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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16117, 4 May 1923, Page 10

GRAY'S AUCTION SALES TO-MORROW (SATURDAY). WHERE THE FIRE WAS—-ORMOND ROAD, at 11 a.m. AUCTION SALE ; of miMBER, ROOFING IRON, TANK, \ Etc., Etc. This is a fair lot, including some good match-lining. No Reserve. 741 TO-MORROW (SATURDAY). At the Mart, at 1.45 p.m. AUCTION SALE Of ONE 5-SEATER FORD CAR (in good running order). Also —1 Pie Cart (as new, on wheels), Pie Machine and Tins Pie Heater, etc. (all in good order). Good chance here, as the season is now on. 742 TO-MORROW (SATURDAY). At the Mart, at 2 p.m. AUCTION SALE Of POULTRY (good entry, including 30 W.L. Hens and 20 Ducks). FRUIT (usual entries). FURNITURE (good entry, including contents of Mrs. Mark Burt's home). fbedTgray. LEADING POPULAR AUCTIONEER. 743 Hints to Farmers. SECURE TOP MARKET RATES FOR Grain, Seeds, Produce SOLD ON COMMISSION. Orders on Hand for MAIZE, CHAFF, BARLEY, GRASS SEEDS. Storage at Current Rates. One Month Free. ON SALE FOR AUTUMN SOWING: Ryegrass, Machine-dressed and Farmers' Dressed Seed, Southern Ryegrass, Italian, Western Wolths, Cocksfoot, Cowgrass, White Clover, Chewing's Fcsoue, Crested Dogsta.il, Brown Top, Poa Pratensis, Marlborough and Hunter River Lucerne, Algerian Seed Oats;. N.Z. LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO., LTD. GLADSTONE. ROAD.

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL. TEN WOMEN SAW THROUGH PRISON BARS. I KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 7.—Ten women escaped from the- municipal reformatory here during the night. The women went through a second storey window after .sawing through a set of iron bars. HOBBY THAT PAYS. LONDON, April 13.—Lord Leverhulmo, speaking at the Hobbies Exhibition at Port Sunlight, said the collecting hobby was a joy within, everyone's reach. Soma pictures lie had! bought in early lifo were worth from twenty to a. hundred' fold their original price. For a. black vase for which hu gave the extravagant price* of £BOO ho had offers ranging from JLJIO.COO to £30,000. FIELD SETTLED £200,000 ON WIFE BEFORE DIVORCE, CHICAGO, March 10.—A settlement involving nearly £200,000 was made by Stanley Field, nephew of Marshall Field, upon his wife before their divorce was granted, according to reports. Field obtained the separation charging desertion. "I pleaded with her to come back after she left me in 1912," Field testified. "She said she would never, never return." MAN DEAF FOR THIRTY YEARS LISTENS IN ON RADIO. LONDON, Feb. 27.-William Simpson, 77, who has been deaf for thirty years, has successfully "listened in" on a radio concert, using the powerful threevalve instrument of his neighbor. Simpson's long silence was broken by a jazz band concert. The old 1 man was almost overcome by his experience. He laughed, cried l and then danced around like a child, i The head piece) of the radio was pressed' directly against Simpson's skull, thus transmitting the vibrations. RUSSIA ORDERING VAST STORES OF ARMS. LONDON, March B.—Russia to-day ordered millions of arms from Sweden, Germany and Czecho-Slovakia, as a rebel movement in which two divisions of Don Cossocks joined, gained gi'ound in fighting near Kieff, according to reports from Copenhagen and Helsingfors. Three million rifles, 120,000 machine guns and forty airplanes are reported to have been ordered as the Red army prepares for a possible spring drive or revolution. A rebel movement in the Donetz district spread to-day. The rebels took Wasilkov and moved on Kieff. ALL CAPETOWN AT~UNVEILING OF MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL. CAPETOWN, Feb. 26.—Table Mountain, the great eminence which overshadows the capital, was a scene of a unique ceremony on Sunday, when Premier Smuts, of the Union of South Africa, unveiled on the highest point a war memorial to the members of the Mountain Club, who fell in the world war. Thousands of people, including a num. Uer of notables, climbed 1 the mountain from all directions to converge at the place- of the unveiling. Tin; ceremony opened with a religious service, after which Premier Smuts' delivered a stirring address. Buglers sounded the last post and a reveille. The ceremony was concluded by pipers playing a lament. CREW ADRIFT ON ICE FLOE SAVED. ST. JOHN'S Nfld., March 6.—Adrift on an ice floe and facing momentary death, the crew of the three-masted British schooner A. B. Bartcaux, from Perth Amboy, N.J., was rescued by the Norwegian steamer Hauk, off the Newfounldand coast, after their vessel had founded, a. radio message received here said. The Hauk. fifteen days from Sydney to St. John's, coal-laden, took the* men from the ice after the crew's desperate signals attracted the attention of the Norwegian vessel. The crew of the Newfoundland schooner James O'Neill, salt-laden, from Oporto, were rescued oil Cape Race by the steamer Belvernon, which arrived here from Boston and Halifax. GUILTY OF FRAUDS UP TO £12,000,000. LAND AGENT LIABLE TO SENTENCE OP 80 YEARS. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 28.—W. E Stewart, president of the W. S. Stewart ' Land! Company, was found guilty of using the mails to defraud the public of £12,000,000 by a jury in Federal Court here to-day. The jury deliberated eighteen hours. Stewart was accused! in, connection with the sale of land in the "Magic Val- ! ley of the Rio Grande." The jury did not recommend a sen- , tencefl The maximum sentience providedl by law is eighty years. Notice of aopeal to the Supreme Court was filed by Stewart's attorneys. Unless fresh chills or colds are tackled at once, they may become more serious. Nozol is the beet known to use!