INTERESTING ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 233, 25 September 1908, Page 3

INTERESTING ITEMS.

Rev. 11. Isitt commences an extend- I ed No-license campaign in New Plymouth next Sunday 'evening. All the newest and most popular shades of tweeds are represented among the spring costumes showing at While and Sous'. The prices range from 35s to 50s each, and for really smartly tailored goods the selection is nut u(|iialled. Special attention has been paid by the buyer to securing sizes ranging' irom those for quite young misses to ample matronly figures. Particulars of a 300-acre farm of. splendid ipas'ture country in the Auckland district are given in our advertisement columns.

The University of New Zealand examinations will commence on Tuesday, Ist December. Full particulars may be found in our advertising columns. Murey and Son advertise a splendid assortment of ladies' white skirts nui» landed ex lonic. "We have our "big gooseberry" season, or the "silly" season with the New Zealand papers just as they have at Home. When news is getting scarce the English papers generally manage to start some wonderful stories about sea-serpents ,>i' big gooseberries, and so it is with the Wellington papers. But there the scare head-line is, "The white shaves oi Tarauaki." We suppose this coming season, will not prove an exception, and heforo very long some most startling yarns will be stalled. We only wish these writers could see the Taiiuialci boys as we saw them in the country a few : weeks ag". Hoys of 12 and 13 equalling, in size any Wellington boys twelve, months their seniors', strong, sturdy and hippy they looked, coming out of, si-hunl most of them well dressed in •■frcslwell" suits. They were a sight well wiirth looking at. Tarauaki need never be afraid with such line youngsters coming along.

Tim "H. 8." DISPLAY. The popular "H. 8." depot, branch of lire Ki'w Zealand Clothing Factory, is now deckvd out in its new spring goods. The windows are re-dressed. J n oue appears a very big collection of the latest shapes and tints in gents.' ties, some of lliciu Ix'iiijr displayed on a revolving *land. ?Ji-»li-,. and other shirts in a line range are also shown. In the opposite window is a well-ar-ranged showing of hats and cxp<. inclusive of all (lie latest and nobbiest in . headwcir. ■Slimmer footwear for the j street :\"il fur outdoor pastimes is a speeiallv with this firm.