Events Worth Noting.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6712, 2 June 1900, Page 3

Events Worth Noting.

Church services advertised. Entries advertised for Gorton & Son's Feilding sale. Matthew Henry makes additions to his Palmerston sale. Court Manawatu, A.0.F., meets on Tuesday evening. Orchestr-il Society's concert in Theatre Royal on June 19th. Mr L. Wallis, Fitzherbert, wants a boy for general farm work. Mrs Cunninghame.l^Church street, . wants a good general servant. I Lantern servise at Cuba-stre Wes- [ leyan Church to-morrow night. I Additions made to Abraham and Williams' Pahiatua and Palmerston sales. Tenders are invited by the Pohangina County Council for three road formation coatraots. Miss May McElwain returns thanks to all who assisted to recoup her losses sustained through the recent fire. Mr George Melrose, land agent, advertises for immediate sale 1800 acres of grass land in the Hawke's Bay district. Mrs Andersen, Boundary road, returns her heartiest thanks to all friends wko kindly assisted her in her recent sad bereavement. We would direct the attention ol our readers to advertisement on our front page relating to Webber's " Vitadatio," the wonderful herbal remedy. On Wednesday, June 20th, at their salerooms, Wellington, Messrs George Thomas & Co., will hold an important sale of surplus boilers, engines, pumps, and machinery, by order of the Secretary j Wellington Harbour Board.

Patriotic—Messrs J. Grace and Co. have a string of bunting stretched across the street in front of their business premises to-day, tbo centre-piece being a banner with the inscription, '* Pretoria captured."

Boot and Shoe Businbss.—The boot and shoe business lately carried on by James Grace and Co., has been acquired by R. Hannah and Co., the well-known boot and shoe traders, who will continue to trade in the same premises. R. Hannah and Co., are the largest manufacturers and biggest importers of boots and shoes in New Zealand, and the only firm in the trade in Palmerston North where you can get what you want.— Advt.

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kiHed^l^r-Jalfe are s sold'for the benefit of their^-V^and families. The kits of imrrie^jya^ -yhose. families remain at bome-'HS^been sold a'tnigte Btartling 1 pvicss. An ol_iji'L_*igvValue when new | about Od, f etohejl 1 25s ,*. a pair of lacos, i value Id, fetohe-Ssfis, anttlie reports that the bidding -^s/cmite brisk and exciting, plenty of heart'bemg put into it. Single men's kits are quite unsaleable, no one wantb the things, except the shirts and -aGckSi and bo one will bid, so it ia quite cleat: that these fancy prices are only a means of contributing to the widows in a^ manner which has no appearance of I charity, and deserves, therefore, to be I much more commended.