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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11646, 14 August 1916, Page 4

The Woodwork class will not be held at the Marton Technical School this evening. A meeting of the committee of the Marton Miniature Rifle Chib will ,be held in the Drill Hall at 8 o’clock to-morrow evening. A cribbage tournament will take place at 8 o’clock this evening between members of the Druids and Foresters’ Lodges. Players are requested to be in attendance at 7.80 p. m. “Big Ben” and “Sleep Meters’’ are reliable alarm clocks and a necessity in every home, and Mr‘R. F. Wood, jeweller,' Martbn, advertises over the ,leader that he has opened a consignment of these clocks, which are reliable and high grade in every detail,.

Messrs Stevens and Urquhart* auctioneers, Marlon, have purchased tbe Feilding Mart business .of A. H, Atkinson and Co, and they will in future conduct the usual Friday’s sale at Feilding. A meeting of the Markin ' District Nurse Commmitte was held in St. Andrew’s Hall oil August 11th. The Nurse reported for the mouth she had attended !3 cases, paid 50 visits and collected fees to the amount of £3 10s 6rt.

The Mnrton Methodist Rally Tea and Public Meeting will ba field tomorrow evening, Tea will commence in the Wesley-Hall at 6 p.m., and will be served until 'after 7 o’clock. The ladies are providing an elaborate repast for which the charge will be Is. At 7.45 the public meeting will be held in the Church, when hymns, .anthems, songs, recitations and brief addresses will bo the order of . the evening. There will be no charge for admission *6 this gathering, but an offering will be received in aid or the Circuit Funds.

A man stumbled into the Wanganui Police Station on Friday and gasped “I’m stabbed, ” and collapsed into a chair. He told a rambling story of how he bad been attacked by a foreigner near the Dublin street bridge. The police found that the man was bleeding profusely from a clean-cut, deep wound, and as he had evidenly lost a good deal of blood, lie was hastily despatched to the District Hospital. On Saturday morning Chief Detective Siddells visited the hospital, and the victim gave a more detailed and sensational account 'of his adventure. It whs a nurse who' solved the mystery. On probing the man’s wound she extracted a fairly large piece of glass. The man had been unfortunate. He had sat down on a broken bottle!

Messrs Lloyd’s, Ltd , are now offering exceptional value in ladies and men’s underwear,. The whole of their stock in colonial and imported garments is reduced from twenty to thirty per cent, below the present market value. During the few remaining days of their great sale further reductions will bo made in nil departments.*