Five members of the '"Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" Company. which finished its season in Auckland on Saturday week, left at about midnight for a.week-end • spin to Rotorua by motor car, and just caught the Maheno for Sydney on the following .Monday night by a matter of miimU's. The Sydney boat'was delayed Until half-past ten. as site- had a lot of largo and Wirt li's Circus -to take aboard, ■but when t!ie time of departure arrived ■there was no sign- of the week-enders.-Their luggage- was, waiting at the gangway. and Mr, JT. Varrell, the company's energetic •'•advance.'.'- was • getting more than'-anxious. The ship gave the party ten minutes'.."race, and : just as the ofiicer was walking up the gangway to tell the captain that-time- was ,-up,, a- weird-, looking -machijie.iltfti'a, jjii iojhe wharf, and live Tory bedraggled, mud-stained theatricals staggered .up the gangway, their belongings being pushed after them by willing hands. Another two minutes and they would "Tiffve forfeited £4O worth of passage money and upset the arrangements of the company 011 the other side. The car left liotorua at !) a.m. on 'Monday and all went Well, with plenty of time in hand, uitti) the rain began and the clay roads were reached. A bump in a rocky cliff, which carried awojy half the tonneau, did not improve the appearance of the machine, and the occupants were liberally bespattered with mud. The chances of catching the boat, when the rain began to fall at Hamilton, seemed very remote. When the shocking state of the road is considered, the party must consider itself lucky in getting through in time. TIP NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. "When my children, Rita and Robert, had croup I was tip night afer night with them and was quite worn out," write* Mrs. Annie Temple, 11 Albert St., Bruniwick, Vic. "L tried different medicines but they did them no good. Then, on the advice of a friend, I tried Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and it proved a God-send to me, for it gave them instant relief."—Sold by all Chemists and Storekeepers. HEADACHES. Many suffer severely witli headaches, but they, will derive great benefit from a course of Laxo-Tonic Pills. The wellknown laxative and tonic properties of these pills are of wonderful effect in purifying the Wood, and toning up the system. Price, 10t/,d and Is 6d. Ob-, tainable at Bullock and Johnston's^
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 256, 19 March 1913, Page 6
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