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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 93, 26 January 1893, Page 2

Au advertiser wants to purchase a broken sheep dog. Application is to be made to Mr R. Somerville. The following is, says a contemporary, from a boy's essay on total abstinence: — " I abstain from alcoholic drinks because, if I would excel as a cricketer, Grace says, abstain ; a walker, Weston says, abstain ; as an oarsman, Hanlan says, abstain ; as a swimmer, Webb says, abstain as an orator, Bright says, ab« stain ; as a missionary, Livingstone says, abstain ; as a doctor, Clark says, abstain ; as a preacher, Farrar says, abstain. Asylums, prisons and workhouses repeat the cry. abstain. !" We haye beard a long speech with less in it. There is a now sensation in Christchurch, according to a writer in the Taranaki Herald, who says :— " A Mr Worthington has founded a new and peculiar sect here called the Students of Truth. They have just completed a fine edifice, called the Temple of Truth. It is a strange mixture, as far as architecture goes, of a Roman Catholic Chapel, a Masonic Lodge, and a London Music Hall. What Mr Worthiogton's views are I cannot say, but I intend to go and hear him. The young ladies, or some of them, called the Daughters of the King, wear a singular costume that makes them look something like collegiate graduates, but at any rate some of them look very nice indeed." Cobbe and Darragh have a big accumulation of remnants of calicoes, dresses, shirtings, prints, flannelettes' and other materials, all of which they have marked much under ordinary prices being determined to get rid of the lot.— Advt. Augito Mats— the woman's friend* price 2s-iust opened at the New Zealand Clothing Factory. No stirring required for oatmeal, milk, rice, custards, blanc mange, jellies, butters, ketchups, apple sauce, &c. ; in fact, nothing will burn on it. Try. it and be convinced For the Nursery, there is nothing equai to heat the milk and food for the baby. We are requested to state that Messrs Ross and Sandford, of the Boh Marche* Palmerston North, will commence the biggest sale of summor stock ever held by them on Thursday next, the 19th their stock being unusually heavy in all departments. Our readers will please note that their premises will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday next for the purpose ot marking down stock for the sale.— Ajovx.