DISTRESS RELIEF FUND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2274, 7 October 1914, Page 6

DISTRESS RELIEF FUND

POOR OF BRITAIN, IRELAND, AND BELGIUM. The Wellington Committee of the ' . Poor of Great Britain and Ireland and Belgium Distress Relief Fund acknowledges receipt of the following:— £ s. d. Previously acknowledged ... 505 10 4 Blundell Bros., Ltd. ("Evening Post") 50 0 0 Anonymous ••••• 1 0 0 Patriotic Committeoof Cheltenham (per Mrs. J. P. Luke) 23 0' 0 I '* ■ £579 10 4 CANTERBURY CHURCH COLLECTIONS. ■ (By T«leeraph—Prw; ASsoolatlon.) Christchurch, October 6. Collections were taken up on, Sun», day last in all tho churches of Cantep bury, in aid of the- Poor of Britain and Belgium Fund. The total amount collected in tho non-Epis. . copal Churches was '£843 16s. 9d. To this amount the Presbyterian Churches contributed- £414; Methodists, £195; Baptist*, £158; Congregational, £471 Church of Christ, £15;" intercessory services, £11.

"Examine your change, especially your florins," was the advice of Scotland Yard to everyone. A well-known. Scotland Yard detective recently informed a "Standard" representative that in some unknown place in the metropolis there is installed tho most perfect outfit for making florins yofc known. The fattest and heaviest man in the world lives at Round Oak, Brierlcy Hill, Staffordshire. He is George Loyatt, and weighs 34 6tone. He is Cft. in height and is forty-five years old. Lovatt is a cripple 'as the result of an accident. At election times ho is usually taken to the poll on a- cart. For protection against smallpox, diphtheria, and other infections, put thiro drops of SANDER'S EUCALYPTI EXTRACT on loaf sugar, and allow.it to dissolve in month. Sander's Extract 19 effectivo, pleasant.*