NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 40, 15 February 1913, Page 6

NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

Mr Newton King will hold a cattle sale at his Toko yards on Monday. Entries appear in another column.

Mr W. S. Y. A. Sparwath, the modern house furnisher, has some really fine writing chairs and desks, now on view, in his showrooms. Inspection is invited. There’s a note of warning to-day on page 1 with regard to the ordering of snit or costume for Easter, and Mr Butcliart in his advertisement has' something to say about the point at issue. To-day the first announcement of Cooper’s Bulbs is being made, which reminds one of Autumn, and Mr An- ( derson is advertising them on page '4 in his advertisement. Mr A. Rawles, draper, announces that ho is holding a great after-sea-son sale, to commence on Thursday next. Read his advertisement elsewhere. A notice to horse breeders appears in another column. A man to assist with farm work is wanted at once. To-day Mr Hopkihs is announcing a sale of China from Devon, Ireland, and Japan at 3d in the is off the marked prices, in his advertisement. Divine worship will be conducted in the Broadway Methodist Church to-morrow morning by Mr P. Wellington, and evening Mr E, C. Foster. A hearty welcome to all. No nominations having been received for the office of Councillor for the Pohokura Riding of the Whangamomona County, by the time duly appointed (February Bth), the Returning Office, Mr Alfred Coleman, again invites nominations to close on W ednesday, March sth. Messrs McMillan and Fredric make is known in their space that they make a specialty in plumbing and electrical work, and also that the 'famous Zealandia Range for which they are agents is perfect in every detail. Services at- Wesley Church will be conducted to-morrow morning and evening by Rev. W. Connell, of New Plymouth. All are' cordially invited. First reading of stations for Stratford: Revs. A. Reader and E. Bandy. Both ministers to reside in Stratford. x

“Reflection on Scott’s 111-fated Polar Expedition” will be the subject of the Rev. J. Pattison’s discourse on Sunday evening in the Presbyterian Church. x

The Whanga County Council publish a notice re the appointment of a dog-tax collector. Messrs Matthews, Bennett and Co. furnish particulars of their Tarata Sheep Fair to bo held on February 22nd.

The N.Z. L. and M. Agency Co. advertise entries for their Kohuratahi Cattle and Sheep Fair, which takes place next Wednesday.

The N Z.L. and M.A. Co. will hold their annual sheep fair at Hawera ou Friday, February 21st, at 1 p.m. Entries appear in another coluipn. , Messrs Carthew and Co., New Plymouth, offer for sale or exchange a 200-acre dairy farm and for lease for a term of eight years a 300-acre dairy farm. Particulars appear in another, column.

On. March 15th, Mr Newton King, who has been instructed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, New Plymouth, will sell a parcel of land containing 961 acres, more or less, situated on the Ross Road, near Tariki. Full particulars of the sale may be seen at the office of Messrs Roy and Nicholson, Solicitors, New Plymouth. Mr McMahon, herbalist, of Myrtle Crescent, Wellington,-is on a visit to Stratford, and may ho seen at the Crystal Coffee Palace for a week or two.

An important sale of high-class pedigree Jersey cattle is to be held by Mr Newton King on the showgrounds, New Plymouth, on Friday, February 28th, the day after the Taranaki Show, on account of Messrs C. F. G. Coulter, Charles Clarke, A. B. Munro, and other breeders. Particulars appeal in another column.

Mr Newton King will hold a sheep fair and cattle sale at Okau on Friday, February 21st. Entries appear in anther column.

Particulars of Mr Newton King’s Awakino cattle sale and sheep fair, which takes place on February 20th, ■appear in another coin mu. The man who is not in the trade is sometimes puzzled to know what is the difference between the customtailored suit and the chart order suit of a firm like f the Egmont Clothing Co. The manager tells in his new advertisement that the great difference is a saving of £2 or thereabouts in favor of the Egmont suits. Other differences are merely in the system of ordering and place of manufacture. Egmont stfits are cut and built by specialists, and wear the best, x

I Mr Bertram Maekcnnal, the Ansj tralian sculptor, has been commissioned to execute the King Edward memorial statue in Pall Mall. Mr C. Gore, Collector of Customs ' at Gore, has been transferred to Wai-j ran, and Mr Phantom, of the Hokitika Customs, to Christchurch. J hose changes, according to a Press Association message, are due to the offices at these centres being closed and the work being attended to by the local postmasters. Lord Knutsford, whose sudden illness is causing some anxiety, has already lived fourteen years longer than his grandfather, Sydney Smith. The author of “Peter Plymley” once made an elaborate calculation as to the way people apportion their time in the course of a long life. When he was 72, he remarked to a girl he met, “Do you ever reflect how you pass your life? If you live to he my age, which I hope you may, your life is passed in the following manner: An hour a day is three years. This makes 27 years sleeping, 9 years dressing, 9 years at table, 6 . years playing with children, 9 years walking, drawing, and visiting, 6 years shopping, and 3 years quarrelling.” The death is announced from Berlin on December 21st of the Princess Felix of Salm-Salm, who, before her marriage, was Miss Agnes Le Clerc. She was an American famous for her services to the wounded in the American,Civil War, for which she received the rank of a captain of the Federal Army. Later she was given the Iron Cross for hospital work in the IrancoPrussian war. She was at one time a rider in a circus. Prince Felix of Salm-Salm, a young Austrian officer who had been compelled to leave the army because of his debts, and who had gone to America to volunteer in The Civil War, fell in love with and married her.