INTERESTING ITEMS.
The ninth annual meeting cf the Taranaki Athletic and Caledonian Association will he held at Stratford on Tuesday week.
The cuehre tournament to be held in the West End Schoolroom this (Thursday) evening bids fair to eclipse all previous successes, as arrangements arc most perfect. A bus will leave Wcstown at 7 o'clock to convey passengers to the party. There really is no need to look for evening entertainment outside your own home if you have one of Edison's wonderful talking machines. At " The Talkeries," Devon street cast, the stock of machines, records, and all accessories is the largest on the coast. The machines include all the latest and best makes; the records, and there are hundreds to choose from, are the most delightful possible to procure. Mr Geo. Boulton, the proprietor of " The Talkeries," has made a special study ol this kind of amusement, and will be pleased tj give all information desired. An interesting adyertisement will be found elsewhere.
Messrs Brooking and Black, representing Llie Borough Council, yisited the Central School on Tuesday afternoon, and made all arrangements re lighting up the building and grounds on Thursday and Friday evenings nexl week, as requested by the "deputation from the Central School." Jt is hoped that a local plumber's firm will be induced to make the gymnasium particularly attractive, as the children's part, the decorated boat, Xrnas tree, fish pond, lollie stall, will be located here.
A great spring horse fair ommenml at Messrs Nolan, Tonk- A. Co.'Hawcra liorse bazaar on Wednesday morning. Over 1000 horse s have been catalogued, and this number is considered to be a record for the colony The quality of the horseflesh is reckoned to be much above the average. The fair will continue to-day, i-'riiiay alii Saturday, and oifers a splendid opportunity to all who are in need of horses of any type.
Mr "Walter Bewlcv is now comfortably settled 111 hi-; new otlices next tin National Bank. The premises liavi been renovated throughout, re-papcred. and converted into must suitable otlice.for carrying on his land and estate, sharebrokmg, and agency business. The windows are p tinted blue, with tin full list of his ageuck's and so furlh attractively written. There is a spacious outer or public otlicc, then a lobby, and further back with windows open ing on the railway line a board room and principal's room. r Jhe whole oi the arrangements are most convenient, and tastefully c.trricd out. Everything is now 111 readiness for a bis success at the sale of work to be held tin* afternoon and evening by the »\ omen's Chn.tian Temperance Union in St. Marv's Hal!. All the stalls will be well supplied, and there will be bargains and amusements for old anil young of both sexes, Messrs llaker & Co. have a local monopoly of the Exonian ware now being shown by them. Jt is all the fashion at Home, and will be here when it gets known. The patterns and styles are unique and novel, and the quality of tlie ware first-class. It is quite safe to say that nothing like it has ever been on sale here before, and that it will command a ready sale. The tirin is showing worthy enterprise m introducing thesg fashionable and useful novelties to the district.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81852, 27 September 1906, Page 3
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548INTERESTING ITEMS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81852, 27 September 1906, Page 3
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