INTERESTING ITEMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 216, 5 September 1908, Page 5

INTERESTING ITEMS

The services at Whiteley Memorial Church to-morrow will be conducted bv the Eev. T. G. Brooke, and the subjects will be—Morning, "Our Great High Priest," and evening, "A Magnificent life Wasted." The latter subject will be the monthly address to young men. Visitors cordially invited.—Advt. In our advertising columns will be found particulars of furniture to be Bold by Messrs. L. A. Nolan & Co., on Tuesday next, on account of Mrs. Moody, who is leaving New Plymouth. The Taranaki Education Board invite tenders, to close on 19th inst., for erection Of a teacher's residence at Makahu. The local agent for the Christchurch Meat Company advises that there is a rise in the price of bacon. Fivepence per lb. is offered for pigs 1201bs. to 150 lbs. dead weight. A reminder is given of the sale of Mr. C. Clarke's pedigree and grade Jerseys by Mr. Newton King, at Gorbett Road, on Wednesday, 9th inst. A free brake will leave the mart at 12 o'clock (noon) on the day of the sale. These cattle can be thoroughly .recommended, Mr. Clarke having won 9 first prizes and 2 championships at the principal shows List season. ■ A meeting of the gentlemen's committee of the hospital ball will be held on Monday evening in Messrs. Webster '& McKellar's office. The sale of tickjts is proceeding apace, and already guarantees an exceptional attendance. The completeness with which arrangements are being made justifies the belief that the hospital ball of 1908 will be ' the' ball of the season. The sixty-fourth anniversary of the landing of the Rev. Robert Ward :n New Plymouth, from England, to establish the Primitive. Methodist Chinch in this country, will be commemorated at Queen Street Church on Sunday. • W, Dimock and Co. have decided to Open receiving yards at Waitsra railWay station, comiromchg next month. the New Plymouth High School Board invite applications for posiiioa* on the staff of assistant master and junior mistress respectively.

The "Melbourne'' reports record crowds of shoppers for their special fifteen days' sale of hoots and shoes, which commenced on the 20th August. A special feature of the sale is that all their well-known lines of men's higiigrade glace kid, box calf, and bovine kid halmorals, which were formerly priced at 18s lid, Ms Oil, up to 22s fid, have been reduced to the one sale pric. namely, 10s !M. These lines are selling I

fast.—Advt. I See what cash will do at the A.B.C. J5003 Co.:—Gents' kip shooters, nailed. 7s fld; Gents' Balmorals, wide-fitting, h fid; Scotch grain water-proof knee bootß Kfor the stoekyard). 22s 6d; gents' dancing shoes, 6s 6d; ladies' felt slippers, Is; ehildrens', 7d; goloshes 3s Cd; loot/iolds > 6d; gTm boots, .Us 6dj ladies' glace shoes, 6s 6d. Golf boots to yrder. All parcels carria e paid.—Adrt. There's something about the cut of the "PrestweU" suits that appeals to I fevery well-dressed man. They're th" inearest to tailor-made, in cut, style, ant finish, than any ready-to-wear suits you 'can buy. Prices 45s to 07s Od at "The Kash."—Advt. The expression, "I will eat my hat," is likely to losy favor with those people Who always oiler to perform some wonderful feat in the event of the prv .nounced opinions being proved incur,Tect. Two g-mtlcmen recently had r. .dispute as to the amount of stripping that had to he done after Hie milkim .machine, and one of them nliVrcd ('• "drink all the .-■rippings" left bv lire "Lawrence-Kenncdv-Gillies" machine on a dczen cows. The offer was accepted. ,A teacup was procured, and found am_ple to hold the stripping*, which were as easi'y swallowed as' the bet wa? won. J. B. MacEwan and Co., Ltd., gale agents Egmont sticct, New Ply-