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Thames Star, Volume x, Issue 3182, 1 May 1879, Page 3

' Amusements ACADEMY OF MUSIC. THIS (THURSDAY) EVENING, Flotow's Grand English Opora MARTHA, For the First and Only Time this season. Lady Haebilbt,.. Miss B. A. Wangenhicim: LIONEIi ... Mr CHA3. FIOBENCB Nancy ... ..'. ... Mrs Chas. Florence Sir Tristram Mickleford Mr Henry Hodson Plunket Mr T. B. Browning TO-MORROW (Friday), under distinguished patronage—" GRAND DUCHESS." PRICES OF ADMLSSION : ! Single Tickets—Dress Cin.le, 4s; Stalls, 2s; Pit, la. Packets (six tickets) for tbe season, 20b. Box PJan at Mr R. Burba's. _ Soirees, etc THAMES YOUNG MEN'S CHEISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

FIRST ANNIVERSARY will be held THIS EVENING, MAY Ist, 1879, In the Congregational Church, Mary street. Chair will be taken at £ past 7 o'clock. -^JJbe Revs. R. Laishlet, S. J. Neili and WiTKIN will delirer short addresses upon the work and objects of the Association. The G-rohamßtown Wesleyan Choir, under Mr T. A. Bbili, will render selections of music, which will be interspersed with reoitations from the members. ! A Collection will be made in aid of the fund• of the Association. , 468

Tenders

OLD MEN'S REFUGE.

mENDERS will be received for ALTEEA. ■*• TIONS and ADDITIONS to the Old Men's Refuge up to SATURDAY NEXT, at 12 "Soon. Flans- and Specifications at Frater Bros. Offices, Grahamstown. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Tenders to.be left at Fbaxjb Bhos.' officeE* W. McCTTraotKjH, 465 ■ President.

NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. WAIEATO-THAMES RAILWAY. 100,000 SLEEPERS. Pub?ic.Works Office, Wellington, 4th April, 187& TT7RITTEN TENDERS will be received at t V this office up to noon on MONDAY, the 19th May, 1879, for the Supply and Delivery of 100,000"8LEEPER8, to be delivered at G-rahamstown, Shortlund, Kirikiri, Puriri, Hikutaia, or Paeroa. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside " Tenders for Sleepers, Waifcato-Thames Railw»y." Specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Auckland, Grahamstown, New Plymouth, Wanganui, We^i Dg'oD > Blenheim, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, Oamaru, Invercargill, Westporb, and Hokitika; at the Railway Stations Palm erst on North, Napier, Ashburton, Timaru, RivertOD, and Grey mouth ; and at the Post Offices at Hamilton (Waikato), and Greytown (Waira- i rapa). Telegraphio tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented at any Telegraph Office by NOON of the tame date, provided that- written tenders in dua form ara lodged at a District or Resident Engineer's Office by the same hour, and accompanied by a cheque on some bank in the town where the tender is lodged ; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as good for one month, and to be in favour of the Receiver-General's Deposit Account only, and not to bearer or order. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By Command. JOHN BLAOKETT, Engineer in Charge, North Island. N.B.—The tenderer shall also'name in his tender an alternative rate for delivery at Auckland Railway Station. 415

General Notices

Sewing Machines. YTO W li S T O GK — The New WHEELER & WILSON, GROVER & BAKER, SHAKESPEARE, ANGENORA, HOWES', HOME SHUTTLE, Arid othtr SEWING MACHINES. Any Machine not in Stock procured «n the Shobtebt Notice. OIBAEIFGOUT— A LOT of PERAMBULATORS, to to Sold at 25 per cent, lees than Cost Price. ITS.—SEWING MACHINES REPAIRED a —All repairs warranted for one month. -rdddress— . . .. . *> H, B. GOOEE, Pollen street, 459 Q-rahametown.

Saddlery Business. EDWAED GIBBS BEGS to inform the Public that he has RE-OPENED those Old Established Premises lately in the occupation of Mr Kennedy, Owen street, Grabartutown, with ft WELL SELECTED STOCK 01? SADDLERY AND HARNESS, And from his practical knowledge of the Trade is in a position to execute all kinds of vrork in connection with it with ECONOMY AND DESPATCH. EDWAED GIBBS, Owen Stbeet, GRAHAMSTOWN. 469 T U S T R E C E I V ED— AUSTRALASIAN, April 12 and 19. J. H. Jketebson, ' ■ Pollen street Shortland. T*7 ANTED KNOWN—Proxy Forms VV for Mining Companies may be obtained at the Stab Office./ ji;