The Benevolent Dramatic Club announce in another column that for tlieir performances on Thursday and I'Vi.lay evenings family packets of six tickets may be hadat reduced rates. A public presentation of th-i Royal Humane So- ] cioty'B medal to John Jackson w. 11 bo made at Pert. Chalmers this evening. I Messrs Morris.>n and Mitchell will sell household j furniture, kc, on the premises, Alha.y street, to- ( day. ' Tiie Taieri County Council intend striking a rate. of 3d iv tue poun lon all property within the county. ' Mr tieorgc Joachim and Jlr T' If, Harty announce ' that they arc candidates f.,r the position of auditor , of the National Insuia-ice Company. In connection with the coining season of tlie : Rignold and Adison Company, Mr Liddy has.ipeued a general business office nextto the Orand Hotel. Mr Alexander Cairns announces that he is a can didate lor the representation in tbe City Council of Southward. MrS Moss, who is acting as agent for Mr J. Doyle's combination company, has ur.angcd for tlieir appearance Ibis evening in Mo giel. He proceeds to Milton, Lawrence, Roxburgh, and oilier up-country towns to complete arrangi-inents for the appearance of the company in th?„e places. Cnrniviil Ball.—Kan.'V dresses on hire at 11. W. Coverlid's, hairdres.er," Princea street, next City Hotel.—rAuvr.] Uunedin Naval Bai', Friday, 20th August—J. Brown, hon. sec—[Advt.] "In our candid .pinion it would prove a most ditlicult task to lind a ginger ale manufactured be the bf6t firms in the linglish mineral water trade to surpass that of Thomson and Co., of Dunedin."— Bxtract from "The London Mineral Hater Trade Recorder and Advocate," January 1,1886 —[Advt.] It is not an cavy matter to write on political or 3 social economy when you do not feel in the mood, more so when you must nottakeaglass of wine to 1 malic the sprits flow. This mucli I can wiitc: that I 5 the quality is equal to any in the Col ny, and the price i the cho.il c-1 in tlie world—worse luck for onr *' farmers; tlie smallgoods aro in greatest variety and !. cannot be surpassed, and are of universal quality at tlie different shops. -A. 