MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1924, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN* AND N'.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION A WORK OF ART. LONDON. Fob. 9. The olien's Doll's lions*', which the

".Morning I’l'st - ’ describ-ex as. one nl j ;ho most wonder! nl artistic pi'odie Li*> 3j - j iji' i>ur time, " ns displayed ti the pre-si

at Mr l.utyen'.s resideme. The he !*•■' is five feet hish. of Queen Ann ■ desi./ consists of three storeys. The rooms are complete, furnished ami decorated and contain every thine that should embellish n royal rauiwm nf the twentieth century. There is an

enchantin'' library, only 29 inches j hich. completely furnished with hooks, j desk's, chair.-,, and a carpet, and even \ a fountain pen. There are bedrooms. ! and a bathroom wil h a marl lc hath. 1 and everything. including a tooth-; bresh. There, is a noble bni!<|Ucttin-;. | brush. There is a nolle hall, a salon - - hall, a salon with a piano, a nursery, n * kitchen, and wine cellars full of the j choicest wine. Ihe contents v.cie executed by 10HI di.-T i ng'iishcd artists. architect-,. craftsmen ami lnanufae-| turer.x. ! The whole oi tla l names <*l the ur,l, .s alone, with the donors, occupy four ami a-half i;olumns of small type. The “.Morning Post" says the house will bo presented to the Queen, ami hrpreserved, prohahly in the museum after the Exhibition. to show Britishers of the year MOO all we know of domestic comfort iiniHnxnry. fsTKAMKIf TO 15F. SFXK. WFOUNT:TON, F*-h. !>. The t’nieii Steamship toys cargo steamer I’ohertia, having been eondelillied, is to tie towed to sea troui Wetliiigton to-day and scuttled. Ill*' Pntierua which saw* many years’ service as a collier and cargo carrier was withdrawn from commi-'sion about lour years ago and has been laid up in the stream since then. Flic lias now boon cnmpleteK dismantled and will be towed by the tug TVravhiti to sea about eight miles Irom the heads and four miles souili of south-east of (ape Torakiiin and there sunk nut-ide the hundred fat horns limit.