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Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 321, 24 July 1883, Page 2

Blow! Blow! Blow!

To. the Editor. * SiB >T fGan ; you inform- „mfi, cjwhether i* is likely that the following advertise* meats are ordered" to appear m New« Zealand tup- counfrypaperfi? it J«% thdy genuine, or are.itheyiiowJrat f&« known as dummies,? 1 1 r Tjbe , following are a few of the advertisements Fill So* to :— "Groodall's Housetiold Specialtiel," Eeeas^England f "{ Wgfet VM&lpaf 1 Billiard (Table r fylakera. London ; " Clarke's " Blood ' ! MirtuVij * (without .the usual V cut " by ifie war) ; r 'f tipomn lioteslan; Trousers;" A< ™ila, 'Moate % Co,' ' ;artf6| " MeWantiWUM Bankfnpjty '««is6t(e »■« ; V=W««t n ArfdJCW' (London) Ice-making pi IMaohinerjp; 4 Ghcsllah 8 Indian Gutet,'* also fwit^out the cut ; " Edmunson (fcCp/'f.^JiO/idpn,^ atmospheric g>)s engines.;, & Go, (London) Safety; _; M itches ; "Penby Horse. Naj^s," (Leeds. England,),; "Keating's Imect : Fojmw* ; d ' Uf lUe Medical Guide " ; " Oppehheimer & Oo," .. Electric Lamps, (alsor without cut) and " Samson't Fencing Wire/fo diitc. -,'fj. "should also like to ask w;heth'er it it usual for " Epps Jc Co '* to order duplicate, copies, of their )CJocoa ad^ertiseraent to appear; .whether" the^ Manawatu Jockey Club desire- stHl to -notify th« fact thai nominations 'for tße' Product E»ce close* on Ist 'May.f^lS&i^fand whether, wthe Native Land Bill has already been discussed in -the House, it is not^ rather latd ,to; notify^ Company ". injtends tp; /maka application to introduce a Bill " ? Is it also usual ta continue to. insert. the annguu^m&nti of tradesmen who have filed, and Who are not now m business ? ; , . o There «rt • host of other instances. I.cottJd^give'jibut I have quoted enouub 'tp^ eaabl^o* to form an opmiom— l §m&<j.. „„. .",' i : ■■■- A BO8INB?8 Mjeir. [We are rather surprised at a bu«me«f man propounding sucli' q'ueriba, , a»' it must be self-evident that an aa : rei"tiMe» ment of " atmospheric gas engines;' 1^ for instance, m a place which has* no gas supply, is an- absurdity, and the other instauoes given,, are al^O extremely* improbable.. JW"e regret that our t cor res» pondent does not suppiy^tSe'n'ime of the paper from which he produces snoh » varied ft»sortment of "duaimies^';' It may be that the journal to .which he alludei has " enlarged " recently for the purpose of printing more dummies, but if it continues m this direction.it should bid fair to emulate the career "pt, the frog m the fable, which', endeavored: to puff itself up to an exalted siae— and burst! It may be added that one. of our contemporaries while publisbing a large assortment of the kind alluded to, is also careful to* give a list of all its gemnne advertisements under the hctd of « Memoranda. 1 V Ed. M. D. T.] -