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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 3, 21 April 1894, Page 5

y lit ST Shipment of LAMPS tn hmjf * including the patent the Duplex, and the genuine Rochester. W. C. WILKINS, Ibonmongeb, Tay st. . gOUTHLAND COUNTY. 1760 Main,. East, and Oteramika Boadr, Gorge clearing and grubbing. 1761 Main North Road, Main Road Wa£~ lacetown to Waianiwa, the road between sections 7 and 8, Block XIV, New RiverHundred, Gorse and broom grubbing. 1762 Wallacetown Riding Roads, maintenance gravel. WRITTEN TENDERS for the above works will be received at this office until it a.m. on Friday, the 27th April, 1891. They must be addressed to the Chairman, and marked outside “ Tender for Contract Na. (and name of work.)” Specifications and drawings can be seen atthis office. Also for No. 1760, at Mr Taylor’s store, W< iod lands. Fot Nos. 1761,1762, at Mr Hi H. PowcllV, Wullacetown. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. N.B.—A deposit in cash or marked cheques must accompany each tender, amounting Co 5 per cent, on same. R. P. MacGOUN, County Clerk and Treasurer. County Council Office, Invercargill, 19th April; 1894. JL D. SUTHERLAND Bookseller, Stationer, and Tobacconist. School Books a specialty ; good cheap Writing Paper and Envelopes; Books by the best authors; Pansy Series sold at all prices fronn One Penny; Quarterlies and Family Novelist ; Girls’ and Boys’ Own Paper; Princess Novelette and hun—dreds of others; Cole’s Fun Doctor* and Picture Book posted to any address, 2s 6d each —Walking Sticks at all prices; Tobaccos, Snuff, Cigars 1 , and Cigarettes, of the best brands. Note Address—Next Albion Hotel.

Whoever has done a great, immortal work will be as little hurt by its reception fi:om the public, or swayedt by the opinions of the critics, asr at sane man in a madhouse is affected by the upbraidings and aggression* of the insane. An old woman in the Calton Glasgow was told by her son, a sailor, that the “ Glen ” Line, in which he had sailed, made the longest stretch known, going as far as China. “ £ dinna ken hoo far that may be, 1 * answered his mother; but I’m gey certain that the Claes Line stretches farther, for it gangs frae pole to pole.’* A wealthy London merchant is reported as having said —“ I always feel happy when I am advertising, for then I know that, waking oxr sleeping, I have a strong though silent orator working for me ; one who never tires, never sleeps, never make* mistakes, and who is certain to enter* the households, from which, if at alf, my trade must come.” The Sultan of Turkey is a monomaniac o» the subject of carriages. He has been steadily engaged in making a collection of such for the past twenty years, and now has nearly five hundred of all makes and kinds. W. H. Mathieson of the American Carriage* Factory says he would be delighted to the acquaintance of any one so affected, sue. his stock is replete with vehicles of all all prices, and all good values.—Adyt.