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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS STEANGE'S GLOVES SHOW SHAPELY HANDS TO THE BEST ADVANTAGE. /"* LOVES that fit a? they ought to fit emVJf phusise tlie natural beauty of shapely hands, and hist twice as long us misfks. Ours is a comprehensive Glove Department, on-bracinj all cf fashionable aiid favourite makes. Tiiey arc, all made from picked skins, and are superb value;— ITRANGE'S 2a Cd KID GLOVES, in all ' colours, always give satisfaction. '"VPRANGF/S 2s Cd RELIABLE SUEDE ' GLUVE3. all shades, unequalled for fit and appearance. QTRANGE'S 3s lid KID GLOVES in r. •J colours, always in demand. *•' vat's Kid Gloves. We are sole Canterbury agents for fatuous gloves. Cal-i-at'fl 4-dome Kid Gloves, black and all shades, 43 6d, 5s Cd, and (is per pair. QTRANC-E'S SUEDE CLOYES-Always 'J the beat good", in stock, "ilerlier" 53 Cd, "Bonnefoi" C 3 Cd, "Josseiois" Cs 6d per pair (all shades). GTRANGE'3 HARD-WEAK RAIX-PROOF >-> DRIVING GLOVES, in Oak and Tans, a; 5s lid per pair. CITRANGE'S SPECIAL IMITATION* SUEDE GLOVES—IOO Dozen Pairs, in all colom-3, at Is Cd per pair. NOTED EVEEYWHERE. OUR IMPRESSIVE HOSIERY VALUE! QUR HOSIERY DEPARTMENT, like that devoted to Gloves, is extremely popular. A few quotations (special lines): T ADIES' LISLE THREAD HOSE (fast ■y black dye), Is lid, 2s 3d, 2s Cd, 2s lid, T ADIES' LACE LISLE THREAD HOSE, T ADIES' LACE HOSE, WITH EMBHOIJJ DERED FRONTS, Is lid, 2s Cd, 2s lid, 3s Cd, to 4a Cd pair. LADIES' PLAIN BLACK CUTT'OV HOSE, 9id, la, 1b 3d, la 6d, Is lid, 2s Cd per pair. T ADIES' PLAIN BLACK CASHMERE AJ HO9E, U 3d. Is Citl, Is 7Jd, Is HJd, 2a 3d, 2s 6d to 53 Gd pair. LADIES' LACE do. Is Od, 2s 3d, 2a lid, 3s Gd. 4s 6d per pair. A LEADING FEATURE-Boys' and Girls' •"■ School Stockings, specially adapted for liard wear. STRANGE AND COMPANY

COME AND SEE HE "C Y C L O N E, Or Write for Catalogue Iron ar.d Woven "Wire Gates from 14s. CYCLONE FENCE AND GATE CO.. 7 Marton street (opposito Coker's Hotels 8501 P CHRISTCHUBCH. THE STURDY HERCULES. Manufactured by A. W. SMITH, 123 Chanel street. rpHE BEST is none too good tor you. Then 1 ride the STURDY HERCULES, fitted with the latest English Improvements, permally selected by A. W. SMITH whilst in upland. A distinctly highclass machine, and well worthy the roDutation it enjoys. A. V.*. * SMI TH. 76G9 12C CASHED STREET. CAN'T YOU SEE?" "I could not; but after trying them all, I found S. MILES AND SONS, Colombo street, to bo quicker ar.d cheaper than tnem :ili." This is the uu; verdict of many ca-sea of astigmatism, myopia, hypcrrnotrbpia, etc., tested, and lenses to fluil all sights supplied. NEW BOOKS. \;i iuuu.ua-n : ueriascn of the Guard. A!-J-U- kn: The Mottle of the Pasture. Glyn (author of "The Letters of Elizabeth"): Ambrosine. Somerville: An Irish Cousin. Banks: Round Anvil Hock. Hocking: The n emi ter's Power. Guy Boothby: The Twofold Inheritance. And many others. FOUNTAIN BARBER, TII E HALL, High street, Christchttrch. P "APOLLINARI S." "The Queen of Table Yv'aters." UPPLIED under Royal Warrants of Ap-r-J pointnier.t to his Majesty the Xing', and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. KNOWN the wide world over as "The Sailors' Friend," she is in my opinion the best woman in England. Why, wc will try and show. It is something like thirty-five years since a sailor asked a red-coat, "Do you think the lady would write to we?" The latter answered. "ilea, I think she would; I will ask her." Ho did, and Mi«s Weston then wrote her first letter to a sailor. Some week.? after a letter reached a certain "tar" on H Trf.R 0.-nrnriiV ••!« can't be for me," h< brought it. "Kobody ever writes to me; I have not a friend in the whole world." The letter was still held out to him. "Look at it. man, look at it; it must be for you, for it has your name upon it. Take it. and opcm it." lie tailor took the letter and read. "My dear friend." Reading on. he scon discovered it had w™» from hia onldiov'o lady friend. He replied, it had made hit other sailor.;, wist. .. . and would lovo to receive a letter from her. She wrote; these men suggested others, and so the correspondence increased to such an extent it was no longer possible to carry it on with pen u;:d ink. And so the letters were printed. Two hundred copies were printed and sent Year by year the numbers increased, and new upwards of rix hundred thousand letters are annually distributed on Ijoard the ships of Great Britain ar.d America. Sui.ors, stokers, engineers midshipman, in fact, everybody on board receives them gladly. It wo? only natural that those to whom she wrote desired to maka iter personal acquaintance. Again cud egain came requests that she would visit Portsmouth. In time she was able to arrange & visit, and the sailors we-re delighted to see her. She soon saw the urgent need for some home tor her friend?, for within a few yards of the dockyards were a dozen pubiichou3es, the only relu.ao "Jack" had. The men of 11.M.5. Dryad came in a body and begged her to open for them and their con:fades a place of rest. She readily fell in with the suggestion. She rented a house near the dock.-., and furnished it at her owe arpense. It was uot large, it was rot elaborately fitted, but it laid the foundation of what tuo to-day known as the Royal Sailors' Bests, of which England has such good reason to be proud. " Remarkable succe.-s attended the enterprise, no less than 15.C00 men using the "K?-;;" during the firit year. Larger premises wire soon requiied. The work grew and grew; building after building went up. and upwards of £300,000 has been paid to builders of these "Rests." Hundreds of thousands sleep at the "Rest*'' 7ewiy, and over a thousand