ONLY ONE MORE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 40, 19 February 1900, Page 3

ONLY ONE MORE DAY.

Of course everybody is talking about the London Times' withdrawal of its offer of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It was to be expected that such a literary enterprise as this has proved to be was likely to create considerable comment, but it could hardly be expected that such a liberal offer would be held open indefinitely. Indeed residents of New Zealand have been extremely fortunate in having been i able to secure this splendid work upon such favourable terms and prices. The end of the sale is now announced, and to-morrow will be the last day. We understand that the sets allotted for distribution in New Zealand are almost exhausted, and this makes necessary the withdrawal of The linns, oiler. The sale of the great work in Great Britain through The Times a year ago proved the reigning sensation in London. Over twenty-five thousand persons availed themselves of the offer at that time. Taking population into account {Tim Times' offer extended to the whole of Great Britain) the sale in New Zealand has been even greater in proportion, and by the time ail New Zealand orders now in hand have been filled the New Zealand salee will have proportionately equalled, or excelled, the sale of this magnificent work in Great Britain. There is yet time for you to be included in the list of fortunate subscribers to the Encyclopedia Bri-

tannica, provided you avail yourself of the opportunity at once. For one day more any resident of New Zealand may secure this great home library at half-price to be paid at the easy rate of only one guinea a month, The complete library of twenty-live volumes is delivered a'l at one time upon a preliminary payment of only one guinea to be followed by sixteen further payments of one guinea each after all , the volumes hw been received by the subscriber. A Sapplament to the Ninth Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is now in course of preparation, and will, as soon ad possible, be offered ' for sale by The Times. It is primarily ' desigtyetj for the benefit of purchasers ' of The Tinm Reprint, and it will be \ supplied to them, not only at Q, lower ' price than that at which it will be obtainable by the public at large, but also before it is ottered to the general i public, who will have to wait for their copies until after the purchasers of T!10 Times Reprint have been supplied.

fl FATfll. FIGHT. THE EESULT OF A BOW OVER A GAME OF DICE. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] Gbeymooth, February 17. This morniog, about 1.30, a row occurred at the Union Hotel over a game of dice. Six men were playing. Itappears that thedi»putants,P. Uarew and W. Martin, called each other liars, aud adjourned to the street to fcoiAic Liiti matter with their lists. Both v. ere the worse for liquor, tiiough not helplessly drunk. After a few minutes' fighting Carew suid he had had enough, and the contestants separated. Carew afterwards went out of the hotel, feeling unwell, and as he did not return within half-an-hour his mates went ta loos for him. Xhey found him in an unconscious cqpdition a couple of hundred yards away, lie was prostrate on the footpath. Medical aid was immediately sent for, but Carew did not regain consciousness, and died about E o'clock. Deceased was a single man, a miner, and a native of Ireland, and was aged about 30, At an inquest to-day, the medica evidence was to the elt'ect that deatt was caused through fracture of th< .skull, but it was improbable that ii could have been duß to a blow from f ■fet, w«a likely that the fractal

■ took place through deceased's head coming in contact with the pavement i or stones on the road. The jury, after hearing evidence all day, returned a verdict that deceased met his death through fracture of the skull, but that there -was not sufficient evidence to say what was the cause. The police arrested Martin, and charged him with murder, after the inquest. He was admitted to bail—two sureties of £SO and himself in £IOO. The case comes on again on Tuesday.