INTERESTING ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 123, 15 May 1908, Page 2

INTERESTING ITEMS.

To-morrow (Saturday) a great auction sale of bankrupt stock will be held by Jilack Bros, at the Cash Palace, Devon-street. The to be disposed of include cutlery, silver and e.p. ware, opera and field glasses, jewellery, watches, brushware, etc. Sale at 11 o'clock.

l'-ver to the fore with seasonable footwear are Messrs. MeEwen Bros., Devonstreet. For the dancing season the establishment is well stocked with easyiitting, hard-wearing s hoe 6. Call and see them.

The popularity of that rising suburb, Vogeltown, has induced the owners of that well-situated property near -the petroleum bore to place the balance of their sections on the market, and, as will be seeu ov advertisement in another column, they have instructed Mr. New ton King to sell by auction at his mart H ". 'j l( ' 27tli instant, 10 magnificent building sites. Speculators should not hesitate about purchasing, as the terms arc exceptionally easy, and the sections 11111 M, increase in value in a very short time.

Train arrangements for the United Societies' Hospital Demonstration 011 i-imday, 24th instant, are advertised. Jlorey and Son, drapors, have some interesting chat in their space to-day re mail orders.

the A.B.C. Boot Company have a replace in this issue on page 4, giving a tnv of the cash prices for which boots, shoes, and slippers may be procured at this establishment. A feature of the business is the mail order department, all carriage being paid. Jfi. R. Woodhousc, sharebroker, writes that he is a buyer of New Ply- '!"'!! lll "l Oiaborne Gas shares. 1 he animal meeting of the Taranaki Acclimatisation Society will be held at the Borough Council Chambers this evening at 7.30 o'clock. All members, spoitsmen and other persons interested 111 ."acclimatisation affairs are urgently requested to be present.

EXHIBITION OF 'PAINTINGS.

Li? 1 ; -?• Christmas, the well-known <ll tut, both m Australasia and abroad, has 011 view at Hooker's Rooms, Ee- ! inont-street, a line collection of his art Comprising simio lieuutil'ul spots of lake and snow-clad niouiilain { ,j' oa . land, also subjects ~f .Scottish and nV.'r lish land and seascape. He has made a decided success in depicting sunlight especially On snow, as is shnwi. in l.,v'

pictures ot ilii! ."Dnrt Vallev," "Lake • Aoa, and "Sunrise on Drummond ; rv n , IS ,J Vo . rk «>r° U ghout is strong '•, 1,0 <l > b P lh m handling and in color, willimil lipmg '•painty.'- "The Burnin* , f, " Tl ]« Moorlands," ••livening on j Mi- Mm lay. find great favor amongst I I' ll '"any admirers who have visited I I lu. show. Mr. Christmas' reputation as an artist reaches tar and wide, and his | work hangs in most „t the galleric s in AiMi-alia and the Dominion. The Now /•(■aland Coverninent appointed him to paint a series of our beautiful seener--»11' I grazing | all ,| Sj Ulcsl . boin ;, exhibited now in Loudon at the Franco" ISnhsli Inhibition. After spending over

t«" vear g uu this trip aniongsf New Zealand scenery, he will return to Kn<'- | land m J u i v „ ox( Sll , )lis wi|] ]j(; last <>]>]>ortiinity „f seeing his work lor. at any rati', some years. The pictures will lie oil view on Saturday and Honu<i\ tor public inspect ion.