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Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1927, Page 4

TOBACCONISTS’ CLOSINO HOURS. Smokers are always n good deal perturbed when there is likely to be anv restriction of tobacconists’ business.? hours. Week-ends and holidays frequently iind smokers in quandary, but now that they can buy the highest grade Virginia tobacco at 8d an ounce, the obvious course is to lay in a good stock, .‘i ounces for 2s. Rears Cut Ring and Rears Smoking Tobacco (Mild) never fail to give the most satisfying smoke anyone could wish for. All tobacconists sell “Rears” at 8d per ounce.

HOUSEMAID MART!IKS MILLIONAIRE. NEW YORK. Jan. 1. A comely housemaid, Anna Mary Shiels. after dusting the furniture for 14 years in the- pafatial country homo of A! r Frank V.'. Savin. an aged millionaire, yesterday doffed her uniform. donned her wedding gown, and was married to her master. Mr Savin is 70 and is the second oldest member of the New York Stock Exchange. The story told by his 40-ye'nrs-old bride is that he rang for her three days ago. and when she appeared in his study, he suddenly snid:“‘l am old and need companionship. Will you marry me? You will then have only nte to look after instead of dusting." BREATHLESS ANSWER. She answered somewhat breathlessly that she would he very glad to do so. and yesterday she moved out of the servants' quarters and became mistress of Winchester flail, with its many servants, its art treasures, its broad acres, 'and its seven motor cars. The knot was tied by the Rev. Stanley Bclbourne, in the presence of all the servants, to whom Mrs Savin afterwards announced that she would never treat, them other than as equals. Earlier in his life Mr Sirin achieved much notoriety because matrimonially, he suffered a double shipwreck. The newspapers describe him as preferring blondes. He has adopted two ‘‘children,’’ one of whom, Mr Charles Edy Monroe. oO years old and white-haired, gave the ( reporters an lamusing account of the wedding of “my new mother.” < Mrs Savin’s comment on her promotion is “It seems like a dream ”