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HARBOUR SILTING.

In excavating for the stone work of the Graving Hock at Auckland, the workmen have come across some timber of is vessel embedded from eight to nine feet under the present surface. And fho Herald says that about thirty years ago a vessel which had been wrecked was thrown up on the beach at this place, and after the copper, &c., had been removed the hull was allowed to remain. In driving the piles for the coffer down last year an unusuel resistance was met with at this place, and one of the piles on hpiug drawn, after an unsuccessful attempt to drive it home, was found la have a quantity of rope attached to the end of it.- (Should this be the wreck of the vessel referred to, says that paper, it is evident that the silting of the harbour must be progressing very rapidly, when at least eight feet of hard clay lias accumulated over this wreck in the course of thirty years.

Strangers and country settlers coming to Carlyle, are very often at a loss to know which is the bust and cheapest General Drapery and Clothing Establishment in the ‘ district. It. A. Adams’ Cardigan House, ojfers special advantages that can be met with nowhere else in the district, lie keeps the largest and best assorted stock of every description of drapery goods, imported direct —and from the best colonial houses ; which, being; bought on the most advantageous terms, and having thorough knowledge of the business, cmddos him to offer goods of sterling quality at p-iecs that cannot ho improved on by any other house in Now ,5/cahm 1. Evoiy article is marked in plain figures, from which there is no deviation so that inexperienced people are as well served as the best judges, the terms being net cash, without rebate or abatement of any kind. Note the address —R. A . Ada its ; Cardigan House, nearly opposite Town. Hall, Carlyle.—advt. Holloway's Fill .s.—Weal: Stomach.—■ The wisest cannot enumerate one tithe of the distressing symptoms arising from enfeebled digestion, all of wich may be readily dispelled by thes admirable. Pills. They remove all unpleasant tastes from (lie month, together with flatulency, and constipation. Holloway’s Pills rouse the stomach, liver, and every other organ of digestion to that healthy tone which fully enables Ilia stomach to convert ail food and to the nourishment of the body. Hence these Pills arc the surest strongtheiiers and the safest restoratives in nervousness, wasting and chronic debility. Holloway’s Pills arc infallible remedies for impaired appetite, eructations, and a multitude of other disagreeable symptoms, which leader miserable the Jives of: thousands. Their virtues are known by all classes.

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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 276, 5 December 1877, Page 2

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HARBOUR SILTING. Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 276, 5 December 1877, Page 2

HARBOUR SILTING. Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 276, 5 December 1877, Page 2

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