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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 457, 16 March 1909, Page 7

A cabinet-maker's stock of furniture fittings will be sold by Messrs." W. H. Morrah and Co., at their rooms, to-day at 2.30 p.m. Details are advertised in this issue. Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co. advertise, in' this issue, i particulars of their auction sale of furniture and pianos in their rooms, Brandon Street, at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow. A list of five farm properties is advertised for private sale by Messrs. W. H. Morrah and Co. in this issue. Messrs. Gualter, Dykes and Co. will sell tho contents of an eighteen-roomed house on Wellington Terrace, to-moroiv, at 10.30 a.m. "Unless the full Two-Power standard in Dreadnoughts is maintained by tho Budget of 1909, our present relative supremacy ivj|] finally disappear," says the "Observer." "If our sea-power were Sacrificed by the coming Naval Estimates it would bo sacrificed for ever, and tho King's visit to Berlin would bo the strange prelude to tho downfall of the British Empire." In Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Taft ivas entertained at a "possum banquet." One hundred were consumed. Incidentally this "possum baliquot" marks (says the "Dnily Telegraph's" correspondent) tho passing of tho Teddy Baar, which has been tho greatest American toy during Mr. Roosevelt's regime, in favour' of the "Billy Possum." A large percentage of women arc ill because they are idlo, because they have not learned to see life in any other aspect than a playground, out of which their sole duty is to get as much amusement as possible.— "Woman's Homo Companion."