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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7977, 7 December 1911, Page 5

IMPROVEMENTS IN WELLINGTON During the last lew years there has beta a marked Improvement in the style cf building erected in' the iEmpire City. The latest improvement la the setting back and ! remodelling of the premises of Messrs W, F.Shortt. Ltd. The work is already in hand, and when completed will bo one of the handsomest buildings in the city, with facilities for the display of the firm’s ertensive stock of Inrniluro, which will K i Tg them one of the finest showrooms In Well, ineton. During alterations the farm tor* department will he removed to the showroom upstairs, which is approached by an entrance from Old Customhouse street. That the one place in Wellington to furbish to Shortt’s has been borne out by the fact that during the three weeks their sale hafl been in progress no leas than £IBOO worth Of furniture has been sold for delivery in all parts of the Dominion, while orders for furniture In oak, etc., err being received dally, which keeps the factory working at high pressure to complete. The superior finish and excellent duality of their goods, together with their extremely reasonable prices, has made* this firm’s trade one of the most extensive In Wellington, and those placing their orders with them may roly on getting the very beet that it Is possible to make. AJ| orders for delivery in the country are packed and delivered on the railway station or steamer free of charge.—.Ailrt.

Among the branches of the NavJ League which sent wreathe for the decoration of the Neleon column on Trafalgar Day (October 21st) were those at Wanganui, Otago, Tim am, and Canterbury. The decorations of the statue were on a much more imposing scale than hitherto, and the wnich came from every part: of the world, numbered over 300. At Gisborne an interrupter asked Sir James Carroll why he had not opened up native lands. Sir James Carroll: “Name a block. . . Ton cinnot mention one." He then said that 213 Europeans held 13,000,000 acres of land in New Zealand, and proceeded to show that almost all the native lands around Gisborne had been satisfactorily dealt with. When he took oflice in 1000 the state of the district in that respect was most unsatisfactory. . "Awarua Invaded," “A Telling Speech," are the headings in a Conservative organ above a report of Mr Allen's speech at. Invercargill. The invasion was so great, and the speech so remarkably telling that Mr Allen could not get more than thirty persons to vote against the present administration. Such fnlmination* about victories where there has been obvious defeat loads unbiassed minds -to" ihe conclusion that all that is being written about Conservative progress in the campaign is based upon the (am* silly rubbish. ‘ ,