NOTABILIA

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 167, 24 November 1883, Page 15

NOTABILIA

ThoW in want of money — and we fear .there are one or two such people even in Auckland-7-will do Well to peruse the announcement in bur advertising coluumfc o£ the London Loan and Discount Company. Those in want of excellent '"understandings " cannot do better than visit Mr Heldsworth's well-known boot and shoe emporium in Victoria-street. Mr Holds: 1 worth has lately' made extensive additiqns and alterar tions to his establishment, arid/having laid in a. 1 large stock of -imported' igoods for summer use, he lsiiva position to cater for the wants -of all sorts of people. An announcement by him will be found in our advertising columns. . ' Mr C. H. Prince, boot, shoe, and upper manufacture*, having taken temporary premises in Upper Symonds-stroet, will removb at the end of the year to Grey-street, to those premises now occupied by Mr G. Foster. Mr Prince, having imported all the latest improvements in machinery, is now in a position to compete with any house in the trade. Customers will bo liberally dealt with, and all orders promptly and faithfully attended to. On, the premises of Messrs Hanchard and Cranwell, the Direct Supply Store, Qucon-streefc, may b£ viewed an assortment of goods second to none in Auckland. The firm have recently opened out ex Zealandia and Laira over. so, crates and cases of goods, comprising Majolica ware, flower-stands, glassware, china, arid numberless other articles both useful and ornamental that it would be impossible to enumerate in this notice. Certainly the selections made by Mr Hanchard in the Home and Continental markets, at a heavy outlay, evince the greatest taste, and. the proprietors of the Direct Supply Store deserve great credit for their enterprise in placing before their numerous customers such an unrivalled display of faucy goods. Mr Joseph Flood, for nine years the popular host of the Duke of Maryborough Hotel, at Russell, has just taken over the building formerly known as the Helen sville Boarding-house. This house Mr Flood has converted into a hotel, and a most excellent hotel it is. Extensive alterations are now being carried out, and i» the course of .a few days will be completed. The additions, costing £1600, and mode by Mr Flood, who. was his own architect and contractor, comprise 33 rooms, giving a total of 43 rooms in all. The Helensville will compare favourably with any city house, fitted as it is with every luxury, including electric bells, two flue bath-rooms, and a couple of billiard rooms furnished with Wright's celebrated tables, imported by Mr Flood, and under the markcrship, if we may use the expression, of Mr John Barry, formerly marker at the Northern Wairoa Hotel. In another column appears the advertisement of Mrs Mary Brown, proprietress of the Flagstaff Hotel, North Shore. This lady must be commended for her praiseworthy efforts to meet the requirements of the ever-increasing tide of travelling tourists, plea-sure-seekers, and summer visitors. The flagstaff Hotel is provided with every modern convenience, and the hostess herself makes a point of personally ascertaining that the visitors receive every attention, and .that in no respect is their comfort neglected. The scene from the hotel balcony on a calm summer evening is unrivalled,. The beautiful panorama of the harbour, dotted here and there with pleasure boats, tlie city itself, and the suburbs of Parnell on the left, aud Pousonby on the right, form the background of n. picture, softened as it is with the rays of the setting sun, not easily forgotten. In addition, the health-giving breeze acts equally as the purest tonic on the frame of the invalid, or the over-taxed system of the hard-working businessman. . ".. Labour Repobt. — R. M. Heighten & Co., New Zealand Registry and Labour Exchange, 177, Queenstreet, Auckland, report for the week :— Owiug to the unsettled weather, there has not been so much business during the past week. Many improvements and outdoor work being delayed, have left many unemployed, so that we are more than, able to meet the demands of employers, and still hare numbers waiting for employment. Engagements daring' the past week: Married couples, £50 to £80; housekeepers, £40 to £80; lady helps, 7s to 9s ; cooks. 12sj to 20s ; needlewomen, 3s to 4s per day ; gardeners, 20s to 255 ; farm hands, 15s to 255; general servants and laundresses, 8s to 15s ; grooms. 20s to 30s j drivers, 20s to -255 : labourers, 7s to 9s per day ; general hands, 15s to ZOs, and found ; grocers, 20s to 40s. and 10s to 30s and found ; hotel bauds, 15s to 255, and found ; man cooks, 25s to 50s ; youths and boys, 53 to a 15s ; burmaids, 20s to 30s ; waitresses, 19s to 12s ; good parlourmaids scarce; farm hands plentiful. Wo would remind employers and unemployed that there is no charge unless engagements are raado. Orders should be posted early, so as to give sufficient time to select the help required. The new advertisement of Mr Robert Hew, whiok appears in another portion of this issue, will doubtless draw the attention of householders and heads of families in general to his well known place of business, corner of Albert and Victoria-streets. It is most emphatically a question of paramount importance in these days of widespread spurious and adulterated articles, both of food and drink, that purchasers should, for their very health's sake and the well beiug of tbeir families, be careful to procure the necessaries of lifo only from those importers of accredited standing. Mr Rew is desirous of impressing upon his customers that, as he imports direct from the Horn* markets, he is enabled to sell at wholesale prices, lv addition to the Home markets, Mr Rew imports largely from the South Island haras, bacon, and flour, and as these goods are of undeniable quality they meet with a ready sale. Before concluding this notice we may briefly allude to the great merit possessed by teas sold at the City Tea Mart. It is universally admitted that the enormously increased demand for Indian teas within the last few years is without parallel in the history of commerce. The great secret lies in their absolute purity. Mr Rew receives consignments direct from the ludian plantations, and, as a skilled blender of twenty years' standing, may justly lay claim to a special knowledge of the best. The many, thousands in Auckland who indulge in the most widely used beverage of the century will do well' in ob tainingr prices at the City Tea Mart.