Title: The Melbourne Advertiser, Port Phillip
Date: January 22nd 1838.
Accession Number: MS13486
Image Number: pp0024-003-0



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Mr Rucker's list continued
Timber of every discription well
Seasoned from Hobart & Launceston
New Zealand Pine
Nails - Batten - Shingle & Hurdle
Shoe makers - Toe & Heel Sprigs
Leather - Sole - Kip & Kangaroo
Saddlery - Whips and Spurs
Spades & Shovels Locks & Hinges
Gunpowder and Shot Ladies
dress Shoes - Hats
Best London Beaver & Gossamill
White and Black, Manilla Hats
and Caps Bagging Wool Packs
Needles and Twine as well as a
variety of other most useful articles
too numerous for insersion
Queenstrt 29 Decr 37 W. F. A. Rucker
Blacksmith & Farrier
Adjoining Fawkners Hotel
All work of the above Branches
performed quickly and neatly
Horses Shod Cash £ "-7 s-0 d
Do do - Credit - " 9-0
All other work in proportion
First established Hotel in
Melbourne Fawkners Hotel
Supplies to the Traveller and Soujorner
all the usual requisites of a Boarding
House and Hotel of the very best		 being mostly laid in from the
first Mercantile House in Cornwall
V D Land in addition to which there
will be found mental recreation
of a High order. There are provided
7 English & 5 Colonial Weekly News
papers 7 British monthly Magazines
Three quarterly British Reviews up
to July and August 1837. A very
Choice Selection of Books including
Novels - Poetry - Theology - History
Philosophy - Chemistry &c
N.B. A late Encyclopedia. the
use of any of these Works will be
free to the Lodgers at the above
Hotel
T. D. Weatherly takes this
early opportunity to inform his friends
and the Public that he supplies
Families with the best Wheaten
Bread at the lowest possible
price and to those who wish it
he allows one months credit
To let
A substantial Weatherboarded
house 27 feet by 14 divided into two
Rooms below and one upper Room
the whole lenght it is well Floored
Bricknogged and plastered
Enquire of the Proprietor
John P Fawkner

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