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SALES BY AUCTION REMEMBER. THIS DAY (FRIDAY). At 12.30. tn Our Main Floor Rooms. Dowling street. T. HILDA FREEHOLD PROPERTY. 8 Gotten street. ; Estate of Alexander Kilgour. ITAMES SAMSON & . CO. W will sell by Auction, To-day (Friday), •t 12.30, the above. THIS (FRIDAY) EVENING, At 7.15. CONTINUATION OF SALE Of CHESTERFIELD SUITES. 8 BEAUTIFUL CHESTERFIELD SUITES (Glorious designs and patterns), t 5 FIRESIDE AND BRIDGE CHAIRS. '0 BE SOLD TO HIGHEST BIDDERS. Also, „ „ 15 WILTON 1 AND AXMINSTER CARPETS. CARPETS CARPETS CARPETS (In All Sizes). And HOUSEHOLD LINEN • Of All Kinds. Towels, Sheets, Napery, Bedspreads, Quilts, 10 EIDERDOWN QUILTS (All genuine eider and this year's models), JEWELLERY. JEWELLERY, JEWELLERY, Watches.' Chains, ‘ E.P. Ware. Cigarette Cases, Brooches, Bangles. 'TAMES SAMSON &, _ „CO. •J will sell by Auction, TO-NIGHT (Friday), at 7.15. THIS DAY. N - FRIDAY, JUNE 30, At 2 o’clock. At Rooms, Butterworth’s Buildings, High street. BEAUTIFUL WALNUT PIANO (J. and J. Hopkinson, London), BILLIARD-DINING TABLE, MOQUETTE CHESTERFIELD SUITE, * AXMINSTER CARPETS (12 x 10), AXMINSTER RUGS, SOLID WALNUT SIDEBOARD. PARK, REYNOLDS, LIMITED, are instructed to sell by Auction, as above. Also, Buffet sideboard, tapestry easy chair, high-back dining chairs, . Cromwell dining suite, bookshelves, Ottoman couch, engravings, pictures, 2 duchesse chests, hall tables, electric radiators, fireside kerb, kitchen tables, and furniture, Singer sewing machine, CHAMPION GAS RANGE. < THIS DAY, FRIDAY. JUNE 30, At 2 o’clock. At Rooms, High street (Butterworth’s . ' Buildings). FIREPROOF SAFES. , TANN JEWELLER’S SAFE, 30 x 24 x 24 MILNER FIRST QUALITY. 28 x 22 ’ x 22, IMPREGNABLE. 26 xlB x 16, MIDLAND. 30 x 20 x 18. Three of the above have two inside drawers. . - - Now on View. "PARK, REYNOLDS, LIMITED. AUCTION, THIS DAY (FRIDAY), At 2 p.m. In, Our Rooms, Dowling street. METYLER IRON-FRAME PIANO, ■ CHAS. BEGG PIANO; HUGO STEFFENS PIANO, 3-PIECE CHESTERFIELD SUITE ■ (Beautifully sprung, latest coyer). *OLID OAK SIDEBOARD (Bow front), AXMINSTER CARPET (12 x 9), WILTON CARPET (10.6 x 9; good quality), MASON AND HAMLIN ORGAN. ELECTRIC SEWING MACHINE, I Morris Chairs. 4 -Tables, 5 Rolls of Lino,., 1 Settee, 4 Mattresses, 8 Bed Ends, Pictures and Books, 5-valve Gilfillan Battery Set, Climax B Eliminator, 4-volt Battery, 2 Drop-head Sewing Machines, 4yds Axminster Hall Runner, Oak Extending Table, Oak Sideboard, Hall Stand, Double Wood Beds, S.G. Pram, Kitchen Table, Lollie Bottles, Wringer, Garden Hose. Lawnmower, Columbia Portable Gramophone. Long Mirror, S.G. Push Chair (new),' Tungar Battery Charger, Gentleman’s Cycle. Dry-cleaning Machine, Washing Machine, Drop-side Cot, Lino.. Copper, Kerb, Glory Boxes,. Oak Gate-leg Table, Dropside Cot, Electric Irons, Tricycle, etc., etc. pLARKE & ” VENN. LTD’., Auctioneers. THIS DAY. FRIDAY, JUNE 30. 3 p.m. and 7.30 (evening). In Upstairs Rooms, 6 Manse street. F.P SAFE (24 x 16 x 16). F.P. SAFE (24 x 18 x 18). F.P. SAFE (large, 45. x 26 x 26). iPFICE TABLES (3), TYPEWRITER, iETTER PRESSES, MAP OF DUNEDIN .(on rollers). Also, iottage Pianos (2), Superior Piano Boyd), Sewing Machines (2), 100 Rabbit ’raps (as new), 4 Sets Golf Clubs (with ags). Gentleman’s Bicycle, 6 Seagrass ffiairs (as . new). Dinner Wagon, tretcher (3ft). Portable Gramophone, llectric Fires. Radiators. Hedge Shears, las Cooker (Hottentot), Hall Stand, Easy hairs, Superior Chesterfield Suite. Caret (12 x 10, matches suite), D.R. Table, K. Tables, etc. Ither Goods Arriving. Further Entries Invited. R, S. M'KENZIE, of Manse street. . LIMITED, MONEY ANTED TO PURCHASE, FIRST MORTGAGES, Up to £BOO on City Freehold Property. Particulars and price to 548, TIMES OFFICE. Trust moneys ro lend at LOWEST CURRENT RATES. • HAMEL & SIMPSON. Solicitors. ‘ COMMERCIAL BANK BUILDINGS IB Dowling street Phone 10-286 (Formerly of Cargill’s Corner. South Dunedin.) LOANS. —All securities, low rates; con fidential. —Accomodation. Ltd., Hank of New Zealand Chambers, Princes street. The people of a village in Lorraine *re shaking their sides with laughter at a mistake, caused by a noisy telephone line and the bad hearing of the mayor. In the pigeon holes of every commune in France are kept a set of numbered sealed orders, so that the Government can quickly communicate with every part of the country. One morning an official at Mi recon rt, the nearest town to Avillers, telephoned to the mayor of the village telling him to open sealed order numcro six. The mayor -thought the official said “ Numcro dix,” so he hastily opened No. 10 of the sot of secret instructions. He found that it contained orders for mobilisation. The mayor called the town crier and sent him to rally the reservists. In less than an hour a crowd of weeping wives and sweethearts, grey-haired mothers and tearful ■isters were waving pocket handkerchiefs it the cross-roads while a band of men trudged off to Mirecourt to report for service. The village band, playing martial music, accompanied the soldiers, who imagined themselves off to defend France against hostile invasion and feared that they might never again return home. They had trudged three or four miles filong the road when they were overtaken by the town crier on a bicycle. The mistake had. been discovered and secret instruction No, 6 had been opened. It ordered a census of the village’s horses ■nd mules 1

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21993, 30 June 1933, Page 14

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