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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 7, Issue 349, 25 June 1863, Page 1

To Stand this Season, AT HARRISON AND JONES'S STATION, THE LEA SO WES, RAN GIT IKE I, The Pure Bred Cart Stallion; Mercnles. HERCULES, by Samson, out of an imported Australian Draft Mare. FU is a bright bay, stands Sixteen hands high, and for bone and muscular .development is unequalled in the District. ; Terms £3 10 s. Single .Mares, Good Paddocks free for one month; without 5- responsibility. , Payment to be made in January 1803. Sept. 25, 1862. T, 'Tuffixi P H 0 TOG R A P H E R, Church Street. June 4, 1863. Mr- Wm f , Flnnimore, AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION AGENT. May 7, 1863. notice, THE Undersigned begs to inform the inhabitants of Wanganui and the Country Districts that he has commenced 'General Business.., , on the premises lately occupied by Messrs. Gudgeon and Co , corner of Taupo-quay and Market-place, and has on hand a first-class supply of the following Goods : Sugars—-No. 1 and 2 Pieces, in 50 lb bags Sydney crystals, 56 ~ Melbourne do ,42 „ Mauritius do, mats do brown do, „ Crushed lump, in cask Loaf do Teas —English chests, f, do, | do, boxes ■Sydney chests;and £-chests Green Tea, in boxes Pekoe do do Chocolate, Fry and Sons’, 15; lb boxes Cocoa, do Pearl, 16 lb boxes, gold packets Rice—Patna, cwt. bags; Carolina, in bbl jCandles—Price’s Belmontsptrm’ ! Melbourne, moulds, 60 lb boxes Soap—London and Liverpool, in cwt. boxes, half, and quarter do : Coffee—Java and Manilla Plantation, in 1,2, 3, 4, 7lb tinsj Cheroots, Havannah shaped, 100 and SCO boxes * ! Currants, in barrel, cwt. each j Raisins, muscatel, figs, nuts, &e. I Ginger, bath bricks, jams, wax vestas, oatmeal, starch, blue, mustard, pipes* wrapping paper, hops, treacle, paper hangings, linseed and colza oil, white lead, nails assorted sizes, Sharp’s axes, iron bedsteads, tubs, 1 buckets, carpet' brooms, elothes.pegs,Tacks, axe handles, vinegar, London mixtures, red herrings, Huntley and Palmer’s' biscuits, sardines, fresh herrings, firkins do, blacking in tiiis and jars, looking-glasses, chairs, cruet stands, saddlery,, hosiery, groats, pearl barley', tart, acid, earb. soda, soda crystals, arrowroot, salad oil, pickles, bottle fruits, sauces, split peas, sago, lamp wick, B.'W. soap, deed boxes, earthenware, glassware ; prime Negroliead, Honeydew, Cavendish, and Sheepwash tobacco ; prints ; calicoes, white and grey blankets, tweeds, railway rugs, winceys, Bedford cords, mole trowsers, pilot jackets, .Crimean, Scotch twill, and blue serge shirts., . ■ Wines and Spirits. ■ Brandy, qr-ck, Marteli’s, pale and brown, Hennessy’s Rum, qr-ck and hhd, 12 t 0.30 o.p. Whisky, qr-casks Old tom, do Sherry, do and octaves Port, do In Case. Brandy, Marteli’s ; Geneva, 4-gaII, cases; champagne, pints and quarts, 1 doz cases; ginger wine, sherry and hock, Burnett’s old tom, pale cognac, bottled ale and ; porter. W. FINNIMORE. June 11, 1863. THE TARANAKI LEGEND. At a time when general attention is again turned to the" “ garden of New Zealand,” or as we must now call it “ the New Zealand battle it will, we doubt not, be interesting to our home readers more especially, to know something of the legend which fixes''the period and origin of the principal local names in that district, and the meaning which attaches to them. ' ; . Even among ourselves thei’e is much in!; a name; and with the maqries as with*, any semi-barbarous people this-is especially' ■ the case—for their whole history is tra-j 1 ditional, and their traditions are fixed : and perpetuated chiefly through the < medium of names. All of their local < names are expressive of some incident in , the past, and were handed down through < successive generations as an essential -