Dividend warrants for half-year just expired are now obtainable by shareholders in the Mosgicl Woollen Factory Company. Nominations for the Hoslyn mayoralty are re ceivable until noon of Tuesday next. Those for the city mayoralty must bB lodged beforo noon of Mon day. The statutory date of election la Wcdne«day, 27th inst. Messrs B. 0. Reynolds and Co. will cell to-morrow, on the premises, lower York place, household fur- A variety entertainment in aid of the funds of the Phoenix Cricket Club will be given in the City Hall on Friday evening. Kaitangata thirteenth annual sports, December 2«. Messrs Held. Maclean, and Co. sell on Tuesday, 19th inst., at Mosgiel,3Qo head four-year-old short horn bullocks. An extraordinary meeting of shareholders In the Nenthora Invincible Quartz Mining Company is called for December 4, for purposes speoilied by advertisement. Messrs Baker Brothers, Wellington and Auckland, sell on November 20, at Wellington, 238 building allotments in-Wellington. We have received some fine specimens of early grown strawberries from the proprietor of the well known Abbotoford estate, Taieri. They are of excel lent flavour, and quite equal to anything that is to be met with at a much later neriod of the season. This estate, we notice, ia in the "market, and will be offered for sale by auction by Messrs Wright, Sfcephenson, and Co., in conjunction with the Farmers' Agency Company, on the Cth December. Such a fine property should meet with a ready sale, and the opportunity of acquiring a home may pro bably be taken advantage of by some Australian capitalist. IS. R. Smith, eharebvoker, A. M. P. Buildings. Telephone 370.—[Ann.]

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