencing Act, 1878 —Carterton 17 1 Mr. Ballance and his Friends—Supreme Court in i Bankruptcy—Quarterly Licensing Meeting .. 18 Sporting ..18 Chess 18 Intercolonial News 19. Xnterprovincial News 19 Death by Drowning—Waikato .. .. ..19 * ,r it a t_J! a. A Heartless Swindler —Mining in the Sister Colonies—The Annexation of New Guinea —Ten Weeks Incarceration on a False Charge—The Proposed Trans-Continental Railway of Australia—Captain Cook's Statue 20 New Bills —Dangerous Goods Act, 1870, Amendment Bill, Friendly Societies Amendment .. 21 The Politician— Friendly Societies—Financial Policy—Colonial Railways—Colonialisation of the land Revenue—The Poor Man’s Friend 21 Clippings— What the “World" Says—A Wonderful Marksman—Canadian Loyalty—Termination of the Berlin Conference—A New British Dependency—The Californian Working Men's Platform—The Smallest Kingdom in the World —The Royal Colonial Institute —A Remarkable Soldier .. 23 I Farm and Garden .. ..24 ARRIAGES, BUGGIES, WAGGONETTES, SPORTING and MARKET CARTS. All descriptions of Vehicles on sale, and made to order. Repairs executed with despatch, and at moderate charges. Tho undersigned having secured the services of efficient tradesmen in all tho Branches of the Coaohhuilding trade, can guarantee all orders entrusted to him to bo faithfully attended to. R. W. WATSON, Union Carriage Factory, Courtonay-placo and Taranaki-streot. N.B.—A Veterinary Shoeing Forgo has been opened on tfya premises under the management of a skilled and competent Farrier. Lowest charges. JOHN MAHKS (LATE HOWLANDS AND CO.) "WILLIS • STREET. Has received a Large Assortment of FIEST-CLAS S WATCHES, Consisting of Ladles’ Gold Geneva and Lever Watches, £3 to £25 each. Gentlemen’s Gold Hunting Watches, £7103, to £35 each. Gentlemen's Silver Hunting Lever Watches, £4 to £lOlO3. each. INTENDING PURCHASERS are invited to Inspect the above, which are by the well-known makers Rotheram, Russell and Son, Stamford, Settle Bros., Klein, Ehrhardt, &o.‘ JUST RECEIVED, a Large Assortment of Silver Jewelry, consisting of all the newest designs in Sets, Necklets, Loekcts, Ladles’ Alberts, Studs, Solitaires, and ciosscs. JOHN MARKS WILLIS-STBEET, L OAN AND DISCOUNT COMPANY, LAMBTON-QUAY. MONEY. This Company is prepared to offer advantages to persons In want of accommodation. Money advanced in sums from £5 to £5009, on personal security; for instance, — Persons borrowing £5 receive £4 10s. cash „ , £lO ■ „ £9 „ - „ „ £2O „ £lB Repayable 1: y twenty instalments of Is. in ,tho pound’, per week. Thus a person borrowing £5 would pay twenty instilments of ss. per week. Bills discounted daily. Advances made upon deposit of deeds, either freehold or leasehold, bills of lading, bond certificates,, life policies, or any other tangible security. All transactions entertained and money advanced! without delay if security approved of. Forms of application to be obtained gratis. Office hours—From 10 a.m< to 5 p.m,; Mondays,, 10a,m. to Bp.m. ' Closed on Saturdays. L. L. HARRIS, General-Manager. MR. MOFFIT, Dentist, opposite Mr. Piimmor'at new Hotel.