Page 5 Advertisements Column 7

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 272, 7 April 1911, Page 5

Buy preference sliarea at once. They are a perfectly safe and very promising investment, and one that may be re* commended with confidence. Send to Walter Bewley, New Plymouth.—Advt. Sixty-three years have now elapsed since the good ship John Wickliffe, with the advance guard of pioneer colonists of Otago on board, under Captain Cargill, cast anchor at Port Chalmers. Three weeks later arrived tho Philip Laing, with '247 Scottish passengers, under the leadership of the Rev. Thomas Burns, In the interval Dunedin has grown from the humblest of beginnings to the fair city which the late Tom Bracken hag immortalised in verse. Who would have thought, in those early days, to have seen the developments' of the present time, huge oversea freight-carriers discharging and taking in their great cargoes, where those small emigrant shins then lay side by side—the only shipping; jn port. All honor to those early colonists who so well and faithfully laid (lie foundations of the progress and sub*' '')- tial advancement seen on all sides today, in and, around the southern capital, where material comforts.now abouud.ta which the brave old pioneers never gave a thought.—Exchange. Gor Influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Oure. Never fails. 1/6,2/8.