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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5529, 16 December 1878, Page 3

Lectures WELLINGTON YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. T O • N I G H T , At 8 o’clock. A LECTURE, IN AID OF TUB LIBRARY, Will bo delivered in ST. JOHN’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Willis-atreot, by tho REV. DR. EO9EBY, Of Dunedin. SUBJECT: “THE FLOWERY LAND, CHINA AND THE CHINESE." Admission —One Shilling. L. HALLIWELL, Hon. See. MR. HENRY YARLEY’S addresses will be continued this week. Particulars will be published in to.morrow’s Times. For to-night’s meeting please ace the evening papers. Bible Reading at the Congregational Church, Woodward-street, at 3.30. Public Notices fJIHE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND, INCREASE OF CAPITAL. Issue of 27,500 New Shares, of £lO Each, Notice is hereby given that the “Transfer Books ” of the Bank will bo Closed from the 25th to the 3.lst December, both days inclusive, preliminary to Allotment of the New Shares amongst the proprietors then on the Share Register. D. L. MURDOCH, General Manager. Note. —The New Issue will be allotted as near as may be in the proportion of Three New Shares to Bight Old Shares. Holders of less than three Shares will receive no Allotment. Amount due on each letter of allotment will be payable in one sum on 31st March, 1879; but Shareholders may prepay the amount, and the sum so paid will, until 31st March, 1879, bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum, Auckland, 9th December, 1878. w ELLINGTON CITY B Y-L A W S . COUNCIL The following By-law having been adopted at a special meeting of the City Council held on the 12th DECEMBER, 1878, will be confirmed at the ordinary meeting to be held on the 9 th JANUARY, 1879, at 7.30 p.m.“ No owner, driver, or conductor of any licensed carriage shall carry or permit to be carried in or upon any such carriage any coffin or deceased human body.” CHARLES C. GRAHAM, Town Clerk. (Jl EBB AO B SCHOOL. The committee of the Terrace School appeal to the parents of scholars, and the inhabitants of the school district, for contributions toward prizes for the deserving pupils. Contributions will be received up to Tuesday next by Messrs. F. O. Cook, J. Burns, E. T. Field, R. B. Gore, A. Lindsay, and W. Baird. W. H. WEST, Chairman of Committee. IN THE ESTATE OP THE LATE MAGGIE GRAHAM, MASTBBTON. All approved claims against the above estate will be paid after this date on application at the office of EDWARD PEARCE, Executor to the Estate. Wellington, 10th December, 1878. gCH OO L PRIZES. THE COMMITTEE of the Mount Cook Schools being desirous of awarding prizes to deserving Scholars at the commencement of the forthcoming Christmas vacation, respectfully solicit donations in that behalf. Contributions will be received up to MONDAY AFTERNOON NEXT by James Smith, Esq. (Chairman of the Committee), the Rev. Mr. Coffey, the two branches of the Bank of New Zealand, and by the undersigned, SAMUEL COSTALL, Hon. Sec. Wellington, December 12, 1878. BW ZBA LAN D RIFLE ASSOCIATION. Volunteers and others desirous of joining the Association are requested to give in their names at once to the undersigned, or to the members of the Executive Committee, Wellington, from whom every information can be obtained. Committee : Captain Thompson, Kaiwarrwarra. Captain Crowe, Mount Cook Depot. Captain Best, Abel Smith-street. Mr. W. J. Scott, Manners-street. Mr. A. P. Mason, Abel Smith-street. FRANCIS STEVENS, Secretary. RCADE NOTICE. On and after the 17th INSTANT the Arcade will close at 5 o’clock in the evening, Saturdays and special days at 10 o'clock at night. Shops and offices are now to let, either by the week or for Saturday nights only, at moderate rentals. Commercial Travellers will find many conveniences for the display of their samples. The Hall will be let for entertainments, meetings, concerts, lectures, exhibitions, flower shows, bazaars, &c. The Ladies’ Promenade Gallery can be let separately if required. For taems apply to FRANCIS SIDEY, On the premises. Music Geo. rbiohardt’S Pianoforte & Music Warehouse. PIANOS FROM THE FACTORIES OF—KIRKMAN AND SON BRINSMEAD AND SON KAPS HOBLLING AND SPANGENBBRG ROLOFF And other Celebrated Makers, at prices varying from Fifty to Eighty Guineas, sold for Cash at only Ten per cent, above London Prices, or on the Deterred Payment System at a small advance on the above quotations. A Largo Assortment of VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC To hand ex Rialto and Margaret Galbraith, CHAPPELL’S & BOOSEY’S MUSICAL CABINET, PRICE—ONE SHILLING. All Sheet Music at Half Price. NOVELTIES. NOVELTIES. GEO. RBICHARDT’S PIANOFORTE & MUSIC WAREHOUSE Lambton-quat, Adjoining Mr. James’ Furniture Warehouse HE SMITH O R GAN AT MELBOURNE PRICES Free at any Port in Now Zealand, Customers should insist on seeing these remarkable Organs, which are now being shown by all the principal music firm.? in Europe and the colonies. They should be tested in a large hall, where their vast superiority over all other organs for Power, Brilliancy, and .Kaput Articulation most be heard to be realised. They coat less money than any other organ ot repute. Send for price-list to Allan and Co., Melbourne; Ohas. Begg and Co., Dunedin; Milner and Thomson, Jas. Sponcely, and G. H. Merton, Christchurch ; W. M. Staunton, Nelson; Hoffman and Sons, Auckland; Jacobs and Moir, Invercargill; P. W. Hutton and i Co.) Timaru ; Bonayno and Cotteroll, Oamaru.