Page 4 Advertisements Column 4

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5821, 25 November 1879, Page 4

Auctions THIS DAY, TUESDAY, 25th NOVEMBER. At 11 o’clock. GREAT CLEARING SALE. Every Line will be Sold without the Slightest Reserve. HJIOSS & CO. will sell by public auo- , tion, the whole of their assorted stock, without the slightest reserve, consisting of the following lines : Furniture, toilet sets, dinner services, glassware, American chairs, assorted looking-glasses, cutlery, book-cases, washstands, carpets, saddlery, &c. Bona fide unreserved sale. H. MOSS & CO., Auctioneers, Lambton-quay. WEDNESDAY, 10th DECEMBER, At 12 o’clock. IMPORTANT SALE OF NEWSPAPER PLANT, TO BE HELD AT GISBORNE, POVERTY BAY. BOURKE & SMITH have received instructions from the trustees in the estate of H. E. Webb, to dispose of, BY PUBLIC AUCTION, At their Mart, on the above date— The whole of tho working plant of the Poverty Bay Standard, all in splendid order, and nearly new. Full particulars and inventory on application to the auctioneers. Publications Shortly will bo Published, T HE WELLINGTON ALMANACK, DIRECTORY, CALENDAR, AND DIARY, FOR 1880. TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR OP PUBLICATION. CONTENTS: Nautical. —Ephemeris for 1880; the sailing directions for the whole of the New Zealand coast, the Chatham Islands, and the port of Newcastle, N.S.W., are fully given, with the latest notifications of the Marine Board ; general signals in use at all the porta of New Zealand; charges leviable on shipping at ports of Wellington, Wanganui, and Mauawatu ; hi»h water constants ; New Zealand mean time ; rule of the road at sea ; shipping list of vessels belonging to Wellington, with rig and tonnage ; list of Union Steam Shipping Company’s steamers, with tonnage, code signals, and name of master ; also of Anchor Line of steamers ; list of ships sailing under the flag of the New Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw, Savill, and Co., with tonnage, number, and code. Calendar —With high water tableland [diary; also Jewish calendar. The Official Dieectoey comprises the Governor’s establishment; the Cabinet, the members of the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives ; General Government officials in connection with Public Works, the Treasury, Stamps, Audit, Post Office, Telegraph, Customs, Marine, Native and Defence, Crown Lands, Goldfields, Education, Immigration, Land Claims, Surveys, Registration, Printing, and Insurance. The directory of the General Government in the various provincial districts contains a list of Supreme and District Court Judges, Sheriffs, Crown Solicitors and Prosecutors, Resident Magistrates, Justices of the Peace, Clerks of District Courts, Coroners, Returning Officers, Foreign Consuls, &0., &c, &c. City Dieectoey.—To ensure accuracy every street and thoroughfare is being canvassed from house to house. Countey Dieectoey. —Different persons ip different districts have undertaken this work, and every effort is being made to secure accuracy. Fabm and Gaeden. —Comprehensive gardeners’ calendar ; botanical names of English grasses ; number of plants required to an acre; how to sow seeds of various kinds ; germination of agricultural, vegetable, and flower seeds; hints on forming and laying out gardens, grafting, manuring, planting and sowing, greenhouses, weighing hay or cattle, &c. Valuable, with most explicit instructions. Wills. —Under this heading will be found some useful hints, with a form of will which may be used to avoid the evils of intestacy ; also particulars concerning probate and administration. Postal. —The postal information comprises a list of the Wellington country post offices and postmasters ; the day and hour of mails closing for country districts ; information regarding the delivery of letters, letters unclaimed, registered letters, sailors’ and soldiers’ do, and rates of postage beyond the colony ; post cards, newspaper, book post, pattern and sample post, articles not allowed to go through the post, &c. ; particulars concerning Post Office Savings Bank ; list of money order offices throughout the colony, and commission charged on money orders for various amounts. Telegeafhic. —The regulations of the telegraph are given in full, with a list of stations in New Zealand, Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, and Tasmania ; examples, giving the wording and charging of telegrams to Australia and London are added ; also particulars regarding urgent, delayed, stamped, and weather telegrams. Customs Duties, Custom House tables, and information as to passing entries. Asteonomical. —Ephemeris, eclipses,chronological notes, &c., for 1880. Legal. —Table of fees payable iu Supreme, District, and Resident Magistrate's Courts, date of circuit sittings, sittings in bankruptcy, in banco, and in chambers, holidays and vacations, Court officials. Public Institutions, Societies, &c. —This comprises a list of banks, shipping, and insurance companies; loan, land, and building societies; Masonic, Odd Fellows, Foresters, Shepherds, Good Templar, and Reohabite Lodges ; churches of all denominations, and the various associations, societies, clubs, &c., in the city. The office-bearers iu connection with each are also given. Government Offices.— A directory, carefully corrected, is given of the occupiers of the various rooms on each floor. Statistics. Several carefully compiled tables of colonial statistics. TO THE PUBLIC. All Persons who have Changed their Place of Residence since the City was canvassed, and who are desirous of their name and residence being correctly given in the “ Wellington Almanac” for 1880, will please send word or call at this office to make the necessary alteration. This must be done at once, or the publishers will not be responsible for errors. In the Press, AND SHORTLY TO BE PUBLISHED (Under the auspices of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited), rjpHE NEW ZEALAND TOURIST A Guide and Handbook for Viators to the Colony, with Maps and Illustrations. PRICE-ONE SHILLING.