INTERESTING ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 304, 19 December 1908, Page 5

INTERESTING ITEMS.

r , v ( < Persons desirous of giving Christmas cheer to patients in the Hospital and inmates of the Old People's Home are requested to communicate with Hiss Brown, Mrs. Farrar, or Mr. 0.-IM. Lepper (secretary of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board). ■ The Taranaki County Council inserts a notice re unpaid, rates. ■Mr. Newton King advertises the goo.i----"will of' lease of a 50-acre farm near Bahotu for sale at his Ilahotu yards on Tuesday aext, on account of Mr. Charles F. J. Smith. This is a good little farm, well situated, held at a low rental, and should readily tint! a purchaser. There was a sound of revelry by night, and Taranaki cajlital had g.itii ered there her beauty and her chivalry. The war-boats lay in. the harbor, peaceful and still, every man at bis .station waiting for—vhut! Why, the return of those who were attending the entertainment in the Recreation Sports Ground on Wednesday evening, 30th instant, where the vast gathering had taken place. A splendid programme has been arranged, including many items jvhieh have never Wen shown outside a theatre before. Everybody invited to come and assist the Seaside Improvement Committee to make New Plymouth, the watering-place of the West Coast by contributing one shilling at the gate. ' The services in Wliiteley Church tomorrow will be conducted by the Rev. T. G. Brooke, and tire subjects for the day will he—Morning, "The Greatest . need of the Christian Church," and evening, "Modern Idolatry." Stranger; cordially invited.—Advt. Ambury Bros.' windows and store are now full of dainty holiday apparel and seasonable furnishings, men's and boys' holiday suits, hats, etc. Customers are invited to inspect same. Style and value right—Advt. Curtain values are telling at White's *his week. The firm have opened a number of lines which have been bought at big discount rates, and this Advantage is being given the public. Several expressions of appreciation of the cheapness of some of the numbers «old, have been overheard, and news of this sort spreads. Another new line at " 13s 6d per' pair was opened yesterday.