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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13484, 25 July 1907, Page 4

Tho call received by the Fire Brigade on Tuesday night was tho first since January 14th. The expenditure ©f the Wellington City Council last year totalled £254,953. The liabilities run to £1,876,896. There was fine weather in all parts of the colony this morning, except South Otago. The sea on this coast continues smooth. Captain Edwin telegraphed at noon to-day: — Moderate to strong westerly winds ; glass rise ; tides good ; sea considorable. , .. ' Pebple who can afford to buy their tea in five-pound parcels will, under the new tariff, get it duty free, but the poor man, who buys in small quantities, has to pay a duty of twopence per #-' Messrs. ''jE. Griffiths & Co. advertise for a stor^man.

' More,y & Son announce the last few days of tlieir sale. Prices aro cut to the roots, "as all seasonable' goods mujst

The annual meeting of the Taranaki Teachers' Institute will' be held at the. Education Board's Office next Saturday a^t 1.30 p.m. % . -' ■.- • . . Tenders are invited for running., a spall creamery. Particulars may be obtained from the Puniwhakau Da^ry. <^!oy., Stratford. , The Tukapa Club has secured the Theatre Rdyal'for its annual social on Thursday, August 22nd, the night of the Auckland-Taranaki Representative match. , ;■ , A good crowd atteiided the clearing sale of furniture on Wednesday at the Old Curiosity Shop, aud a substantial clearance wai made.' ' M;6ssrsV Wils(»W k <fef' Nolan were the auctioneers and report a good sale,. \ . In this issue will bo found particulars of. an auction sale of prize poultry to be held by Messrs. firbs.",^ under instructions from the Society, on Monday morning next at 9.30. We, are asked* to state that any exhibitor o*. outsider wh6se birds are not in the selling classes may submit birds for sale. , To illustrate the growth* of "*New Plymouth as a distributing centre we instance the . local, .wool, vjude and skin sale. A year, ago it was not. Qn Wednesday Messrs. Wilson & Nolan sold close on a thousand hides, besides a large number of sheepskins, tallow, etc. In fact their accommodation was taxed to the utmost. A large number of these hides go. to Australia, via Wellington, whereas, with adequate accommodation for ocean-going steamers they would be shipped direct. A lot of this produce comes fcom the tfiher- side of the mountain, and' it is apparent, to the most superficial observer that-; given proper harbour* accommodation, ; this exp&rt trade must increase, and further, as our back country becomes settled, a big wool export business, will be centralised here. In the future we see an export trade in these lines second only to our butter ; . ■> „,«.. „<r : • Elderly people suffer much from rheu- > matism, gout, sciatica, and lumbago. "Rheumo quiokly cures by driving out the excess uric acid from the blood.; All stores and chemists 'is (M and 4s 6d. You just try it -11