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Business Notices. X. ARMSTRONG & CO.'S* HM STREET AND MARKET . SQUARE, INT K m , STOCK-TAKING SALE COMMENCES TO-DAY. We have beau successful in procuring soma GREAT BARGAINS For this Sale, at RIDICULOUS PRICES. NEW GOODS JTOB EVENING WEAK; GKEATLY BBDUOEIA The whole ol our enormous Stock has been thoroughly gone through, and all Goods that were found out of Season, Soiled, Short Lengtho, Odd. ments, Old Patterns or makes, are marked down to RIDICULOUS PRICES. HUNDREDS OP HEW JOB LINES Of Useful Every-day Articles will by pat in this) Sale at ggx LESS THAN MARKET VALUE. NOT IC E OP H> EMOV AL. . . ..-0, PANNE LB. TAILOR, Ac,, Begs to announce that, owing to the increase in his business, he has REMOVED TO LARGES PREMISES, • No. 127. MANCHESTER STREET (Opposite Burke’s Hotel). A Choice ‘Assortment of Twe.eds, Serges, Coatings, Ac. # X 1503 SUITS from 555. A Trial Solicited. J. A.. LU M.MIS, PAINTER AND DECORATOR. SIGN WHITING A SPECIALITY. Direct Importer or Paporhangings, Oils, Colours, Acts, Corner Tuam and Durham Streets Telephone. No. CIS. P 360 I .NEW -NOVEL ABSORBING INTEREST COMMENCED IN « rpHE OANTERBURY rj^lMßa'* ON AUGUST 13. “ THE BROKEN FETTER,” JOHN K. LEYS Lovers of thrilling and sensational fiction -will he delighted to learn that the Proprietors of “ The Canterbury Times" have secured the right to publish an absorbing new work of singular interest from the pen of JOHN K. LEYS, Author of “ The Lindsays,” “In the Toils,” “ The Mystery of Lowdon Castle,” “ On the Track of the Iron Horse,” ’* Guilty or Not Guilty," “ A Bird of Prey," &c„ &c. “THE BROKEN FETTER ” possesses an unusual plot and an abundance of incident, and is, moreover, written in a style to please the most fastidious reader. > The author of our new story, Mr John K. Leys, is well luipwn as a writer of skilfully constructed stories. Hi a works, whilst quite within the domain of probability, nevertheless derive much of their interest on account of the fertility of their i author’s imagination. They are essentially stories of action, rapid in movement, and are written in a vigorous style. Mr Leys has few compeers in the art of conatructing a story so as to sustain and increase the j interest with each succeeding chapter. He lures the reader on from scene to scene, end holds him spellbound to the end of the story. In a serial competition instituted by one of the great English weeklies, Mr Leys obtained the first prize of £l5O for his sensational story “In the Toils.” • j THE FIRST INSTALMENT OF j “THE BROKEN FETTER ” COMMENCED IN THE •• CANTERBURY TIMES’* ' . ON AUGUST 13. OUTLINE OF THE OPENING CHAPTERS. Dr Stanford is summoned to attend a young Bussian lady who seems to he dying from au inexplicable cause. On examination he decides that sho must have inhaled some poisonous gas from a scent bottle placed by someone on the table. The doctor manifests an unusual interest in bis patient. When ha re-visits the girl, he discovers the incriminating spent bottle has been removed by Madame Fabrini, who is ostensibly the housekeeper. On being closely questioned, she reluctantly produces a bottle, which is recognised by Ursula Beritza, the patient, as the identical bottle. Dr Stanford’s suspicions of Madame Fabrini are temporarily allayed, hut in leaving the house his eye is caught by a sparkle of glass in the gravel, which proves to he a fragment of a similar scentbottle. The' doctor returns, hut finds that Madame Fabriui has disappeared; he is informed that Ursula has also gone, hut is sceptical about the latter information. He casually sees her at a window whilst he is going through the gardens, and goes hack, when she confides in him, informing him of the plot to destroy her life. Her story is a sad and exciting one. The foregoing conveys hut a faint idea of the opening incidents of a very exciting serial. The story itself is largely concerned with the affairs of a Nihilist Society, one of whose members is a traitor, and the evil genius of the story, he plots and counterplots, his chief design being to obtain possession of the Beritza estates. To further his purposes nothing is too diabolical for his scheming brain. He causes Ursula’s brother to he arrested, thereby hastening her father’s death, and matures plans by which he hopes to get rid of Ursula herself. Attempting far too much, he defeats his own ends. A strong “love element runs through the ■ story, which one ot extraordinary power and sensation