Rough on Chadband and Co.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 114, 24 March 1892, Page 3

Rough on Chadband and Co.

At the Manchester Arts Club, in the course of a recent speech, Mr Irving said :— ' There is a lot of persons who spend a considerable amount of their time in predicting, both in speech and writing, the pains and penalties of our future state. Now. I do nst know that we ought to complain of this, but, so far as I know, I actors are the only members of the artistic fraternity who are singled out for this sort of warning. I think it is high time the painters and musicians had a turn. There are some members of this club, I daresay, who would be all the better for a little friendly prophecy. I have my eye on certain architects who build theatres and places of varieties, and other shocking places. How is it they escape? I don't object, provided that eternal destruction is impartially distributed all round. I see that a great painter, no less a personage than the president of the Royal Academy, has got into the black books of these amiable beings who superintend our morals and thoughtfully provide us with little tropical nooks in the next world. They object to the exhibition on book -stalls of an engraving from some picture of Sir Frederick Leigh ton's. This looks like fair play. When we are all put on the same level of irreclaimable turpitude, then I shall sit at your hospitable board with a really sociable feeling."

Elsewhere Messrs Eoss & Sandford of the Bon Marche, Palmerston N . direct the attention of Cash purchasers of Drapery to the advantages to be secured bj making their selections during the present clearing sale at The Bon Marche*, the goods being, disposed of comprise the whole stock, which is all new and in eood condition. The difference between present prices and ordinary prices is considerable. A very large quantity of stock has already been disposed of, but there still remnins a thoroughly good choice of genuine bargains in Cotton and Stuff Dress pieces and Eemnants, also Calicoes, Sheeting, Shirtings, Flannellettes and Household Drapery, while Mantles, Millinery, Dast Cloaks and Sunshades are being disposed of at absolutely nom~ inal prices so as to effect a complete clearance previous to alterations. — Advt. " A drink for the gods," so said the great Prophet — Mahomet, when taking his cup of coffee under the fis tree. If you would enjoy such, Crease's A I Coffee, Sold only in 1 and 2lb tins. Our first shipments of new goods for the Autumn and Winter season have now come to hand by the latest mail steamer, and we have been busily employi-d in opening them out and preparing them for inspection at Te Aro House, Welling ton. For continuation of Reading Matter sec fourth page.)