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Southland Times, Issue 1579, 17 May 1872, Page 4

Public TSoticea. PROSPECTUS OP THB SOUTH PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. capital £200,000, In 20,000 Shares of £10 each, £6 of which will be at once called up, viz., £1 on Application, and £5 on Allotment. For the convenience of investors, one-half of the called amount may be paid by Bills at 3 and 6 months, bearing 8 per cent, interest. Pbovisionai, Dibectobs : Hon. Edward Cohen, M.P. Charles Croaker, Esq., (Messrs Croaker, Scott and Co.) Charles Ibbotson, Esq., (Messrs Dalgety, Ibbotson, and Co., Geelong.) Hon. C. J. Jenner, M.L.C. Capt. Hugh Macmeikan. R. Twentyman, Esq. Bankebs : Union Bank of Australia. The object of the Company is to procure and maintain a fleet of first-class steamers, to be employed in the trade between the several Australian Colonies and New Zealand, and in such other branches of trade aa may be considered advisable. In the first instance, it is proposed to purchase the undermentioned well-known vessels, now the property of Messrs M'Meckan and Blackwood, who are retiring from business — their partnership expiring by effluxion of time at the end of June next :—* Omeo 820 tons ... 120 horse-power. Albion 806 do ... 160 do Alhambra ... 765 do ... 140 do Tararua ... 692 do ... 155 do Gothenburg... 674 do ...120 do Claud Hamilton66B do ... 100 do Rangitoto ... 574 do ... 140 do Aldinga ... 447 do ... 140 do Coorong ... 390 do ... 70 do These vessels are all registered at Melbourne. They have all been recently surveyed by Mr Wilham Duthie, late surveyor to the Southern Insurance Company; Captain M'Callum, surveyor to Lloyds'; and Mr Alexander Kirkwood, formerly foreman to Messrs Scott Russell and Co., of London, and for years past superintending engineer of the above Bteam Bbips. The reports of these gentlemen show that these vessels have been kept in excellent condition, and are now in first-class order. They can be delivered to the Company, free from any incumbrance, as they arrive in the port of Melbourne, after the 10th June next, without interruption to the several trades in which they are engaged. For full particulars, and forma of application for shares, apply to H. J. GIBB3 & CO., Invercargill. EDUCATION RESERVES, SOUTHLAND. APPLICATIONS will be received by Mr John H. Baker, Survey Office, lnvercargfll, from persons wishing to lease any of the Educational Reserves in the Invercargill, New River, Jacob's Biver, Winton, or Mabel Hundreds. Copiea of the Otago Regulations, and conditions for the leasing of Education Reserves, can be obtained from Mr Baker. TO EARMERS. fTAHE undersigned ia prepared to purchaae good 1 samples of MALTING BARLEY, in any quantity. Samples by post will have immediate attention. J. T. MARTIN, Black Eagle Brewery, Invercargill. T_) AD COFFEE has been so long an article of consumption in New Zealand, that publio taste has almost degenerated to a preference of the cheap and nasty compounds sold as Coffee, instead of the fragrant berry. The Storekeepers may be to blame for pushing the Bale of the article on which they have the largest profit ; but the public have a certain and simple remedy in their own hands by asking for, and insisting on being supplied with, the Coffee bearing the name of " Babbon, Gbant & Co." on the wrapper. The retail price, 2s per lb., will not be grudged by any who can appreciate REALLY FINE COFFEE. -jl/T ITCHELL & CO., MERCHANTS, Deestreet, desire to intimate to their customers that they are prepared to supply in any quantity the various qualities of COFFEE prepared by Babbon, Gbant & Co., Dunedin, all of wliich they can with confidence recommend as being at least equal to the best of their several kinds ever introduced into this market. BARRON, GRANT & CO.'S COFFEE. A FRESH SUPPLY of this excellent COFFEE just received direct from Dunedin by DAVID SMYTH, Storekeeper, Tay-street. HPHE COFFEE prepared by Babbon, Gbant, k Co., now a favorite brand in this market, is constantly kept in stock by MATHESON & SMITH, WHOLESALE AND EETAII/ GEOCEES AND WINE MEECHANTS, Dee-street. r~i OFFEE, certain to please the most fastidious, imported and prepared by Babbon, Gbant & Co., Coffee Roasters, Dunedin, and sold by the principal storekeepers and grocers throughout ■ Otago.