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SUMNER ADVERTISEMENTS. STILL LEADING, AS USUAL Smith's White Stores SUMNER SjoaG—l^6 THE SMALL STORK WITH THB BIG REPUTATION H MILLER (If.ta Liddifrd's), corner NAT- • LAND and HUSTON STS., SUMNER, for GROCERIES, FRUIT, and VEGETABLES. Prompt and- .Efficient Service. ORDERS CALLED FOR. Free Motor Delivery in Sumner, Clifton, Monck's Bay, Bcnrliorou!?ii, and Taylor's Uptake (Hili-top). 'PHONE 468 W. M 6523 If on Gain by Our Experience EstablisVd 20 Years Tonr IujrKQKC enrted, railed, shipped, or stored na yon require, Cnrrful handling nnd prompt dolivery Is BBsurud. Our motor nnd horse vans visit town daily. The Sumner ysrd Is well utocked ■with th? following : COAL WOOD TTestport, Gr ft tn. Pelftw- Macrocnrpa main, Blackball, Kai- Pine tanpnta, Coke. r.lnoffam All these at City Prices THOMAS & DALZIEL (Late Glbba Bros.) EUMITEB T9074

Nails and wire arc being used as currency in the Amur province of biueria, according to travellers from the district. The Communist Government printed paper nwney until it had become worth only the paper on which it was printed, and now, to pay its officials, it is handing out the Government which are bartered for food. Nothing is done but by barter, and tho peasants have ceased to bring food to tho towns. The "Government" consists of a committee of five Commiinists and one social revolutionary. Tiie armed forces of the Government do more pillaging than anything else.

For 15 years Mr Frederick Wilkins, of the Tow Tree Inn, Burghill, near Hereford, has had neither a shave nor had his hair cut. After the sweeping Liberal victoiy of 11)06, he made a vow that he would forswear scissois and razor until tho Conservative party was returned to power, md tho coming of the Coalition has condemned him to ejo bearded like a patriarch and coifed like a debutante in pre-bobbed hair days. \ fine-looking man of 6-5. Mr Wilkin9 has been proprietor of his picturesque and quaintlv-naroed rustic inn for 30 years. His "hair is cunningly confined by a side-comb and hairpins. "It is like a Government majority—the longer it stands the thinner it grows," he says.