NOTABILIA!

Observer, Volume IV, Issue 84, 22 April 1882, Page 86

NOTABILIA!

On the 19th May next an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the South British Fire and Marine Insurance Company will be held at the office of the said company. Host Stanford, of the Ponsonby Club Hotel, has had some excellent views of his house taken by Mr Josiah Martin, and with a powerful glass the faces of many of the persons depicted about the building can be identified. " George, where do you buy your £3 10s Waltham watches?" "Why, at F. H. 'Lowison's, jeweller, Queen-street, who takes off 33 6d for cash." All in good going 1 order in the window. We notice that our ever genial friend and boniface, Jack Smith, has again resumed active work, and is to be found at the Exchange Hotel, of which popular place he has become proprietor, and we wish him every success. The new shops lately erected by Mr Pearce, corner of the Kyber-pass and Syinonds-streefc, are likely to prove an attraction to the neighbourhood. We notice that Mrs Boyle has opened one of the shops as a fruiterer and greengrocer, and no doubt she will do well. The Direct Supply Store m Queen-street (opposite Close Bros.) is becoming one of the institutions of Auckland, as persons are now aware where to o-o for cheap goods of all kinds— especially, however, for glassware— the articles in this line being unsurpassed for cheapness. Housewives should pay this establishment a visit, and inspect the large stock. They will find the proprietor exceedingly obliging, and ready to show his goods. ' There was a sensation in Dr. Tennant's consulting room the other day. A young butcher came to consult him as to his health. While the medico was feeling hi 3 pulse, preparatory to prescribing for the complaint-, the patient suddenly started back and exclaimed "Wh—wh—what!s.. that? " pointing to some objecfc.on his. coat.. The quick eye of the doctor caused hini to" feel more alarni.thanlhe'ever experienced, in the brenclies'before Setfastapol.'-' He promptly leaped upon .a table, -and -yelled dut/'.Kiiockit.off !■ Itfs a centipede !? '."VVten t^e.venem'oua re,ptile,was taken up wit,h a,; toast- , "ing fork : and~ placed in"*spirits of wine, , it was fouiid. to he, seven inches in length, it 'ds^supposedthat "the centipede had been introduced in firewood.