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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1802, 1 May 1874, Page 1

I - -Amusements; >Bio. ACADEMY'OPJiUSIC. THIS (FRIDAY) EVENING,; MAY' 1. BENEFIT TO On 'produced'jLord v I'" Ly ttton's' beautiful 'Play of 'the ( _ LADY OP LYONHU Pauline - ■>• Miss Clara. Stephenson Claude Molnotte ■. Mr G. W. Collier ; ■' M : To conclude with a Favourite FatcW*'>* TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), 'MAY-2/ Positively tUe Last Sight—Last Night—of the '■ ''• Cfouipauyi -*' " '.' .''' ' ■"•'• '"•' "' " '■• '—— " ' ; '' '""' : ' UNDER Tp GASLIGHT T Railway Sensation.' " ttewiScenery. ' . . Remember Byke! Payette, 3s; Gallery, 2s; Pit, Is. ■ ■ '(frooeriea. , O A ■■■!)■ i:ii<x»""1 .toi..—l say, Tom, where do you buy your groceries? • • Tom,—Me; I don't let the old womanddtbat;' : I believe''silt'gets theih from Mo3o Slxop. ■'-. ;^Bill,—WhV' sort : 'of j,a chap is that ftcG'owan'? I 'have heard a good deal about . liM.;. , ' ; . .. .' . Toh. —I don't' know much' about Mm, only that! get good Tobacco from him.' My old woman says he'is,the fairest' dealing Grocer A ever.sho saw, for 1 he just tells'the people when a thing is bad, as fast as if it were good. ; Bill,—Docs he, faith; why, most of them . dealers are always praisiug their goods ?v , .' Tom,—l bilieye a fellow always gets on best : bytelling the plain truth, audi know I can't ; . • get-better Butter than my missus brings • ' Bill.—l think he has a Bakery too.;,:, ,, v> ': > Tom.—Yes, faith, I forgot that; and'he makes the best of Bread. • This is soinel have j, for my cribb. . .. ' ;*' .V ' Bill.—Let's see; my word, that ishgoo'tt" '. . bread; it is not so hard and crumbly as sbipte. I'll try McGowau next Saturday. Does he give tick? ' Tom,—Well, I think he will reipairelo know, you pretty well before he\ trusts much. You see, he buys for ready uioaey himself, and that is why he can sell so cheap. ' Bill.—Well, I haven't been getting very good Tea lately, aud i will give Mciowan a try on Saturdays ■< ■:.!.. Insurance. 1 " i 0U T H BR I T I''S H . ft FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCECOMPANYOF'NEWZEAUND. Cahial ■ ■ ■ £750,000. This Popular and purely New Zealand Institution has- the security and inuuonce of more than Nine Hundred Shareholders. Funds invested, and profits retained in the Colony. Lowest current rates. Prompt settlement. • RICHARD HUDSON, ' Agent, Thames. £TAN D A E D VO& AND MARINE ' ' INSURANOECOMPANYOFNEWZEALAND. * THAMES BRANCH. . .-; j». RISKS, LOWEST CURRENT RATES. . G. W. BINNEY, Auckland; EDWIN BlNNJfiir, Grahamstown. a \TEW ZEALAND INSUEANOE 8 i> COMPANX. . FIRE AND MARINE. ' ' ESTABLISHED 1859. Paid-up Capital £100,000 1 Reserve and Re-Insurance Fund £75,000 —■ .'• £175,000 Insurance o every description effected at current rates, and claims promptly and liberally met. HEMY H. WRIGHT, Agent for Thames, AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. FOR MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE, &o. NEW ZEALAND BRANCH: Head Ofkjh; Wellington, Pbesent Asnual Eevenub, £280,000. ACCUMULATED AND INVESTED FUNDS, £1,380,000.'. i T i Persons Assuring with this Office stare the whole profits,' and a Bonus is declared every : fifth year. -. — Agehi;H.H. WRIGHT. : Mhdioai, &mm : JAMES KILQOUR, M.D. Business Notices.,., ;, _ FIEEI EIRE!! FIEEIi! ' J. FEEGUSON ;J BEOS to announce to his numeroui , •• friends and Customers that he ' has on Sale a Large Stock of the best NEWCASTLE COAL, FIREWOOD : (out and uncut), CHARCOAL,.&o., . at the lowest possible price. tfeaoh, opposite the New Goods Wharf; ! ' and at Davy-strcot. N,B.—Uiahamstown Weighbridge; .-..' '6d por load, TELEGBAPH FOEMS.' A NEW SUPPLY of these forms, bound cL up in Books of 200 each, with butt for koeping memorandum of all < messages despatched, JUST PRINTED at the Advertiser Office. " ;■■'■, ;" !; . \ .-These books have been found very.'convenient 1 and useful to business mon, and as they are QKwdiugljckeanave now being largely usoda,_