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Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1926, Page 1

“Enough of that barking, Achmedes’ —Ancient Tale.

Beware of contracting coughs or colds at this time. Let Baxter’s Lung Preserver safeguard your own and your family’s health. A dose of “Baxter’s” now and then gives gratifying relief in all cases of influenza, whooping cough and colds. It is rich, warming, penetrative, and tones up the entire system. All chemists and stores. Generous-sized bottle 2s (id ; family size 4s 6d.

PRODUCE PRICES. LONDON, March 24. Gold is quoted at Sis 10'd per ounce. At the tallow sales 1172 casks were offered and 301 sold. Prices were:— Mutton, line 455; medium -10 s; beef, fine 111, medium 39s fid. At to-dav’s wool sales a miscellaneous selection met strong general competition, prices being firm. Of tile New Zealand wool, Cheviot Hills clip sold at 23d to 22,Vd; Taitron 17*1 to laid. SYDNEY, March 24. At the wool sales there was a keen demand, the market ruling firm at the best- point of the week. Satisfactory clearances wore made. Greasy merino sold to 331 d. CTRL’S £2,000.000 DEAL. NEW YORK. .Tan. 20. Little Miss Barbara Hutton, aged 13, startled Wall-street to-day by completing the largest private sale of stock in the history of. New York. She sold to a banking syndicate 50.000 Wool worth shares for £2,000.000. Barbara is a granddaughter of the late Mr F. W. Woolworth. the founder of 3d and Gd retail shops. Her share in her grandfather’s estate is estimated at £10,000,000. The sale was authorised by the surrogate of Suffolk County, where Barbara lives. Tt was necessitated hv the law limiting the time for which trustees may hold common stocks. The bankers who bought her shares immediately placed them with private investors at approximately £4O a share, GIRL’S WAR PAINT. NEW YORK. Jan. 26. Mr Work, the United States Secretary of the Interior, is the official guardian of all Indians on the Osage reservation. Oklahoma, and one of his wards is an Indian girl, aged 17. who lias a cash balance of £B.OOO to her credit, derived from oil royalties. t She has submitted for Air At ork s approval a bill for cosmetics which shows that she is a liberal client ol beautv shops. On war paint, hair puffs.’rouse, hair nets, massages, manicures and creams she spent in six months £74; but Air Work has ruled that she has been overcharged and has reduced the. bills by £li.

House anti Picnic Frocks now less than half price, os lid to 12s Cd at McKay’s sale.—Advt.