SOME MOTOR-CAR BARGAINS AT CHRISTCHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1996, 2 March 1914, Page 6

SOME MOTOR-CAR BARGAINS AT CHRISTCHURCH.

Thero comes a timo in the. esperienro of sonic motor cyclists when they find tlib hferf of motor cycles and' side-cars inadequate to the requirements, and they rich for a reliable- small car at u prico within the s'cota'e pf the medium-sised po'ekeibook. SiicK a car we linve at present iu our garage. It is a runabout of the latest tyjisj, especially designed far economy in cost of runm:i|j awl upkeep. It is in-praeticalK-new condition, attractively finished iii French grey, picked out with black. \Y-e \cili. tafte a good motor cycle in pari payment. The price for i?iis 3-esaier tar of G 8 h.p. is .£i2s. An investment that should appeal to the country hotel proprietor or coach proprietor is a 15-28 h.p, Talbot with tivo lJoitj.es. one the usual live-seater touring body., and thi> tftlier X roomy delivery yah bbd.y suitable rotpasteni»«r or R.-Mids delivery service. Now this Talbot, a car of a breed famed tor it« magnificent weaV'ii© QUal-ifies ajtd .tierfeet TWiubilUy, cost in tli« neighbourhood ■<?f jtSOO. Its price today* TO# fuU lohiV fog equipment nM t'Stra body, is .C 325. We have also for rale, on nceoiir.t of rlivnls. who liii Vii bfliishl: new cars, two Unjiiliev ears. The Jfmnbw is a fiisl-r.mlr British ear. i>f which « t-hi:nl{ so higMy i'hat we have secured the awnc.v. A 15h.p. number car, specially selected b.v its oivuer who.ii in f-omlcit, and «{'.iipued w;i'th nil the usmil extras,, selected at the saiiie ijj.ii" is offered at M 25; a .siiufla.r car above «i>r J.1.00i and 1002 Kmnbf-r ."r----sSiter comnkte with _ ivintl-fcfeen ifiiepv„y v|-ce!. hejsil and f-vdc ligUK is offered aV-MT*. Also, n S-seater eeikijio Humher iyocit, with veal leather «S newT" 'convert any.of She above ears Co 2seftfws at cost of a.'*.. Call anil see thee hic.li-aiiisS' to.rs which we. aje offering at ro.-'i-bstwin price?. Adams, kid., MotorCar Garage, Tuam Street, Ghristchurch,'

Yesterday special offertories, iii aid o.{ ; this Melanesia)! JJissig;),, weic received at St, Paul's Pi'o-Cfttlirdra] ftii.fi St. Mark's dliureh, ivitlj. gratifying results, At tho Pro-Oafiiiilr,"l tho svif.l) of £25 was received, a.ntl n very satisfyii'R sum was collected at St. Mark's. A now Amateur Operatic Society lias been forittdH in Christclnuch. and arrangements are being m«W fop a produc-t-tan of "Tiie Geisha, to bo given m tho near future under {lie direction ef Sir. Tom Pollard, The daily supply of a budget of news for pa.ssetiKcrs on steamers iittc;l with wiiote-ss apparatus is part qt a w.henio submitted oy ti'ie JWeicral J?o®tiiisistcj> Uolieral to shipping companies trailing in Australian waters. Air. %v;-niic savs ho is prepared to supply 40U words o'l' ltavs per -day to all passenger steamers within rsaeii of Australian wireless stations a.t a. cost of . between J.XU and £iM. a year to each steamer. This ivould mean a miniature daily newtipoper on each vessel. Mr. Wynne lias or-dorec! a .reduction to Gd. ,i uord ioi ■messages to all ships in Australasian waters, .0)1 Wednesday last., while somo cattle wero being d riven to the' cattlo yarrta through Green Island, (says the"Otago Daily Thiies"?, ojis of them talked »i'« a .doorway, which was standing bpb.ij, and fouiid its Way into Di. Carsconsulting raofn. The driver of the cattle, went tit, awl taking the allium I by the horns, fed it quietly out, no damage beina done. The Tourist Department has received advice from Mannpouri that tho jlararo.a, bridge is completed, ai'd tarn aio now running through to Lake Alanapouri, also that jirivato cars can get through without- trouble, "The iMiiies Department is nothing if not lnunanitanaii, and we have tho death-rate in any mines in the (vol Id, ' declared Sir, I'',, lteodj .inspect ing engineer of mines, at Auckland, vipon tnc occasion of a trial of an apparatus for restuo \Vork in mines. He added thai they did not aim at recovering dead bodies after a mine cxplo-•iioii-~.nl occurrence happily rare ill thS, Dominion—but at bringing the entombed miners otit alive.. He therefore welcomed the. apparatus which was being siiown, as tho roscucri besides wearing one himself, could carry another outlit to the /nan lr6 was trying to rescue from the noxious fumes. Tho establishment of a medical school in Auckland is strongly advocated by Mr. G„ If. Peacockoj vicerchairman of the Auckland University College 'Couth oil Speaking a few days ago, lie 'said: "1 should like to tiU:.6 tni's ,o)»p intimity of expressing, tire' opinion that it is it mist ale (in policy, and opposed to. the interest!) of higher education, to make the several attiliated colleges of the New Zealand University so many watertight compartments for certain subjects of learning. Every;college should lie free to teach any .subject in wliicli there are students asking to be taught. The only question on which f'no t Senato should rSquire to be satisfied is the efficiency of tho teaching. That, being, secured, tho rivalry of tiie different schoois in the various centres Would drt:moi'o good than lianii''. Until a now policy is adopted 1# the Senate the establishment of a medical school .at Auckland College is, I 'am r<fraid> outside .practical politics sor the College Council.' 1 '''" . This New Zealand. Railway Engineers au> not lequned to undergo the annual eight dajs' ramp of the, Tei ritorials, but ai.o holding a series of week-end ramps. At Paekakariki on Saturday some eighty members of the Wellington detachment (rips, 7 and 8 companies! went- into emip timid Captain I'. St. J. Keonan, Man Olii.cer for Hallways.. The camp "as pitched on Friday *bj a squad ot ■eight men, under Qtiartermastor-Ser-geant Slattery, ]? N.Z.A , and Lieutenant Bo fid.' and't h*. offiiftfs. .11l command .ire Captains M'Dondld hnd Afouat, and Lieutenants ilardon,, Queen, and RohM. Staff-Sergeant Bale, H-.E and Quartermaster-Sergeant- Oriel) ton ' aro ate in attendance. The syllabus of work laid down includes .instruction in wemciitary ; . .liiilitary 1 eiitiihse'riiln;,: together with a certain amonht ■ot unll and a considenible amount of, pliysieal drill. The ! u «'.i ™J Wtani to town the first : twill this mnrnirio- '

ii Napier branch of : OS J find, rpleciaph Officers' Association it was resolved: "That, in view '■ if vP. "Wortnnt principle jnvoli-ed in wifcfr tiro Public. S^rvico 1 ■ (./Oiumissibners, tlris branch urges tho oxccutivo to submit .-to the-branches the > ?. ucst, °» whether tho withdrawal of tho . impeachment' should bo submitted to a. postal officers' ballot Tlio members tit tile association. ,o{.tliis fbrahch. iiiiani- 1 mously favour such a couise." In rc- . ferelit® to. this resolution, it may be ex- : IMainM tliAfc-jit a conference of the Post and J olograph Associilticn lield in 'fe ' vonl , the delegates submitted -'a . resolut ion fa the Public .Service Commissionei, \\hich. lie refused, to accept, as lie regarded it as an impeachment. of his nUniiitrstratiiin; litibii- tlie to withdraw tlio resolution. This they declined to do, and the Napier branch is evidently se'okinir a settlement' i« known as the deadlock. "V--J ho.tin eo camps of the Gairi«m Artiln^'o„? ,VIS, T 1 T- 1 V ' J Sl r ° riS Uotcet, and Kelburne '.Niuiiaiiianfi.i) Hcie concluded on Satin da*. No 3 Company, ,'u of C.mtmn Bioun, Mas at j-ort. Dorset: No. 5 Company, in Cliaj'go of Major at 'jy.n;r]lti'ti .ra i.p; and No. 9 Company, in cliaißo of M®J or . A? &. Iluiyie, at Fort Ballanco* -Major D. R Menzies, who was in cWko of, the whole division, stated to a repoitei tiiat at the- tlirco camps tlieie \\a, distinctly iioticcablo an advance in the efficiency .of tho men. On the whole, T 6 canl most satisfactory, lint tlio weather interfered somewhat with 'he programme of work. A heavy southerly spoilt to some extent tic work of those ; [it F.o.ft Dorset hut li'lieii siibot'Tng u-as nupossiblo lessons in gun. drill (cluefM. physical drill, and sicn.nllint; iveiti given, rhc discipline. in- all three cainns was Very Rood. Tho results of the shooting have not yet been prepared.