THE MOTUEKA SEAT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 21 October 1911, Page 5

THE MOTUEKA SEAT.

MR. F. H. DTTR BRIDGE'S CANDIDA TURE.

Mr. F> H. Durbridge will address the electors at Kiwi cm Monday; Tui on Tuesday; Glen-Hope, Wednesday ; Rokotoeo. Friday; and TJipper Moutere, on Monday, 30th inst.

■MB. SMITH'S CANDIDATURE

■ (Communicated. - ) ~ Mr. ■Fv'W. Smith, is holding very successful,', meetings in &hte Gulden Jiay district. A very large meeting was held in Collingwood on Monday night, Mr. Allan in the chair. At the conclusion of a two-hotir address Mr. Allan moved a hearty vote of thanks, seconded by Mr. Bassett. who remarked that a vote of confidence would ibe given at the ballot •box. A large meeting was held at Bainham on Tuesday night, and at Aorere on Wednesday! At tho latter iplace the whole meeting 'pledging itstvf to secure Mr. Smith's return. At Ferntown on- Thursday night the population- turned out. en masse, and a most successful meeting was he'd. Successful meetings were also held through, the Takaka Valley.

According t<y the "Tailor and Cut'ter," the latest novelty in shirts :s one with a pleated front in which a co-joured stripe appears. The shirt is so arranged that it can be fixed for either day or evening wear.

There is not a single pawnbroker in Qudbec, the last .person in that business laving died about 30 years ago. Since -that time no one has applied for a pawnbrokers license.

Cycling near Lake Annecy (France) -recently a man was attacked by an eagle, receiving a blow on the head which partly stunned him.

A thrill of excitement ran through the fxameof a Melbourne solicitor the other day, w.hen he received a letter from an American firm of attorneys. Great possibilities presented themselves, for the letter requested that inquiries should be made regarding a .recently-deceased Australian millionaire. The name was g»v«»It was not John Smith, but that wilt do. It was stated that ho had for years followed the occupation of "art curio connoisseur." that-he had amassed a fortune of over a million, and that he had latelv died intestate in Melbourne. 'Jo pav half a crown for the right of searching the files of the Master in Eqmty, -in order to trace such an estate as that was an expenditure about which the solicitor did not hesitate for a moment. was soon on the track of -"John Smith" ; but alsa for trie high hopes he had entertained, be found that the entry was nierelv. "John Smith, marine- store dealer, £1100." That was all that the glor-ifkd millionaire "art curio connoiseur'' had been in real life. His estate had been magnified a thousand fold by his expectant heirs.

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