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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 105, 8 May 1896, Page 3

Some of the leading members of the Roya Academy have been severely criticised am taken to task for selling their creations tc advertising firms, and even executing " worki of art" to the specific order of " somebody'] soap " or " General pills." Punch has recently issued a clever skifc or the advertising mania introduced between paragraphs of bona Me interest, and pub lishea a specimen of what we may expect m the novel of the future, ' , {There is (says a London paper) undoubtedly i grievance m this respect. There is nothiug more annoying, or more likely to make a man want to get up and kick himself than to commence a sub-leader on the Chitral war jr the Salisbury foreign policy, and eventually find himself literally m a lather of Seagull's Moonlight Soap. We quite agree with this (says another ex:hanee), and hold such a practice to be quite indefensible. There is a time and a place ioi jverything, and there is plenty of scope foi idvertising without monopolising the reading natter of public interest.* . There is only one plea of justification, and that is when an irticle ,of sterling value and indisputable lualityj such as Vanity .Fair Cigarettes, b to be brought and kept before thepublio. (For continuation of reading matter see first and fourth pages.) HEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ON TUESDAY^ne 12th instant, Adjutant Liitlejohn- will snpervise the firing for the Government Medal. The following are eligible to com" pete this year:— Color- Sergt. Powell, Bergts. Ching, Wemysa, Brewster, Fuller, Corpls. Foster, Poison, Patchett, O' Sullivan, Martin, Bugler Fitzgerald, Volunteers Dawes, Desmond, Freeth, Hall, B. Logan, J. H, and F. Morrison, and H, Smith. For instructions see Post Cards. LIEUT. FOWLER, Officer Commanding 8.8.V. SALE OE_SADDLERY. MY tender having been accepted for the Stock m the estat9 of D. Burn*, I am holding a Cheap Sale of All Kinds of Saddlery. The stock ia most extensive and well assorted. For CASH Low Prices will be accepted. Mr D. Burns will hava charge ol the Sales Department. B. BiIiLANTINE. WITH regard to the above, I will be pleased to see all my old friends at the above Shop, and can assure them of every effort being used to g»ve satisfaction. D. BURNS. MEETING. A MEETING of all those m« terested m holding a Bace Meeting on May 25tb, or any suit* able date to be decided on, will be held at Ryan's Globe Hotel, Benwick, on WEDNESDAY, 18th May, at 8 p.m. W. TAPP, Convener. FOR SALE, A CHAFF-CUTTER ana Horse- gear, together or separately. Apply to H. BOTHAM, Tua Marina. FOR SALE OR TO LET. "pURE-BRED SHORT-HORN BULL.) "*- For further particulars apply W. E. CLOUSTON. BRUNNERTON RELIEF FUND. T)ERSONS having Subscription J- Lists are requested to retubn same to the Mayok or Town Clekk, Blenheim, NOTICE. ANYONE trespassing on the land known as Donald's Farm, Dillon's Point Road, m pursuit of game, will be prosecuted, Mr W. Aldridge is m charge of Property. W. E GLQUJ3TQN,