NAPIER NOTES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2522, 24 July 1915, Page 11

NAPIER NOTES

• The Mayor of Hastings has received £5 13s. towards the General Botha Fund. ■ Mr. A'. E. Renouf, Napier's patriotio auctioneer, has received a telegram from Mr. Whatman, of Masterton, asking him to conduct a patriotic auction there on August 4. Mr. Renouf has consented. A petition in bankruptcy ■ has been filed by Albert Oswald Gray, clerk, of Hastings. The liabilities amount to £50 18s. lOd. The unsecured creditors include the following Wellington firms : — Dimond and Hart, £3 2s. 6d.; Accountancy and Educational Publications, 12s. 6d.

Among the passengers for London by the Tongariro are Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Whiteman, of Wangamii, vrho are going Homo to.offer their services to the War Office. Mr. Whitemaii's brother, Major Whiteman, has been with his regiment in Franco euel' since the war began. Sirs. Whiteman, who hopes to enter one of the hospitals in France or Egypt, received her training in the .Wellington Hospital. A sample copy of "The Patrician;" a canserie of travel, art, fashion, sport,' and social life throughout the world, is to hand, and among its contents are some of the outstanding events of the career "of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, a sketch of Miss Lauretto Taylor, the young actress who has "made good"' to such : a remarkable degree on _ the other side of the world; an entertaining article upon "Things Theatrical," with somo cartoons to illustrate it, and other matter that touches upon the interests of daily, life. A considerable amount of space is devoted to fashions, to which the illustrations are of great assistance, and fiction is also represented by one or two short stories.