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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1091, 1 April 1911, Page 6

Miss Amy Castles and her concert company concluded their Hawke s Bay season on Thursday night, and were passengers yesterday by the Mam Trunk express, on route to Hamilton, • where ; Miss Castles is to sing to-night. Hie company will shortly leave for Sydney, via Auckland. Mr. J. Lomas, superintendent of workers' dwellings will arrive m Christchurch to-day. Up to tho present there aro over 100 applications from Uinstchureh under the new scheme. Attcr tho preliminaries have .been settled, ■ meetings will bo held to go through these applications and select thosewhich comply with tho conditions. It is probablo that before any ircsh land is purchased for dwellings, those sections which havo already been purchased by the Government at Sydenham and Aldington (says "Tho Evening News ) and aro still vacant, will bo utilised. These sections wero secured under tho former Act. After the Christchurch applications have been dealt with, those made- in other parts of Canterbury will bo considered. People passing in Lambton Quay about noon yesterday had their curiosity aroused by noting that the root ut the Economic was occupied by a number of voung ladies, while from every window'in the building innumerable iemalo faces peeped. As tho bystanders began to confer there was a whisper ot , the ■"harem" skirt, and presently a lady emerged from the door ol the Leonoriiic, clad in tho new costume, and in company with two gentlemen walked along the Puav to Barrett's Hotel. She. was followed by an interested crowd of both sexes. Tho dress was of brown Louis velveteen, tin coat httmg closeami tho "skirt" being full to the knees and finished off in tho shape of gaiters. A smart, brown tno.uc and veil, with brown shoes, completed tho regalia. In the evening the young lady wore tho costume in tho hotel. When appetite suggests something Rood, when health dictates something nourishing, when bodily strength demands something sustaining—in short, when you 'are hunsrv vou need Aulsobrook's cream crackers',' is the text of an advertisement in another column of this issue. "We will look back with amusement in the future," said a Labour municipal candidato at tho meeting at hilbirnio last evening, "to the time when wo had onlv one Labour member m the Houso of 'Roprcscntativcs." He contended, in proportion to their numbers, they, should have 73 per cent, of tilt; representatives on "law-making bodies m New Zealand. l'oultrvmon should not fail to obtain a conv 'of the "New Zealand loullry Journal," a sample copy of which may lie had on application to the W J™" land Poultry Journal," Box SSS, Uuistchurch. The Colonial Everyday Recipe Bool; l» the subject of a special advertisement m this issue by Messrs. and Tombs. ■V gentleman's residence is advertised to let by Messrs. A. L. Wilson and Co. m this issue. Messrs. 0- aucl/T. Young, jewellers, Lambton Ouav, have a large assortment of articles for Easter wedding gifts. Cole's Drapery Co. insert a number of scatter advertisements in this issue referring to their removal sale. \ ticket of invitation to tho wedding of Napoleon and Mario Louise sold for XU 14s. at Knight, I'rauk, and luitloya rooms.