THROUGH OUR EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 53, 24 June 1914, Page 7

THROUGH OUR EXCHANGES.

A Maori named Aupana Puhara, a veteran of the Maori war, and said to bo 100 years of age, died at Paki Paid. - The Khedive of Egypt is fond of horses,, and has the most costly set of harness in the world. It wgs made in England, cost £2OOO, and is for four horses. The subtle sense of a gentlemen’s clubroom is expressed in CALUMET TOBACCO. The smoke for the cultured man—distinctive and superior. Save the Gift Tickets and secure splendid Free Presents. Write for Catalogue to Calumet, Box 331, W' 1 - lington. 41 At Masterton the gross receipts from votes in connection with a Queen of the Carnival contest amounted to £553 13s Bd. A splendid performance was registered by Master Jack fickner, of Waitnhora, at the sports at Palmerston North last week in connection with aho show. He won the senior championship in events for hoys under 15 in the 100yds, 220yds, and 440yds, also the senior high jump, and was second in the 120yds hurdle race. As he passes, smartly groomed and aristocratic one catches the whiff of his CALUMET TOBACCO—the gentleman’s smoke! Get some to-day. Also write to Calumet. Box ,331, Wellington, for Free Gift Catalogue. 12 At a special meeting of the Borough Council a special order was passed, authorising the raising of a loan of £2OOO for the purpose of erecting about five workers’ dwellings as a start. Hamilton is the first borough in the Dominion to pass such an order. Mr Caddie, Dairy Commissioner, referred at the Dairy Conference in Palmerston to the competition from the manufacture of margarine. He said that when in England he visited a factory where the output was 600 tons a. day, and he could hardly detect the difference between the first grade and butter. Where gentlemen are met together the refined aroma of CALUMET MIXTURE rises pleasantly and soothingly—it is the aristocrat of tobaccos. There’s a Free Gift Scheme as well—write for Gift Catalogue to Calumet, Box 331. Wellington. 44

America knows how to deal with hunger-strikers. A woman who caused a disturbance at a recent unemployed demonstration in New York was lured from her hunger-striking with chocolates. The prison authorities placed in her cell two boxes of bonbons and a bottle of ice-cold milk. When the pangs became severe she nibbled at a bonbon, and on the following day the aroma of beefsteak, toast, and. soup in her cell completed her surrender. Smokers of CALUMET TOBACCO should note that the Free Gift Scheme has been specially extended to -Tune 30th. 1915:’ Get a tin and make a. start +n-day. Also write for Free Gift Catalogue to Calumet, Box 331. Wellington, 43 A novel revenge was taken by Mrs B. A. Cook, of Sacramcmto, California, who was formerly employed as a chambermaid at the Hotel Clayton there, and who recently married a Galveston millionaire. She returned to Sacramento on Thursday, bought an hotel, and dismissed the housekeeper. In doing this she fulfilled a prophecy made last summer. While she was employed at the hotel she was constantly harassed and upbraided by the housekeeper. and one day, after a heated argument, she said: “I’ll buy this hotel some day and fire you.” Last winter she met her husband and married him after a. brief courtship.