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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 958, 6 July 1881, Page 2 (Supplement)

SALES BY PITT & BENNETT. J>ITT & JJENNETT Beg to intimate that their MONTHLY SALE of SHEEPSKINS, WOOL & TALLOW Will take place on WEDNESDAY NEXT, AT MAKARAKA, AT 12 NOON. 237 For Sale. PU A T A I RUN, with 3000 SHEEP CATTLE, HORBES, &c., &c. For further particulars apply to—--222 PITT & BENNETT. Gisborne Library. rTIHE Annual Meeting of Subscribers will be held in the Reading Room on WEDNESDAY the 13th July, for the purpose of receiving the report, and election of Members of Committee for the ensuing year. EDWIN WOON, 240 Hon. Sec’

PRELIMINARY NOTICE. A FINE ART AND Industrial EXHIBITION, Will be held during the Month of August 1881. IN AID OF Funds of the G-isborne PUBLIC LIBRARY. List of Exhibits: Class I—Paintings—Oil and Water —and Photographs. „ 2—Flowers —Wax, Paper, 8 ell, Wool, Leather, &c. „ 3—Pot Plants, Ferns, and Cut Flowers in Vases. „ 4—Prints, Lithographs, Inchings, Drawings and Illuminations. „ 5-^—Models of Ships, Houses, Bridges, Mechanical, &c. „ 6— Fancy Carving, Inlaying, Turning and Staining. ~ 7 —-Shells, Seaweed, Moss, and Presspd Ferns. ~ B—Stuffed Animals, Birds, Fish, and Reptiles. „ 9—Fancy Needlework, Card work, Beedwork and Woolwork. ~ 10—Maori and Foreign Curios. „ 11 —Antique Coins, Firearms, and Relics. „ 12—Kauri Gum and Greenstone Work, Jewellery, Watch and Clock Work. „ 13 —Botanical, Mineral, Zoological, Entomological specimens & fossils „ 14—Astronomical, Philosophical, Surgical, and Musical Instruments. „ 15—Fancy Pottery, Antique and Modern China and Glassware. „ 16— Sewing Machines, Electroplated Ware, and Yankee notions. ~ 17 —Wool, Grain, and Seeds, (samples local production). „ 18 —Local Manufactures, (under supervision of Committee). First and seeond-class awards of merit will be given for the best, and best several articles exhibited. Intending exhibitors are requested to communicate to the Hon. Secretary, not later than the Ist June, 1881, the name, nature, and number of articles they wish to exhibit. Further particulars may be the Hon. Secretary, the Librarian, or members of Committee. EDWIN WOON, Hon. Secretary. May 3rd, 1881. 72 Have You Heard the News ! THE London Photograpic Company, (Next the British Empire Hotel). Are taking Carte de Visites at 5s per |doz ; 7s 6d per doz. For Three "Weeks Only, As we have bought a business, and engaged to open in Auckland next month. Every Sitter will be Presented with a Ticket in a FREE ART UNION. £3O worth of Prizes to be drawn for, before we leave Gisborne, as there are only about 50 Tickets left, we should advise all to hurry up. HAVING heard that some Scurrilous Rival has been reporting that our local -work will not compare with the specimens we exhibit, which it is insinuated were not done by ourselves. I beg to inform the Public that every Portrait and View exposed in our rooms was taken by myself, and no other, and that I have been in the Photographic Business in Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand for 21 years, as can be testified by most of the leading business people of Gisborne. 220 C. H. MONKTON.