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Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1108, 12 November 1883, Page 2

f'jp Bargains m Ladies and '">- Children's Straw Hats, being a > complete range of travellers '; v, s&mplesbought at agx'ejt Sacri- ; \ "iice' ! w'iirbe offered at a-ityuutl- ' ii)g low prices. Ladies requiring new Hats for the Season should see these good? at once. No two alike, Atd latest styles. Dresses : • ; . . ,*» The cheapest Dress pieces ever offered to the public. Special line at Okl, worth lUd ; splendid a't-acas 9|fl, worth Is. Sef them A.T J . B , HAM ILT-0 N '9:. Corner of Main and George Stre^ti.' . Ty ODOrETTO NFMIN What is it?

Is it a newly found secret of nature P A giant t or dwarf Jpf diminutive stature P Anew motive force, the world to as* tonishP . ;>T . . A. learned dir course, its faults to admonish p The name of a book, full of sense, wit, or mirth:? Or some misshapen creaturo, deformed at its birth P A balm made of drugs botfi costly and rare, To brighten the glow on the cheek of the fair, ~ ...... And cure all the ills to which flesh is heir ? . : Is it living, or deadP Has it being or sex P And, say, how much longer 1 this word will perplex P Time alone can resolve the doubts tbat no* vex, I And all who now wish this puzzle to trace Must continue intently to look on this space.

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I Mr J. B. Hamilton's altered advertisement appeari above the leader m this issue. ;Wf leara that the proprietors of the " Uippotaura'O have disposed of the animal iv for the sum ef iipfe'"' '' One of the winners of the L9OO m the Ada Mantua's oon&ulation is a platelayer on the railway line at Napier. '