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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 98, 26 April 1916, Page 8

1 Miss Alice M'Keon, the pianiste with, the Purple Courtiers, a band of Wellington amateurs, was very unfortunate on the visit of the company to Feilding. On Saturday evening, she fainted, and on Monday nigh* she tripped when walking off the stage at the close of the concert and broke her collar-bone. ' An "anti-shouting" league has been formed in Hokitika. Members whoinfringe any of the rules governing the league are to be fined £1, which will be handed to the local Patriotic Fund. The league was formed as a counter move to the decision of the Westland Licensed Victuallers' Association, the members of which have published a revised price list. The league's membership is reported to bo already in the' vicinity of forty. As Mr. Andrew Fisher, the new Australian High Commissioner,: said upon landing in England : "If I had stayed in Scotland I should have been able to heckle my member on questions of Imperial policy. and to' vote for or against him on that ground. I went to Australia. I have been Prime Minister. But all the time I have had no say whatever about Imperial policy—no say whatever. Now, that can't go on. There must be some change." Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. will hold a sale o£ a dwellinghouse in Mel-bourne-road, Island Bay, on Wednesday, 3rd May, at 2.30 p.m. Mr. S. George Nathan will'sell by auction on Friday, at 2.30 p.m., in the Chamber of Commerce, two shops, sixroomod dwelling, small brick factory, and five four-roomed cottages, at the corner of Sages-lane and Tory-3treet. On Wednesday, 3rd May, at 10.30 a.m., the firm will sell iron shed and a contractor's plant. On the fame evening will be offered 33 sections in the • Bourko Estate. Kilbirnie, with frontages to Rodrigo-roaa and Duncan-terrace, and on the following afternoon the firm will offer three sections, with frontages to Coromandelstreet, and another section with frontage to Somerset-avenue, and an eight-roomed house at the corner of Coromandel-streej and Somerset-avenue; also a five-roomed cottage in Shannon-street. To-morrow, at 2.15 p.m., in the Chamber of Commerce, Customhouse-quay, Wellington, Mr. H. Ernest Leighton will offer for sale by auction a 6-roomed residence, situated on . Karoa-road, Kelburn; also a 7-roomed residence with ovsr J-acre land; and a property containing nearly 7 acres of land. This property was formerly the homo of the late Captain Humirey.