NOTABILIA.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 225, 3 January 1885, Page 13

NOTABILIA.

_ . — -*- Never set rusbed, never get wired, never get whispered, never stand being kidded to, never get gur-more-yumd, never get copped to rights, ,and never get seammery. We have to acknowledge the receipt of a. copy •of Murray's Auckland Time Table and Diary for .January, 1885. If the publisher will pardon us for the' suggestion, great improvement would be effected by paging the time-table portion to correspond with the table of contents, and by adding the phases of the moon to the diary. With these and a few more trifling additions, this little guide would be as nearly perfect as possible for handy reference. Mr W. H. Webbe, one of our most popular .and talented professors of music, resumes duties .after the Christmas vacation on Monday next, the sth inst. He has a few vacancies for iprivate pupils, which we have no doubt will soon be filled. There are several classes in formation his studio in Queen-street, which are conducted on the principles of those held at the Royal Academy of Music, also a special course of lectures intended for young teachers, particulars of: which are advertised in this issue. A Red Cross curry powder, worthy of notice, is made of the finest Indian curry powder. It is 'unequalled for flavour, purity, and strength : .guaranteed perfectly pure and genuine, and prepared from the original Indian recipe. It •certainly excels anything of that kind I have tasted. It is also-^^c Zealand manufactured. Also, a sauce well vrorthy of notice is New Zealand manufactured. It is used for all kinds of meats, curries, game, or wild fowls, and for every kind of soup requiring zest, a quantity to •suit the palate. This sauce renders it a most valuable addition to salad. I recommend those that are about to purchase some to try our New Zealand manufacture, and encourage local in--dustry. "It is perfectly true, I assure you," said a greyheaded old gentleman to W. 8: the other dav in Queen-street : " It is perfectly true that our mutual firm, W. Gr., is on the point of dissolution," and he shook his head in a melancholy manner as he passed on. His grief seemed to effect W. S., who speaking softly to himself, sa jd — " Poor W. Gr., on the point of death ; I must go and see him before he leaves this for •regions above, and he walked smartly towards Wakelield-street. But imagine his disgust and his delighted surprise to find that the greyheaded •old buffer had been humbugging him — W. Gr. was on the point of dissolution, certainly, but not in the sense W. S. had taken the words. It was merelj a dissolution of partnership, and the well-known and popular firm of Garrett Bros, •were selling off their immense stock at prices bitherto unprecedented in the annals of boot and .-shoes.