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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 November 1924, Page 2

, MlSCELijAlfijutJSi gPECIAL —T. Gourlay’s stock of suitings and trousering to be. cleared at ridiculous prices.—W. Hawkins, corner High and Victoria Sts. gPECIAL Opportunity to procure suitihgs, remnants; 00 ready-to-wear suits to be cleared at ridiculous prices. —W. Hawkins, High and Victoria Sts. tablecloths and spotless linens are assured with “Dove” Erane. Starch. None as good. Ah grocers sell it. QILVER KINGj lever filling fountain pen, now reduced to 1/- each; works just like the 25/- pens.—T. G. Liddington, High St., Hawera. JJTHE roast beef of old England is nothing without Hayward’s “Military” Pickles. Sold by all grocers. Refuse substitutes. Wrap-around. Corsets, j very popular models. —Miss Stewart, High Street; telephone 770. i can supply just what you are looking for in stockings, cotton lisle, cashmere, silk and wool, also silk. —Miss Stewart, High Street. NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL; ——• — : — HUMAN TORCH DIES IN AGONY. PARIS, Sept. 8. The inhabitants of the little village of Julienas, Rhine department, were horrified when they saw a human torch careering down the village street and emitting agonised cries which suddenly ended. It was a half-witted young woman who in the momentary absence of her husband had undressed and poured gasoline over her body and set fire to it. HUGE PRODUCTION OF ‘‘AIDA” COLLAPSES. BERLIN, Sept. 22. Haimovici, the Russian impresario who put on the mammouth production here of “Aida,” with Pietro Mascagni, composer of “Uavalieria Rustic ana,” as musical conductor, has been arrested here following the collapse of the undertaking. Haiinoviei is charged with having issued cheques in payment of Expenses incurred though he knew that other cheques already signed by him had not been honoured by the hank because of the lack of funds. Two other directors of the “Aida” undertaking, General Manager Weberand Df. Rosner, are being sought by the Berlin police. Rosner suddenly moved from the big hotel where he was staying to another hotel, whence he disappeared. Hamovici recently got into difficulties at Vienna in connection with his starring of Georges Carpentier in a prize fight there. He was also prominent in putting on the mammoth “Aida” production at Vienna, the debts incurred in which, caused the attachment of the first night’s receipts of the Berlin ‘ ‘Aida’ ’ production by Vienna creditors.

FIRST WITCHCRAFT CASE IN GERMANY IN CENTURY. BERLIN, Sept. 22. The first witchcraft trial in Germany in. perhaps a century has just taken place near Hanover. A peasant woman whose cows, pigs, and goats all became sick, charged a neighbour with being, a witch and having east a spell on them. The. neighbour filed a complaint for slander, and in court the defendant testified that she and many others fully believed in withcraft and could not explain the sickness of her live stock in any other way. The court'fined her 15s".' HUNDREDS SLAIN IN ARMENIAN ’QUAKES. SHOCKS WIPE OUT 37 VILLAGES. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 20/ More than sixty persons have been killed in a series of earthquakes! in the Erzeroum district of Armenia, according to despatches here. The ’quakes have destroyed thirtyseveii villages out of forty-nine along the banks of the river Aras. It is also reported that forty persons have been killed in the Pussinier district. . The ’quakes, have not yet ended, and are being felt also in the Kars district. WORLD’S EARLIEST STONE TOMBS FOUND.

■ . CAIRO, Sept. 19. Two royal tomb chapels of the third dynasty, belieyed to be the earliest stone buildings known to the world, are reported to have been discovered near the factious pyramids of Sekkara, about fifteen miles south of Cairo. Cecil Firth, of the Egyptian antiquities department, considers the discovery one of the most important made by archaeologists in recent years. Built in a style differing in almost every respect from what as known as Egyptian architecture, the chapels are believed to. have been the burial places of princesses or scions of the third dynasty. CANADIAN BANK SMASH. TRIAL OF~OFFICIALS. . MONTREAL, Sept. 11. The trial of the directors and officials of the late Home Bank, which collapsed last year after several years of mismanagement and apparent wilful looting by some persons connected with the institution, opened to-day at Toronto. It is expected to prove a cause celebre owing to the prominence of the directors and others who are charged with criminal offences .in the conduct of the Home Bank’s affairs.

to get Immigrants. COMMITTEE OF PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN. LONDON, Sept. 13. The question of emigration to the Dominions is rapidly attaining a position in the forefront of general discussion in Great Britain. Roland Bourne proposes the establishinent in London of & powerful organisation of prominent men and women with no financial interests concerned to work in close harmony with the British overseas.

SUMMER EPIDEMICS. People who go to the country for the summer should always take a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colie and Diarrhoea Remedy with them. The effect of the change to tank water and the usual summer epidemics of bowel complaints can all be guarded against with a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. It never fails to relieve and check diarrhoea, dysentery and colic. Sold everywhere.

Just Opened—A great range of UOL- . OURED BEDSPREADS; single and double bed sizes—C. C. Ward Ltd. Prices 11/6, 13/6, 14/6, 18/6 AXMINSTER CARPET RUNNERS, 27-inch 'wide, in tasty rose and fawn pattern —Special Offer at 12/6 yard