PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 93, 22 April 1915, Page 8

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS.

On Saturday next Griffiths Bros. Will offer for. sale pigs and a quantity of furniture. Next Wednesday the firm will hold a clearing sale at the residence of Mr J. Hislop, High St. Any person or persons found tampering with pound-gate locks will be prosecuted. ■■„.-• On Tuesday next, at Tapawera, Messrs Bisley Bros., of Nelson,. will offer for sale 3000 breeding ewes m lots- to suit buyers. Reward is offered for return of lost, broocli. . , Probationer nurses are wanted-at (vha Wairjiu Hospital. '_ . A notice re poison laid for birds is inserted to-day. Gascoigne, grocer, requires a shop assistent. - Homes and Lane have landed an assortment of guns and rifles for sale. : Ladies are advised to purchase their winter shoes at Healy's before the bad weather arrives. . Patrons and others ,-who intend paying a visit to the Marlborough Assembly's evening in St. Patrick's Halt to-niglit are advised that the prices of. admission have been reduced. -

The local agents of the New Zealand Shipping Company are in receipt of advice that their chartered steanl-er Mottisfont arrived at Gravesend yesterday. . •■ Discussing the Sydney Daily Telegraph's criticism of the New Zealand ■ Rugby League's proposal to send a team to Australia, the president of tha New Zealand Council states that the tour has not been definitely tarranged, and that no present action is contemplated. : The most striking impression of the flower show which opened in the Town Hall this afternoon is that it isj extremely -picturesque,, and the .collection of autumn flowers is one which' is well worthy of attention. Ohrys--anthemums and dahlias mate up two 'jottosst interesting sections, and soin© ■very-fine blooms have *' been . shown s Mrs , Arthur Bartlett was tlie mo^t successful exhibitor of "mums," and. she shared honors with Messrs WJ Smale and A; E. Bartlett in the dahlia section. The spectacular merit of the show is enhanced by the combined ■exhibition by Messrs Smale and Bartlett of dahlias, and,an exhibit ot pot plants by Messrs Hadfield Bros. shows to advantage. The competition for the best arranged table was won by Mrs A. J. Wicks, while Miss Keafc ing achieved- much success with several very presentable collections of. blooms nnd'bouquets. The show drew an inberested crowd this afternoon, and^tlw) baby show proved a great attraction. To-night a- musical programme will bo rendered, and the vegetables and fruit exhibited will bo sold by auction,;. It is stated by the Christchiirch Press that wholesale prosecutions aro pending for failure to attend drill on the part of members of the Territorial Force. Despite the fact that there are 700 members on the roll of the Lsfc (Canterbury) Regiment, of whom 470 attended the Balcairn camp, only 277 attended a recent battalion p<a.rade. The company parades «i'O reported to be equally as poorly a.ttended. It is stated that 120 men are to be summoned to appear before the Court for being absent without Laa?e,- and that absentees from a further battalion parade to be held on' 27bh April will also be prosecuted. It is a fact that since the outbreak of the war several of the smaller butchers in and abount Dunedin have been -.compelled to clo«c up (says the Star), being unable to finance their bits>iuesse> owing to the rise in the price of meat, and to the necessity of prompt payment for" purchases at Burnside. Prior to the war the trade had been prepared for a fall in prices, i but .since hostilities began there had, i of course, been a rise. The rise, however, was so gradual that the retailers, hoping each month that the limit had been reached, did not make anj oori-esponding increase to their cusfconifr*. conisequentiy the sinall&r^ men cr.nkl not stand the sti-ain. Now that t;n price to be p.tid by the lin[)©rhu liovernment for ■ New Zealand meat has been fixed, there is little foar of any further rise, «t any rate for sorm> months. It must bo rempml»wo;i fchiit although tho butchers may oJu'ige :x correspondingly increased pi-ice-' per pound to that which they pay, such increase can only be olibained on about two-thirds' of each bitllot-k, the balance, boing fat, bones, | skins, and other parts, the. prices of i which are "practically the same a.s thosa ruling for the pa.st twenty years.

It is told in tbe ninth chapter of the Book of Surat, in the Koran (writes a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian) that Mahomet, when his fortunes were at thenlowest, assured Abu Kekr, the culy friend still faithful to him, that though they were but two they were nevertheless safe. being in a majority with God." It w suggested that this is what the. Kaiser was thinking of when he said that a man with God is always in a majority. The Kaiser, it will be remembered, ascribed the words to John Knox. It he really took them from Mahomet, and credited them to Knox (to whom they certainly do not belong), it is the most extraordinary mistake he has yet made. It ought to ruin him . :.-> r'nnof.intinnnlf.