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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 21 February 1907, Page 12

Mr. William O'Brien several years ago married Mademoiselle Raftalovitch, daughter of a celebrated financier, with whom he received an immense dowry. Mr. William Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, is only -32 years of age. It is just eleven years since he first 'brought bis invention before the notice of the British public. Mr. Percy Jones, the popular bandmaster of St. Augustine's (Geelong) Orphanage Band, has declined a second pressing offer from Albury to take up the conductorship of the local band. • Though, the" salary of-fered-is a tempting • one, Mr. 'Jones does not' feel disposed, to leave Geelong yet awhjlle. - '

Messrs. Beck Bros., painters and paperhangers, Upper Walker street, .Dunedin, are prepared to renovate premises on the shortest notice.... Notwithstanding the cabled news regarding a rise in price of tea, the celebrated ' Hondai-Lanka is sold ! at the old rate, whilst the quality, is better, if possible, than ever.... ' The publication v of an advertisement in - a Catholic , paper shows that the, advertiser not only desires the patronage of Catholics, but pays them the compliment of seeking it through the medium of their own religious journal.' So says an esteemed and wide-awake American^ contemporary. A word to the wise is sufficient...;