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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 182, 19 May 1903, Page 4

"lama total abstainer, but I am not a said his Honor Mr Justice Conolly at the Gisborne Supreme Court. The New York correspondent to the London "Grocer," writing a month ago of the condition of American trade, says : —There are no indications of a subsidence of the .vave of prosperity that commenced to 101 l over this country five years ago, The grocery trade never was face to face with more favourable conditions for making money. And the progressive, up-to-date, mind- , their-own business retailers have mad?,,. and are making money. They are not worrying about laws to enable them to collect debts, nor for shorter hours, or for pure food, but are simply carrying out s >und business-principles, working hard, and getting on iii the world. The tiniest congregation in the world meets at Woodstown, a village just out side Philadelphia. The friends are a fast disappearing sect in New Jersey, and at this particular meeting house one woman sits alone. She attends every Sunday when the bells of the different churches are ringing, and passes up the narrow grass grown path that leads to the portal of the. little structure. Then she opens the door and passes slowly up the bare, uncarpeted aisle to the cushioned seat that has been hers for fifty years. An hour I passes slowly, and still she sits w-ith i bowed head and folded hands alone with her religion ahd her God. Sometimes, full of the thoughts that will not stay unuttered, she rises in her place and talks to the echoing, empty benches. More often she sits quietly in her place, and when an hour had passed she rises, and "dismisses the meeting" by going out and locking the door with the big brass key which hangs in her room during the week. .Mr CA. Briggs, for many years connected with the well known firm of E. W. Mills and Co., Ltd., Wellington, and who has just been elected a director of that company, is a notable example of the rapid preferment that may fall to a young man who shows capacity and application to business. Entering the service of the company as a junior-, Mr Briggs gained promotion step hy step until now he is geneial manager and director, possessing, the full confidence of the shareholders and of the board of directors. He is to be warmly congratulated upon th* position to which he has attained.

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