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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4361, 16 January 1909, Page 1

News Items

The Auckland Harbour Board’s \ transactions for tbe year shows Agfl that the net revenue, was £101,596, an increase of £7878 Three valuable Clydesdale horses, consigned to the New Zealand Government, arrived in H| Wellington by the Cornwall B|||| from Scotland. -The animals : JmKm will be unshipped at Dunedin, Hj|l Mr Charles Clutch, Inspector of Permanent Ways at Hawera, on the Wanganui section, is re= tiring after 32 years’ service, flH| He will be presented with a handsome illuminated address HBg and a purse of sovereigns. BB| A party of Russian gentlemen wBM are at present staying in WeD‘d'HH lington. The objeot of thfc Hg|| visitors is to investigate New Zealand’s land for settlements Ri| schemes. They have recently JHH been in Manila, and intend ■jjjj visiting Australia in the in* Hljg terests of a party of 900 families fl. -"| representing 2000 persons with BSB a capital of between £50,000 -HH and £60,000 which they desire to invest in land settlement in H| these colonies. They have bad an interview with the Under- :Bn Secretary for Lands. The M—names of the leaders of the H party are Vladimir Pisaenke HI and W. Sleiffner. |j|j|g Questioned as to his opinion of lawn tennis in New Zealand) Mr A. Wilding said to a man : “ From what 1 have seen, M I should say that lawn tennis this country would be materfc; c j|MH ally improved if matches; were more frequently arranged I,tween the provinces. material is. good, and the minion players have got strokes, but they lack the ac- HI curacy which more match play;k.i|i|i would probably bring about* ;|B| Prince Bulow, the imperial MSI chancellor, the other day told ... 400 members of the International Press Oongfess which 1 Berlin, y that 5 the spirit of self?J^B Paris, when (he late M, <le Blowitz him OOOOdol^a Bulow then was, had askedijlM!. BB Blowitz press was an observjttionjby: # . mark would require

•- - - vvmr ' ' Xmas and-New Year—A AWflfal j silver mounted brush atid .Cptub, ! Grafaagaus Economic.- Advt, ' iRBlm - WeHiare some .oi our imported seed left, aiso manure, at right Wigg & Go, Advt. JHSHH ‘ If you want a beverage with the pnj,e * I • flavour of ripe .raspberries, then get a I shilling bottle of Shin-land’* Easphurry j Fruit Extract. This is something new, surpasses iu richness and purity of j the many Haspberry Syrups on the mar' ! A few drops to a small tumbler of | sweetened to taste, is a delirious beverage ! It is just the sort of thiug you wa.pt in youtHHHnB basket when pienieing. A«k yoiir gmeer a buttle. Other flavouro - JLeuiou and ■■ | apple. — Advt. It is said that to be fl • or ■. equipped is half the battle, this , the farmer who invests in » , English rake and Jolmson, Agent.—Advt. I 1 i yr,i r complaint is i , i-r ’ bear your ||, . . but. if they can ; . no-ntly cured why lllmumausm, .^^l I I ..■ .i 1 --all t'm - 1 mauv ailments '.*"'■ ’• ‘VI j( ■ rh r Inin's Pair^B/.'c^Ay ■Bfe'ost wearying® "*. “."3 only ct*M ;y-- '-oi, 4 A "*' '•? >/,