BUSINESS NOTICES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 124, 3 September 1910, Page 8

BUSINESS NOTICES.

Children are reminded that the first practice, for the *Fire Brigade ball will ibe held in the Drill Hall at 2.30 this afternoon. A meeting of old pupils of the Central School is to 'be held on Wednesday in the Town Hall to consider means for fittingly celebrating Mr. Dempsey's twentyfive years' connection with the school. Anniversary services will be held in the Queen Street Primitive Methodist Church at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning and 7 o'clock to-morrow evening. The Rev. J. Nixon will preach in the morning, and in the evening will be assisted by the Rev. J. Lewis. The annual tea meeting will be held next Thursday at 5.30, to Ibe followed by a sacred concert. The arrangements for the tennis social and dance to be held in the Brougham Street Hall on Thursday evening, next in aid of the New Plymouth Park Tennis and Croquet Club, are well in hand, and the affair promises to be very successful. Only a limited number of tickets are printed, and members not having any should secure them at once from the secretary or committee. A capital programme of musical items will be given in the intervals between dancing, and the music, floor and supper will be of the best.

The ladies' umbrellas at 4/11 at the Melbourne's great inauguration sale represent the surplus stock of one of England's foremost umbrella makers. The backward season induced him to part with these goods at an extreme sacri-i fice, in the benefits of which, in turn, you are asked to participate. Some of the new French printed cambrics; have arrived at White and Som Besprte the advance in cotton, thest are so well bought that a very nice line, absolutely fast in color, is being shown at sevenpence per yard. The new tones of heliotrope, purple and biscuit shades are very prominent, in addition to the ever popular blues and pinks. Embroideries at the Busy Cash Drapery Store, opposite Carnegie Library, King street, New Plymouth. t.c.