NOTABILIA !

Observer, Volume 4, Issue 97, 22 July 1882, Page 292

NOTABILIA !

Bridges' Art Union will be drawn shortly, asnearly all the tickets are disposed of. Tbis art union is one of the best in the colonies, being conducted in such a manner as to call forth the highest encomiums on all concerned. We would call attention to tho fact of thisbeing the last week of the sale of furniture, &c., at Messrs T. ancl H. Cooke's establishment in Queenstreet ; and in order- to clear out, the goods are beingsold at prices unprecedented. \ " Ada Mantua " has opened another consultation on the Melbourne Cup— ll,ooo members at 10s. Each ticket has eight chances, thus the investor of £1 has sixteen chances.' • As all business with "Ada Mantua" is conducted strictly on the square, those who fancy a little sport need not be afraid to invest. The new season's teas arc arriving rapidly ,, the Auckland Agricultural ancl Mercantile Company having: just received the first instalment of new teas, consisting of chests, half-cbests, and boxes, specially selected by the Company's agent at Foochow, and samples are obtainable at the Company's offlce, Nos. & and 11, Queen-street. Mr John Kirkwood notifies that he has taken over the stock-in-trade of Messrs Cruickshank ancl C 0.,, and commenced business on bis own account aswineand spirit merchant. As Mr Kirkwood is well known and much respected both in his business and private capacity, we wish him the success he so well deserves, and may he never want a friend, or a bottle to give him. Messrs Pollard and Co. have started business as general commission agents, produce and hotel brokers'. The firm are agents for Messrs Buckhurst and Co.'s celebrated Whangaroi ales, and Mr Pollard will look specially after the sale of wines, spirits, beer, &c.; in fact he is the beau ideal of a smart business man, and where the white hat is seen, as Shakespeare says, from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth. The Northern Dining-room and Boardinghouse has been started in Lower Albert-street, hear the Star Hotel, by Mr Thomas Caines, long connected with some of our local trading steamers. This establishment supplies a much-felt want in the neighbourhood, and, as everything is very clean and charges remarkably reasonable, there is every prospect of the proprietor doing a good business. A really bona fide sale of Drapery is announced in consequence of Messrs Cosgrave and Co. giving up business, and their stock being too large for tenders, and it being desirable that a speedy clearance should take place the, goods will be offered at prices toj place them within reach of every one, and as no consideration of cost will be allowed to interfere with the sale, housewives will be able to obtain some rare bargains in firstclass goods. The Nelson has gone, and now the fair ones aredisconsolate. •No more jolly tars to flirt with ; but do' not dispair, the good old ship will come back again.. But it is to be kept a profound secret, for it is feared, that should war be declared 1 the Turks will try and capture Auckland — this is the supposed reason thes- __. elson will return. But fche real reason, and this a still profouder secret, is that the whole of the crew are bound, to come back to get boots and shoes from the Mea'srsGarrett Bros., of Wakefield-street. - That is a fact. . -'■ ;> Can anyone inform nic or any other man what, the banishment of Aristides had to do with the bombard-: ment of Alexandria, and if the fiddle that was played by Nero at the burning, of Eome was purchased frojn Eady's establishment ; also, if the Monk who went begging in Antwerp wore tweed clothes or used pockethandkerchiefs, and if Eobinson Crusoe crossed the Alps in one of the North Sbore ferry-boats, is that any reason Messrs Munro and Milligan, of Hobsou-street,. should not supply the best clothes ou the deferred payment system ? Certainly not. Theu go and get a suit, keep out of debt, and sheer clear of the Insolvent Court"Busy as beavers" was the hurried responsewe received to our inquiry as to the state of business in Goodson's London Arcade this week: We took a look; through the establishment, more especially the' new photographic albums, birthday books and cards, aua. we have seldom seen anything so beautiful, for delicacy a,nd softness of finish, and novel and unique ornamentation. The word beautiful fail . to convey a comprehensive idea of their finish and appearance. The' grand!', secret of the astonishing success of the London. Arcade is that Mr Goodson has learned, the exact requirements of the trade, and his goods are always of the very best description. He is constantly adding novelties of every kind to- the already large stock. There is one man at Mount Albert who is. bound to go ahead ; it is Bound, the baker and confec. tioner. His enterprise is like bread cast, upou the waters— it returns to him after many clays in the shape of extended business and increased profits. Bound is;---risin"-' in the world like his own batches ; he bounds . upwards like a ' ball. Nothing casts a damper on his energies. His language to customers is always, civil and floury; nothing makes him crusty; his . manners are exceedingly 'well bre(a)d. But foi- . him Mount Albert would be a howling .wilder-. lies" of desolation, and its people would languish mmuffmless aud cruuipotless despair. Bound is a sweet" man. He' is beloved by all the youngsters for his deli-- ' cious confectionery. We feel bound to rush into, poetry over Bound, but ; he only ordered a prose ad.,, and the price won't runiti'.^^ , Herbert and Godfrey's' spectacles are recom--mended by the faculty. We also recommend thorn, and our recommendation licks that of the faculty hollow ; , else why should the faculty have to come to us to make-- v themselves known to the world ? No sooner had we nut on a pair of these spectacles than we found a sove .■ rei<*n in the gutter. It bad lain there ever so long unnoticed and'might have remained there till Doomsday but fo/'these wonderful spectacles. We knew a young man who ha 4 such weak -sight that he couldn't see .to kiss his <^brt without taking a. whiskey. .Those spectacles cured him. How's that for eye ? Any man wearihgthese spectacles 'would! be able to see the point of this-, joke.' Thia is no eye-faltifin'flattery. These spectacles '. are ol the purest crys bai, ma.de on a'iiew principle, an(_L designed to improve and strengthen weak or impaired eyesight. Mr T . B. Sill, ot Queen-street, has . a larg!j& and varied stock on hand./ ... ;y; * -. . „. : >V-'" ..--f ■.:• . A ." _ • •- "'■.•--'..« t- .-'--*.iS_'> .'{.&> 7