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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1710, 29 March 1913, Page 6

Tho Hon. W. Fraser .'travelled from Dargavillo to Paparoa yesterday (says a Press Association telcgraln) .being entertained and meeting deputations cn route. Last evening Mr. Fraser; was entertained at a banquet at Paparoa. He is to. return to AVellington on Monday, and will leave for Taranaki on the following day in; company with tho .Prime Minister.. Mr. Stanley Unwin, late manager for, the London publishing house of T. Fisher Unwin; was in Dunedin on Thursday. He has visited South Africa, and the majority of tho States of Australia, and, after spending some time ; in'Ncw Zealand, chiefly in' Timaru, will proceed to New South Wales, via the islands of tho Eastern Pacific, and thence will return Home by way of, Java and Japan; Messrs. Ooles' Drapery- Company, Manners Street, draws attention to their advertisements regarding the last day/of their drapery sale, when'/tbey will offer caps, ladies' coats, laces, furs, etc. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, will offer for sale on Friday, April 25, at tho Chamber of Commerce, Swanson Street, Auckland, the second subdivision of tho well-known liaraka' Estate, Runciraan, comprising 2351 acres, and subdivided into 19 improved dairy farms. Further' particulars appear in <jur advertising columns. The Now Zealand Ix>an and Mercantile 'Agency Company, Ltd., Arcklond, announce in this issue that they have been favoured with instructions from tho -owners to sell by public auction 7011 acres of tip-top bush and heavyferu land, within easy distance of Cambridge and Te Awtimutu by good buggy road. Also Block Mb, To Akau, of 791) acre's, of heavy limestone country.'

Jlr. Ernest Leighton announces elsewhero an exceptional opportunity for acquiring a iirst-class island farm, comprising 3500 acres freehold, with GOO acres leasehold of excellent sheep country, Tho farm is said to have great prospective value. A post office, store, and wharf are' within 10 minutes of tho properly. A private message from Clinton states that Dig wash-outs have occurred just below Clinton, and tho luvorcargill oxpress ami all trains iu'o hold up. It is still raining steadily, and tfio water is rising. Tho' discussion on the Darwinian theory had waxed reptty warm, and finally hltlo Hinks turned on tho gonial philosopher. "I.oolc me squarely in tho eye, and tell lite if you really think wo arc descended from the ncjj," lie exiod. "What would be tho useh" asked the genial philosopher. "It isn't your eye, but tho shape of your head that suggests tho idea in yonr case, Binks." Tho King, in response to a petition, has commanded that the Bristol Fine Arts Academy shall henceforth bo known as the TCoyal West of England Academy. Tho late I<ord Wimtorstoko was a generous benefactor of tho academy.