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Evening Star, Issue 16045, 23 February 1916, Page 2

Wingate's bacon factory at Opotiki I (Auckland) was destroyed by fire yester- j day. The building and contents are a j total loss. The insurances are :—Building I £250; stock, £775; machinery, £465. j He : " What is the difference between a ! gvwn and a creation'!"' She: "I can't! give you the exact figures; but it's a small I fortune." i The Troitsk Monastery, near Moscow, j which has given its extensive workshops I for munition making, might bo termed a ' city rather than a monastery, for its walls ! have a. circumference of two-thirds of a < mile, and it comprises two cathedrals and \ eleven lesser churches, in addition to col- j leges, hospitals, and the dwelling-houses! finely factories of the monks. 'Founded in ! 1337, it has warlike memories, for it was • captured and burned bv tho Tartars in i 1422, and in 1608-09 successfully with- | stood a. 16-moriths' siege by the Poles.

In many families the eating of porridge is discontinued for the summer months. This is because ordinary porridge is too heating for the "Blood. But with I 6SC § s<oi^nrj|f!'j this objection does not hold good. Gerstena does not overheat the blood nor give one an unpleasant sense of fullness after eating. You'll relish it evon for th« midsummer breakfast. SOLD BY ALL GROCEKS. B HWQCWSMCTWaawsnreJigio!

The busy man of affairs, who usually "hasn't the time to think of tea flavours" is at once cognisant of tjie different aroma and refreshing qualities of Thereafter he specifies "Amber Tips Tea for home use—if there is occasion to do so. Let your "office cup" be filled Try the tSift&t-:-'- ■■'■.«-..«■?:■ j^ WHOLESALE AGENTS: WILLtAM TAYLOR AND SONS, LTO.