Page 5 Advertisements Column 2

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1898, Page 5

An old beggar woman asked a lady ' the other day for a halfpenny. 'I've nothing for yon,' said the lady; 'but if you go to the soup kitchen yon will get a pint of excellent soup.' 'Soup is it ye mane?' bawled the indignant mendicant; 'do you call that stuff soup? Sure and I'll just tell you how they make it. They get a quart of water, and then boil it down to a pint, to make it strong".' "The testimonial to Miss Ethel M. T. Baker, promoted by admirers and sympathisers, alter the trial of the skin-graft-ing case will be presented in the V.M.C.A. rooms at 4 o'clock to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon. Ladies' ribbed cashmere hose, 5-kl pair, worth Is 3d at Court Bros.' gigantic sale, Queen-street and Karangahape Kd.—(Ad.) J Table damasks, Bfd, lOgd, Is Id, Is 3d per yard; table napkins, Is Sdperdozeu; tray cloths, 6d ; S.B. covers, 9£d. At Smith and Caughey's Great Semi-Annual Stocktaking Fair.—(Advt.) At Smith and Caughey's semi-annual Fair—Art muslins, Id, lid (Is lid dozen), 3Jd, double width, 4Jd, cretonne, 3d, double width cretonne, BJd, lace curtains, Is pairs.—(Advt.) Blankets ! Blankets ! Blankets at Smith and Caughey's great winter fair. Every pair reduced. Single bed, 4s 6d; # bed, 10s 9d; double bed, 15s lid; silkette rugs, 2s Gd each; bush rugs, 2s 9d, 3s 6d, 4s 6d each.—(Advt.) ; At Smith and Caughey's great semiannual stock-taking fair ticking, 2J)d ; fox fur, 3£d; toilet covers, Gel, 7s<f; 9sd; white sheetings, .54 inch, Ski; "64 inch, 9&d; 70 inch,. 10£ d; 80 inch, Is l£d ; coloured table covers, 10& d. — (Advt.)