THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 13, 21 May 1913, Page 8

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Auckland’s “sun-bathing by-law,” preventing bathers from loitering in bathing costume on the city beaches, or remaining in such costume out of the water longer than necessary to pass between the dressing-rooms and the water, was passed by the City Council on Friday night after some critical argument.

MILD DERBY satisfies the exacting smoker for it, is not too heavy nor too light. Fragrant, cool and satisfying. Try a plug or a tin. y

A not unlikely feature of the reception of Sir Walter Buchanan, on his arrival in the Wairarapa (says the Greytown “Standard”), will be an escort of fifty motor cars, meeting him at Featherston, thence conveying him to Martinborough, Grey town, and Carterton, at each of whicli places he could address the people for five or ten minutes.

There’s a power of consolation in a pipe of fragrant MILD DERID PLUG or CUT. Cool, satisfying and soothing, it is the best of all tobaccos. Try it. r

The .“Lancet” asserts that asparagus is useless as an article of food. According to this well-known authority, the vegetable that is so highly esteemed by many people does not possess any nutritive qualities, and anybody attempting to subsist upon it would starve.

You will value tlie old briar as never before if you fill it once with MILD DERBY PLUG or CUT. It has that rich “nutty” flavour so much appreciated by pipe smokers. x

Sixty persons have applied to the Christchurch Coal and Blanket Committee for help during the coming winter (says the Lyttelton Times). I’liis is a large number for the month of May, and it shows that the committee will be somewhat hard pushed to deal with the demands that will bo made upon it when the cold weather sets in. This year the committee finds it will have to pay more for both coal and blankets than it paid previously.

The man who likes medium strength tobacco should try a pipe or two of MILD DERBY. It’s, tip top. In tins or plug. There’s nothing to equal it. x

Mr H. E. White, who designed and built His Majesty ! s Theatre, Wellingtons, and who has altered • several of that firm’s theatres, has been engaged by Mr Hugh D. MTntosh, who the Rickard’s theatres in Australia, to undertake the work of Jesigning and supervising the construction of two theatres in Australia, one in Melbourne and one in Brisbane. The one in the latter city will involve an expenditure of £65,000, and the one in Melbourne £45,000.

A young lady at Wanganui writes: -“A - bout a week ago I had a very bad cold, so I thought I would give Funking’s Linseed Emulsion a. trial. { am very pleased to say after the Irsfc dose I had great relief, and after taking a small bottle the cold complexly left me. I can thoroughly recomnend it.” Tonking’s Linseed Emnldon, at chemists and Stores, Is 6d, 2s 6d, 4s 6d. ' x

Those persons who hold stocks of stamps of certain dies, the use of ■vhich has been discontinud by the Government, will be interested in a lotification which appears in a recent Gazette. In this announcement the Minister for Stamp Duties (the Hon. /V. L. Herdman) gives notice that stamps, envelopes, and post cards bearing the portrait of her late Majesty 'Queen Victoria, the Christchurch Exhibition stamps, and land and deed ”ee stamps cannot be lawfully used for the payment of any postage revenue duty after December 3.1, 1913. The stamps can, however, lie exchanged for new ones by application it any post office before the end of 1914. I

The origin of the rule for pedesrians to keep to the right dates back to a period when such things as roads \ere yet unknown. Before the road as we know ir existed progress from place to place was accomplished hy means of tracks or paths, used in common by mounted or foot wayfarers. As in early days every traveller carried his life in his hands, and saw in every approaching stranger a potential enemy, so the unarmed man cither retreated from the path or was beaten from it by an advancing stranger if the latter were armed, says the Autocar. When two armed men met, with shield on left arm and sword in right hand, they of necessity passed mcli other on the right, so as to bring shield to shield, thus completely sheltered, but with the sword arm ready fo strike if needed.

“We hear a tremendous lot of motherhood, and training for motherhood, and the things girls ought to do and have not done,” remarked Lady Stout at a women's meeting in Wellington. “Since I have returned to New Zealand I have not met one girl who would pot he a splendid mother. The New Zealand girls are most splendid; they can turn their hand to anything. They work and play and look after their health a great deal better than the old type of woman did. We never hear anything about fatherhood, or training men to he fathers. There is a society in England which is printing hooks about the responsibility of fatherhood. Fatherhood is what we have to take up now; it is about time.” Our Third Annual Stock Reduction, Shelf-emptying Sale is still running strong. Reduction on everything. ha’h ' L, .Tames. Broadway. For chronic chest complaints, Woods Great Peppermint Cure, la 6d, 2s tkl.