THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 13 May 1913, Page 8

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

For a Shakespeare first folio £970 was given at Sotheby’cs, and £2-10 tor a first edition of Milton’s “Lycidas. ’ Usually you smile when you are in a good humour. Smoke Westminster KEG ENT CIGARETTE and keep smiling. Fragrant and pure, they are the best for tho inhaler. Forty Free Gifts. X j A Bill for compulsory old age and sickness insurance for workmen has been adopted by the Dutch Second Chamber. Tho high price of £66 was realised recently for the 4d vermilion Cape of j Good Hope stamp, 1861, rare owing to j error of color.

Westminster REGENT CIGARETTES arc fragrant, cool and the ideal smoke for the inhaler. Try them and share in the Great Free Gift Scheme. Forty beautiful presents to! choose from. x

At an Andover meeting of flic Bible Society last month a first copy of the authorised version, dated 1611, was used for reading.

The Wakatipu Mail (Quecnstown)has just celebrated its jubilee by publishing, on Tuesday last an extended issue of 10 pages. The first number of the journal was issued on May 2, 1863.

Ladies, be sure your men friends smoke Westminster Co.’s REGEN'J CIGARETTES. Thus they will be able to secure splendid free gifts for you. Write for Free Gift Catalogue to Regent, Box 331, Wellington. x

The Government is offering for settlement in the North Island at present an aggregate area of 241,000 acres of land. An area of 100,000 acres will be available for settlement before the end of June.

A novel arrangement wil lie used in connection .with tlie trotting race which will lie one of the features of the sports meeting held in Christchurch during the visit of the New Zealand. The handicaps will not be known to the drivers until they arc at the post, and no official time will ho taken of the race.

Westminster Co.’s REGENT CIGARETTES are made from the finest Virginian tobacco. Inhalers prefer them. Smoke them and share in the Great Free Gift Scheme. Forty beautiful presents to choose from. x

There is on board the steamer Wyreema trading on the Australian coast, a small iron cannon, which is said to be one of those thrown overboard from Captain Cook’s vessel the Endeavour when she struck on,a .coral reef near Cooktown. The cannon was found by some fishermen in 10ft of water near the spot where the Endeavour is said to have met with her mishap.

Discussing the question of stray stock on roods at tiro meeting of tiio Levels County Council (says the Timer u Herald),’Mr John Wit hell mentioned that at Wtliroa (Hawke’s Bay) licenses were issued to people to graze stock on the public roads. Each licensee was given a number and a c ollar, and the latter was worn by the animal which was licensed to graze.

There were 1,131 cremations in (i re a t Britain last year, an increase ef ill over the previous year.

A Levin mother writes: —“I have nine children, and I have used Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion for years, and had no other remedy so good.” Eight jour cold with Honking’s Linseed Emulsion. You will win through, - and ho astonished how easily you can destroy that cough. From chemists and stores—ls 6d, 2s Gd, 4s Gd. x

The many friends and acquaintances of “Harry” Jackson, the well-known and popular rider and trainer, will regret to hear of his death. Jackson was always quiet and unassuming e ven at the times when he had achieved some signal of success in the saddle. He was at one time trainer for the late Hon. H. Mossman, and later became 'identified with Mr S. Solomon’s horses when the latter gentleman raced a small team. The most notable horse Jackson had under his care was Blazer, one of the best sprinters that ever carried silk in this country. Many will no doubt rcmdmher the highly-sensational battle between Blazer and Royal Artillery in the Electric Plate at Riccarton in 1901. Hewitt, was upon Royal Artillery and Jackson had the ride on Blazer. The two ran the course

stride for stride, and in a great lighting finish Blazer scored by half a head in 47 3-ssec. A section of Riccarton wont half crazy as the horses returned to the scales, and raised the greatest huhub that has over been heard in the course. They kept it going for nearly half an hour, and the noise they made seemed to charge the atmosphere with electricity for the rest of the afternoon. Jackson received a lot of congratulations for outstriding Hewitt on that occasion, although, truth to tell, it was practically a dead heat; hut honours were in favour of the former, because he was not regarded as such a good horseman as his opponent. He, however, rose to the. occasion, and in catching the. judge’s eye in that memorable nice recorded the greatest triumph of Ids career. On leaving the South Island, H. Jackson took up the - position as private trainer to Air F. 0. Moore, of Wanganui, and subsequently S et up as a public trainer. 111-health, however, cut short his career, and the grim scythe-hearer has gathered him in, whilst yet quite a young man.