MESSRS RAPHAEL TUCK AND SONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2493, 25 December 1901, Page 11

MESSRS RAPHAEL TUCK AND SONS.

Messrs Eaphae! Tuck and Sons' Christmas productions, a varied assortment of which has leached us, have acquired a reputation that it is no easy matter to maintain. The artistic level to which the firm have attained m the design and execution of Christmas and New Year cards, toy bocks, and calendars is such that further advancement teems plmost impossible. Yet yar after year this firm, which stands indisputably in the supreme position in regaid to the production of this class of goods, surprises the tracle ar.cl delights the public with novelties thai chailcngc favourable comparison with its efforts in any previous yepr. Tho collection which has this season been brought under our notice represents a fresh triumph. In conception and execution the Raphael House productions of 1.901 exhibit the highest ailistic merit. Jt has been truly said of Messrs Eaphael Tuck and Sons' cards- m past years, and it may be repeated now, that they are not of a kind to be thrown away, but to be preserved to beautily the hou«-e. Special interest attaches ILis year T o a Christmas panel which the publishers teim a Royal Christmas oarcl. It is a faithful replica oi a card produced by them last yeai — the las'i of the loyal special Christmas cards they had the honour of annually preparing for her late Majesty the Queen. The subject of the card is the Madonna and infant child, and the art of the designer and tho workmanship of the it-producers are alike admirable. Thib panel heads the collection, and its lowest piice is lialf-a-crown, but the cards which aie placet! in the market for only a few pence are charmiKgly artistic and exquisitely finished. If they were not produced in millions they could not possibly *be sold at such low prices.

Nimmo and Blair's Agricultural Seeds should be used to get good results. They ara of the best quality and reasonable in pi ice. Kimmo and Blair will be pleased to send samples and give quotations at any time b? notifying name and address.

A recently-returned Soutniand trooper , mentions that sick or wounded Imperial and colonial troops preferred Dutch bisters to nurse ihein, despite the kindness and attention divraye b.siovied by the British nurses One of the most pathetic aspects of the war, he ie.^ -irked, r.as tho tender tare shown by yc'uiig Beer women, who had losi a father, biollicr, cr some relulijii in battle, for the | British wounded,

borne 3 roods 27 perches of land — sections 66 and 67, block VI, Glenomaru survey district — ha%e been temporarily reserved for boat landing and camping purposes. The Hastings Standard has it on the best authority that a claim for £500 has been sent in to the New Zealand Shipping Company for the services of the Hastings Fire Bngade in connection with the recent fire ■q the Wauaate at Napier.,