BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1916, Page 5

BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS.

’Harley and Co. are offering 496 sacks prime oaten chaff, delivery from the wharf, at £6. Jss per ton, A railway, dance, in, aid of the Red Cross Fund, will be held in the Druids’ Hal}, Tainui Street, xm Tuesday evening next. A send-off social will be tendered, to Private Cyril Corkhill in the Cobdon Hall on Tuesday evening next, to which all ■soldiers are invited. Elmshust No. 1 Tea is the finest tea grown in the Island of Ceylon. Ask the West Coast agents, Messrs .Mark Sprot and Co., Greymouth, for a sample. They are being given away fre£. Gall early.

Shareholders in line Grey-Cobdcn Building Society are reminded that their foitnightly paymnts . are due this . evening, and raav be paid between the hours of 7.30 and 8.30 at the. registered office of the Society, Mackav Street.

The Grey Countv Council are inviting applications for the positions of permanent roadmen for Mr.rsden, Orwell Creek, and Totara Flat. Read our advertising columns. At the residence of Mr J. M. Deverey. Cowper Street, on Tuesday next, at 2 p.m.,-Nancar.row and Co. will submit to auction the whole of bis household furniture and effects.. Full particulars may be obtained from the advertisement in another column. At Preston Road saleyards, on Monday next, fat cattle, wethers and sheep will bn submitted ‘to public competition. The full entry for the sale will be found hi another column. A euchre tournament and social, in ah! of the Red Cross Fund, will be held in Owens’ Hall,' Blakctown, on Monday evening next. As funds are 'urgently re-, mured to purchase material for the ladies’ “working-bee,” who are making up 'he materials into requisites for oiir troops, who will have, in all probability, to fare .■mother winter, it is to be hoped the public will attend the social in large numbers, and thus directly help in providing extra comforts for our boys who arc ligating the Empire’s battles in France. Weekly payments of 2s 6d will a Singer sewing machine for housewives in this district. The local branch in Mackay .Street have just landed an unusually large consignment of these machines, which are absolutely guaranteed above all other, makes. Liberal allowances will be made on old machines m cases where it is desired that they be replaced with an up-to-date now ’Singer. The company. also undertake repairs and stock requisites. Mr Turley, the local agent, will he pleased to attend to all enquiries whether made in person or by letter.

Messrs Matson and Co., the well-known auctioneers of Christchurch, have a spoc.ial notice in this issue in regard to the sales of livestock, wool, - skins, etc., entrusted to them for realisation. They handle a very large proportion of the total weekly' yarding?, at Addington, which is in itself tho best guarantee of their abilities as salesmen. Their Mr Duncan will take charge at Otira of all consignments of cattle and sheep from the West Coast, whilst they keep a special auctioneer, who is an expert in the classification of wools, etc., to d*al with the fellmongovy portion of their business. The firm’s "notice referred to appears cn the first page of to-night’s Star. If a man met you in thet street and, in tho course of conversation, whilst discussing the war, the weather, and the amount of sickness now prevalent, offered for the small sum of eightecnpence to practically guarantee you immunity from influenza this winter, would you pot feel inclined to accept his offer? There is vo doubt you would take it- on. lot this ? just about what Parkinson and Co. arc doing. They prepare a special remedy cr preventive of influenza, known as Influenza Specific, which, if taken as directed, on the first symptoms of influenza, nets like a charm and checks the complaint nt once. It is sold in two sizes, 1/6 (eight doses) and 2/6 (sixteen doses) by Parkinson and Co., chemists, Greymonth, or will ho sent post free anywhere for the same price., Don’t wait until yon get the influenza. Have, the Spe-cific-handy. and thus save weeks of sickness and misery.