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Southland Times, Issue 1587, 4 June 1872, Page 4

JPaOlie Notices. ! NOTICE. i WE, the undersigned, take this opportunity of returning our sincere thanks to our ! customers generally for the very liberal support j they have accorded us during the whole time we have been in business, and would beg to intimate that Mr John Bath succeeds thereto. He has been a long time in our employ, and we can confidently recommend him to our late customers as a tradesman of a superior character, and worthy of their support. a. W. WSAVEN & Co. WITH reference to the above, J. BATH bega to announce that, having entered into partnership with Mr B. HUFFADINB, of the old-established business near the Noah's Ark, he can assure all the old customers of his late employers that no effort shall be wanting on his part to give them every satisfaction. Gentlemen requiring their Carriages and Buggies overhauled or repaired, may rely upon the work being done in a first-class manner. Note the Address — HTTFFADINE, BATH & Co., COACHBTTIXDEES, WHEELWBIGHTS, BiACXBMITHS, Near the Hospital, Dee street, Invercargill. PEOSPECTUS OP THE 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. Peovisionax Dibectoes : 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. E. Twentyman, Esq. Bankees : 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 as may be considered advisable. la the firBt 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 ... 755 do ... 140 do Tararua ... 692 do ... 155 do Gothenburg... 674 do ... 120 do Claud Hamilton66B do ... 100 do Eangitoto ... 574 do ... 140 do Aldinga ... 447 do ... 140 do Coorong ... 890 do ... 70 do These vessels are all registered at Melbourne. They have all been recently surveyed by Mr William 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 steam ships. 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. As the share-list closes in Melbourne on the 10th June, intending applicants for shares will please forward their applications without delay. - For full particulars, and forma of application for shares, apply to H. J. GIBBS & CO., Invercargill. I) AD COFFEE has been so long an article of consumption in New Zealand, that public 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 sale 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, Grant & Co." on the wrapper. The retail price, 2s per lb., will not be grudged by any who can appreciate EEALLY FINE COFFEE. ■jIyTITCHELL & 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 BaeboN, Geant & Co., Dunedin, all of which they can with confidence recommend as being at least equal to the best of their several kinds ever introduced into this market. BAEEON, GEANT & CO.'S COFFEE. A FEESH SUPPLY of this excellent COFFEE just received direct from Dunedin by DAVID SMYTH, Storekeeper, Tay-street. riiHE COFFEE prepared by Babeon, Gbant, & Co., now a favorite brand in this market, is constantly kept in stock by MATHESON & SMITH, WHOLESALE AND DETAIL GBOCEBB AND WINE MEECHANTS, Dee-street. f^ OFFEE, certain to please the most fastidious, imported and prepared by Baebon, Geant & Co., Coffee Eoasters, Dunedin, and sold by the principal storekeepers and grocer s througnou Otago.