NOTANILIA !

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 96, 15 July 1882, Page 277

NOTANILIA !

The Messrs Hewin Brpthers have just received -afresh, consignment of new season teas of unusually ■good quality, and which my be thoroughly relied on. Our enterprising and genial fellow citizen, Mr A. Linabury, has just received n. large supply of operatic, theatrical, and faner costumes. Amongst those for Indies we notice the Witch, walking costume of -Louis XIV. period, Young Britannia, Vivandiere, •white satin (princess), Tolly, Gipsy, Height of Folly, and Young Republic. The principal costumes for ■gentlemen are — Sir Walter Raleigh, Fisherman of Naples, -Courier of Czar, Clandfc Duval, Bunthorne •{" Patience"). Charles I. Noble, Italian Brigand, Fra Diavolo, Frederick ("Pirates of Penzance"), Venetian Noble (15th Century). Now is the chance for our jamtarts to give a fancy ball. Mv Roberts, who has lately become mine host of the Albert, is getting as popular as he was in ■Nelson, where ho carried on business and earned golden opinions from all who were connected with him both privately and in business. The Albert, under the new regime!, begius to look something like a fashionable hotel, both outside and inside being renovated and improved in a way that will make it second to no hotel in Auckland ; and Mr Roberts not only has an experienced "chef," who_ knows how to manage the •cuisine of a large establishment, but takes care to keep only tlie best of liquors. We wish him every success in his venture. • A "Fable not by iEsop : — Long, long ago in an ancient city there lived an insignificant dealer in drugs, who had a dog, a regular mongrel our, only fit for barking, collecting bones, &c. One day, as this brown and white cur was_ watching; as was his custom, for a victim, he espied a poor man coming along, and instantly the wretched cur sprang out and tore a large piece out of the man's nether garment. Now, this man was a philosopher, and although, of course, much, annoyedi lie did not show his anger, but went away to Mnnro and Milligan's and got measured for a new suit from their latest arrivals of stuff, on the deferred payment system. The reason the poor man did not show anger was because he recollected a certain quotation of Byron/and which is the " moral " : — • And if we do but watch, the hour, There never yet was human power Which, could evade, if, unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of liini who treasures up a wrong." A large crowd were assembled on the Queenstreet Wharf yesterday, and everyone thought some accident had happened to some of the crew of the Nelson, as several sailor 3 were surrounding- one of the men who had both hands to his face, evidently suffering from some acute pain. " What's up, Bill," said one. " Oh, oh, oh !" yelled the man, " I can't speak since I tried to say ' Autipopigikurnptuarie' — that wonderful thing now on view at Bailey and Ken's American Novelty Company, in Queen-streot, nest to Bailey's tobacconist shop. "Oh, it is a wonderful thing." And immediately all the people started off, some of them saying — " Oh, the fellow's been paid to work up an advertisement, but it is. a capital dodge." Messrs Mills and Co. have shown great energy in the establishment of their steam cabinet and turning factory, at the corner of Victoria ana Coburg streets. The establishment is fitted with five turning-lathes, a circular saw, and all the appliances requisite for turning out with the utmost promptitude and skill the most artistic and durable furniture and cabinetwarc, and the work sent out of this factory will compare favourably in respect to finish and beauty of design with imported furniture costing double and treble- the money. Messrs Mills and Co. will shortly extend their premises and make important additions, as soon as the street improvements are completed, and the factory will then be second to none in Auckland. They can already challenge competition for the neatness and stability of their work, and, as a proof of the public appreciation, they find it difficult to keep pace with the orders entrusted to them. They have recently been engaged in completing considerable contracts for the supply of furniture for several new hotel buildings.

Yen. Archdeacon V. Lush, a colonist of upwards of thirty years standing, and a fellow worker with the late Bishop Selwyn, died at his lodgings, Parnell, on Tuesday.