Here and There.

Northern Advocate, 25 June 1910, Page 6

Here and There.

The Thair.es Embankment cost £1,710,000 to build.

Ladies' Silk and Lace Ties at 1/ each at Somervell's, where the 4/0 hats are.

It is stated that there are about 225,000 miles of cable in all at the bottom of the sea.

KNIVES—TabIe, Bread, Butchers ; Pruning, Pocket, and 1-lav Knives. G-ood value, at J. MARSHALL AND SONS.

An acre of forest 'when cut down will yield about 1000 cubic feet of timber.

Ladies' Silk and Lace Ties at 1/ each at Somervell's, where the 4/0 hats are.

Naval log-books eventually find a resting-place in the Record Office.

For Influenza take Woods" Great Peppermint Cure.. Never fails. Is ♦id and 2s 6d.

Each of the horses of the British Army costs the nation £25 a year for forage.

. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, For Chonic Chest Complaints. It; (id and 2s 6d.

The Forth Bridge is said to contain 48,000 tons of steel.

Ladies' Silk and Lace Ties at 1/ each at Somervell's, where the 4/6 hats are.

Lightning kills, on an average, 23 people in England, !)2 in France, and 165 in Germany every year.

Ask tor Roslyn Unshrinkable Flannel every—me. Look Cor the words ''Deltp P'inish."

With a load of 4001b, it is said, a camel can travel 12 or 14 days without water, going 40 miles a day.

Ladies' Silk and Lace Ties at 1/ each' at Somervell's, where the 4/6 hats are.

A Paris dentist see'Ss to divert his patients with a gramophone while he pulls their teeth.

WANTED KNOWN.—AII kinds Settlers Ironmongery, Fencing Wire, Iron and Builders' Goods, at Bed Rock Prices, from J. MARSHALL AND SONS.

The average age of British cavalry horses is five years and two months.

Getting a patent is not s n easy and safe a thing, or not invariably, a_ many people think. The man with an idea should consult an expert. Messrs Baldwin and Rayward, of 30 His Majesty's Arcade, Auckland, publishers of Progress—the inventors' journal—are constantly saving people expense and trouble.

British ships earn about £90,000,----006 per annum for freights and' insurance.

For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, ls 6d and 2s 6d.

In time of war the death-rate among Army officers is proportionally heavier than among the rank and file.

The 17th Lancers, the "Death or Glory Boys," were once known as "Bingham's Dandies," on account of their very smart appearance when on parade. Bingham was 'the name of the commanding officer.

Ladies' Silk and Lace Ties at 1/ each at Somervell's, where the 4/6 hats are.

PERSISTENCY REWARDED

The good things in life are usuallyclaimed by the persistent. Hence it is that most people—indeed we might almost say almost all —in Whangarei are now enjoying the special comfort of wearing Roslyn clothing and unshrinkable underwear, Delta finish (so delightful to the sensitive skin. And all this, mind you, as tho result of the people's splendid persistency in asking Whangarei drapers and clothiers for Roslyn every tiimc.

Nearly 000,000 miners are employed in the mines of the United Kingdom.

Ladies' Silk and Lace Ties at 1/ each at Somervell's, where the 4/0 hats are.

The Bedouin Arabs are small eaters. Six or seven dates, soaked in melted butter, serve a man a whole day, with a V «"V small quantity of coarse hour and a little ball of rice.

New Season's Vegetable Seeds— O'Leary and Downs "Al" Seeds, arriving each week, all new, at J. MARSHALL AND SONS.

The earning capacity of the workers of Greater London in a year of 250 days is £173,291,000.

New ,Stock Flower Seeds now to hand at J. MARSHALL AND SONS.

The conch in which ihe Lord Mayor of London rides on State occasions has been in use since the

year 1757

Ladies' Silk and Lace Ties at 1/ each at Somervell's, where the 4/6 hats sue.

Mistletoe comes from Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and other Midland counties, as well as from Brittan v and elsewhere abroad.

DR. NEIL'S Herbal Remedies, in full stock at J. MARSHALL AND SONS. Try "Balm of Gilead" for Colds, there's nothing better. Platelayers are more liable to accident than any other railway workmen. On an average one gets hurt in every 35 hours in the Un ted Kingdom. Ladies' Silk and Lace Ties at 1/ each at Somervell's, where the 4/6 hats are. The mean ratable value of the metropolitan area for th£ London Metropolitan Police purposes is about £50,000,000 Ladies' Silk and Lace Ties at 1/ each at Somervell's, where the 4/6 hats are. The first regular newspaper is believed to have been the "Frankfurter Journal," which was published weekly in 1615.

Ask the sufferer from Rheumatism Gout, Sciatica, or Lumbago the value -of health. Ask what he woiilf' give to again move freely and with out pain. Then you have the value of RHEUMO. It has cured thousands, for it removes the onuse of these diseases. Try a bottle. Youi chemist or store sells it at 2s Pr and 4s 6d. 1?

There are 17,000,000 children between the ages of six and 14 in Russia who are receiving no education whatever.

Ladies' Silk and Lace Ties at 1/ each at Somervell's, where the 4/6 hats are.

The longest underground throughfare in Great Britain is in Central Derbyshire, where you can walk seven miles upon a road connecting several coal-mines.

MESSAGE FOR THE MA V WHO IS TORTURED WITH RHEUMATISM OR GOUT.

Every year Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatica, or Lumba_c brings torture o thousands of men. To some it comes during the early and more vigorous years, with others, after middle life has Deen reached, or passed—but in every case the trouble is due to excess uric acid in the blood. RHEUMO is the one certain and simple cure tor Rheumatism, Gout, and kindred ailments, and it is the only cure. Perhaps you have read alluring advertisements asserting that remedies claiming t© cure almost every other ailment will also relieve Rheumatism. Now, a

doctor gives the same prescription for indigestion, for debility, for liver troubles, for neuralgia and for Rheumatism. No, he knows, and you know, that eaoh different class of ailment requires a particular medicine. Lim'ments, pills, and similar nostrums, although cheap, are useless. RHEUMO, tried, tested, and proved efficacious by thousands of sufferers, is the o_e sale and satisfactory cure. Thousands have found relief. You ton can b» cured Chemist'or stores. 2s 6d and 4s 6d.