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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4037, 6 December 1881, Page 2

A. OooKSON, jeweller, having removed to more convenient premises, No. 14, Brown street, next door to Mr Burra, stationer, begs to state that he is still prepared to execute all orders entrusted to him in his- usual workmanlike style, and takes this opportunity of most respectfully thanking his friends'and patrons for their liberal support since commencing business, and hopes to still merit that support by strict attention to business, combined with superior and practical workmanship.—A. Cookson, jeweller, Uo. 14, Brown street.—[ADVT.jj

LADVKBTiSEMENT.j ME SHEEHAN^PATETERE. (To the Editor of the Evening Star.) SII{,,— When the Ministry of which . John Sheehan was a part was thrown out of office, and with it the Bill .making the Government the sole purchasers of native lands, and the salary of fifteen hundred pounds attached to the Native office also went by the board, what could Mr Sheehan do but look about for some other means of existence, and as there were no honorable and honest means of earning a living to be found of a sufficient remunerative character to meet his increasing and luxurious wants, he had no other alternative but accept the ! first opening of whatever questionable nature it might be. Under these circumstances it was quite excusable to go diametrically opposite to his own bill and seek the office of Native Land Agent (a position for which he, was eminently fitted by bis dual capacity as member of the House and ex-Native Minister) to the Fatetere speculators - the same people a little while before he boasted he would " yet euchre," b,ut instead he himself waa euchred. - I have no fault to find with all this —it is business like—but I decidedly object to his using his position as our representative to the furthering of his own private ends, and that of the laud sharks to the