Gisboi.se, 31st October, 1882. TO E. K. BROWN ESQ., GISBORNE. DEAR SIR,—We, the undersigned, respectfully you to allow yourself to be nominated for the ensuing term, as Mayor of Gisborne, and we promise to use our best endeavors to secure your return. Yours faithfully— John Townley, John Somervell, James Robb, J. C. Dunlop, John Maher, J. Lawrence, William Graham, Thomas Usher, And. Graham, H. J. Bushnell, Thelwall 4 Co., F. Dufaur, James Brown, M. Jennings, J. Sigley, Josiah Tutchen, P. McFarlane, Fredk. J. Shelton, Edward ffraa. Ward, G. F. Butt. W. A. Friar, Wm. Teat, Wm. Adair, Wm. Maude, Wm. Miller, Carlaw Smith, H. C. Boylan, A. Gordon Croll, J. East, J. H. Stubbs, Geo. Humphreys, Malcolm McDonald, A Robb, B. Bentley, W. Oulton, Thos. Adams, Edwin Woon, S. J. Bromley, 8. Doleman, John Coleman, John Harvey, M. J. Gannon, C. D. Berry.
To JOHN TOWNLEY and others signing the Requisition asking me to allow myself to be nominated for election to the effice of Mayor for the ensuing term. GENTLEMEN, —There are several names in the above Requisition that 1 would have preferred to have seen where my name is, but as it is your wish that I should represent you, I have much pleasure in acceding to your request, and, if elected, will space no trouble to further the interests of the Borough. The harmony and intelligence that exists in the Borough Council and the Harbor Board as it is at present constituted will, I am sure, facilitate my labors in your interests, and ensure the rapid Progress and Advance of GISBORNE, 150 E. K. BROWN. FRANKLYN HODGES, TOKOMARU HOTEL. THE Proprietor begs to announce that he is now prepared to accommodat Travellers, and also is in a position to SUPPLY’ the very best of LIQUORS to those who may journey in his direction. Special attention has been paid to the domestic comforts essential to comfortable travel; and to the requisites to that end for horse as well man. Good Paddocking. Good Cuisine. First-class Bed-rooms ; and Liquors specially selected of the most Celebrated Brands and Premier Quality. The neatest house on the Coast. Civility, Punctuality, and Attention. 163 To Cricketers. James Snyder Browne, HAS just received, to his special order, all kinds of CRICKETING MATERIAL, by the best London Makers, comprising : — Bats, Balls, Stumps, Leg Guards, Gauntlets. Gloves, Scobe Books, &c., &c. Men’s and Boys’ Clubs dealt'with on vert Liberal Terms.
NEW BOOKS, By the best Standard Authors, now opened and For Salk at JAMES SNYDER BROWNE’S BOOK REPOSITORY Gladstone Road Gisborne. Of which the following is a portion only :— POPULAR SCIENCE:—Ants, Bees and Wasps (Lubbock) ; Huxley’s Elementary Physiology ; Huxley’s Essays & Lay Sermons ; Lubbock’s Origin & Metamorp' osis of Insects, Erchomenon or the Republic of Materialism; Mind Reading; Babbitt’s Vital Materialism; Faraday’s Various Forces of Nature ; Primeval Man; (Duke of Argyll) ; Judd Volcanoes ; Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism ; The Human Race (Figuier) ; James Mill (biography); J. S. Mill’s Criticism ; Compte’s Philosophy of the Sciences ; Footfalls on the Boundaries of knother World (Dale Owen); EnnetU'iser’s History of Magic (2 vole.); Flowers of the Sky (Proctor).
GENERAL LITERATURE: McCarthy’ Epoch of Reform, 1830-50; Half-hours of English History; Stretton’s In Prison ami Out ; The Nerves ; Wonderful Things of All Nations (2 vols.); Montaigne’s Essays ; Morley’s English Literature; Alisons’s Epitome History of Europe ; Boulton’s Russian Empire; Frank Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural History ; Hay’s Western Barbary ; Kingsley’s Phaetbon ; Chalmers’ Astronomical Disccorees Giffard’s Deeds of Naval Daring ; Life of Grimaldi by Charles Dickens ; Howe’s Roughing it. in Van Dieman’s Land; Howell’s Undiscovered Country ; Kingston’s Adventures in the Far West ; Kingston at the South Pole ; Secrets Worth Knowing • Life of the Prince Consort; Peonies Edition ; History of Ireland ; Higginson’s Common Sense about Women ; Health Lectures for the People ; Peabody’s English Journalism ; Triumphs of Perseverance (Cooper); Manners of the Aristocracy ; The World at Home ; Recent Polar Voyages ; Gillmore’s Land of the Boer; Newman’s The Lone Streets; Plunket’s Burke’s and John Bright’s Speeches ; Modern History of Ireland ; Life of Lord Beaconsfield ; Brown’s Gypsies of Spain ; Life of George Stephenson ; Delusions and Impostures ; History of Eng land (White); Alison’s History of Europe ; Contributions to Controvertial Writings ;In the Rocky Mountains; Hallam and DeSohne’s Constitutional History of England : Gibbuns’ Roman Empire (4 vols); Disraeli’s Curiosities of Literature ; Calamities and Quarrels of Authors ; Romance of History, etc.
MISCELLANEOUS —Card Sharping Exposed, by Houdin ; Life of Houdin ; Family Doctor ; Consult Me ; The Apocrypha; Manual of Bee Keeping ; Book of Noble English Women ; The Great Army ; Sketches of Thomas Lieh’s District ; Eminent Soldiers ; Poetical Ingenuities ; Forster’s Life of Charles Dickens ; Art of Public Speaking ; Debaters Handbook ; Treatment of the Hair ; Hearing and How to Keep It; The Nerves ; The Eyesight ; Long Life and How to Reach It ; Agony Columns of the Timos; Half-hours with the Best Authors. 93
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1193, 4 November 1882, Page 3
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795Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1193, 4 November 1882, Page 3
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