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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7805, 25 April 1905, Page 2

k NE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF ' RIDING A RUDGE WHITWORTH Is that we have AGENTS 3 in every town of any importance in .New Zealand. GSR CUSTOMERS CAN RELY on receiving prompt and carclul attention from the following HUDGEWHITWOHTH AGENTS in Taranaki. Cole & Donnelly, Hawera. C A. Wilkinson, Eltham. Clayton Bros., Stratford. W. Hodge, Midhirst. Q. Gudgeon, Ingle wood. |E. REYNOLDS and Co., Ltd., I BICYCLE AND GENERAL I IMPORTERS. Devon Street, NEW PLYMOUTH. Depots : WANGANUI., WELLINGTON. NAPIER. MASTERTON. AUCKLAND. TIMARU. Head Offices : WELLINGTON, ANB CHRISTCHUROH. Clark & Co., ' FUNERAL FURNISHERS AND UNDERTAKERS. ivon Btreet East ... New Plymouth. Charges Moderate. Mr A. H. C. Collins, SURGEON DENTIST, Avery's Buildings, DEVON STREET. Telephone 185. Lady In Attendance. •I. A. MAISEY, Large experience in Birmingham (England), Sydney and Auckland. Bra wings, Specifications, etc., prepared in first-class style for any description of buildings. Office : Egmont Chambers, Egmont Street (Opposite Coffee Palace).

Frank Messenger, ARCHITECT. (Eight years with Oakdcn & Kemp, Melbourne.) Drawings and Specifications prepared Office : DEVON STREET, SYKES' BUILDINGS.

iicr day, of the diary of "William Toddv one of Batman's party of early Victorian adventurers. The diary, which has for 40 years been among the papers of an indifferent relative, throws sonic fresh light on the adventures of the strenuous Tasmania)) who, In 1835, sailed down the Yarra, t 0 where now stan'ds Melbourne, mid made in hist diary the entry : " This will be the place for a village." Todd was ona of the three white men left by the leader at Port I'hilip when he returned to Taa. He signed Batman'a agreement with, the black's whon the boss-advonturer,. aspiring to become the biggest land-grabber on earth, took, in exchange for a few locking glasses, some 600,000 acres. of the best" land in the colony. The pleasant Httle dca) was promptly squashed by the English Government, who awarded the disapponltcd Batman 28,000 acres as a, consolation prize. m>mm-&m