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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16769, 19 June 1920, Page 12

LAND AGENTS’ NOTICES. NEAR TE AROMA. DRIED MILK AND HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER. ACRES of freehold land, equal to the best in this famous district. This is not a high.y-improved farm ; if it was it would be worth £IOO an acrb to-day. It is partly improved, with about 80 acres of grass, small area in turnips, balance easy to plough. Small house, milking shed and engine-room. Twelve cows will pay your interest easily; this farm will do 25 to 30 cows in its present state. YOU can make it do 70 cows if you are a good practical farmer. To the man with £ISOO cash the owner will sell at £3B an acre. 665 1 Of) ACRES in the best part of the Thar- Valley, right in the midst of a progressive and rapidly-growing district. Concrete and metal roads, close to factory and school; 80 acres in grass and cr< ps, balance splendid rough feed ; permanent water; good six-roomed house, shed and machines; good herd of 38 milkers, bull, horse, cart, harness, and all necessary sundries. As a going concern, only £SO an acre. There is £6O an acre profit m this for the man who is not afraid of a bit of work. Our offer of over £IOO per acre for a farm near this one was refused. Get busy and wire us when you are coming. 664 R. COULTER & CO. “LIVE WIRE” AGENTS. TE AROHA. A GENUINE BARGAIN - WANGANUI. ACRES, freehold, about five miles by main road from ‘Wanganui; 'JuKJ handy to school, store, post office and factory. All in the best °f English grasses; all easy country, with 201) acres ploughable: well subdivided bv excellent fences into 11 well-watered paddocks. Beautiful homestead of eight rooms, with every modern convenience; all necessary outbuildings, including woolshcd, yards, etc. Carrying 1200 breeding ewes, besides about 100 cattle. PRICE £37 PER ACRE; £SOOO cash, balance arranged. For further particulars apply to — MESSRS. LONDON & CO., VICTORIA AVENUE WANGANUI.

NEWS BY CABLE AND WAIL COMPANIONSHIP IN DEATH. 1 Superstitions die hard, hut it may 5 surprise many to know that the bar- ; banc custom of slaughtering a deceased , chieftain’s retinue tUat they might ac- ) company liirn beyond the grave is still occasionally followed in .Loudon, though ’ only in a minor degree (says a Daily Chronicle writer). • Mr. Edward Lovett, in a recent lec- • ture, declared that he know of three ■ instances in recent years where a pet ■ bird had been killed and placed in a child’s coffin. In another case which hud come under his notice, an old maid’s cat had been killed and buried in the back garden at the moment of ' its mistress’s funeral. Mr. Lovett 1 linked these humble examples with the ceremony of leading an officer’s charger in his funeral procession, and the cus--5 stem still prevalent among gipsies of destroying a chief’s caravan after his " death. MOST POWERFUL MAN IN RUSSIA. Bolshevik newspapers declare that the most powerful man in Soviet Russia today is a Chinese or Confucian Buriat named Ipak Yen, who was formerly a barber’s assistant in Siberia, and was sentenced to bo hanged as a spy during 1 the Russo-Japanese war. For two ® months ipak has had working quarters > in the grand palace of the Kremlin, and r also lias a private palace at Moscow, where he keeps up great state, and parades on Sundays in gilded carriages 7 with his four Christian wives. ’ The orthodox Communists bitterly cri- • ticise Ipak and his ways, and accuse him of having accumulated 3,500,000 roubles (nominally £350,000) in six 1 months. Ipak owes his power, it is f stated, to his own industry, insinuating ? ways, moderation, cunning, and ability to, keep on good terms with different Earties. He is on first-rate terms with enin, who calls him “My Celestial,” r and who takes no important step with- ’ out consulting him. MORE SHIPS FOR ATLANTIC TRAVEL. I LONDON, April 26. Mr. J. B. Whyte, British Govern- ' ment director of snipping for the United States, has just completed an ' important mission to England for the 1 purpose of increasing the facilities for American arid Canadian travel in Europe. "The British Ministry of Shipj ping and ship owners,” Mr. Whyte ■ said to-day, “have combined in an j agreement to expedite the completion of new ships and the repair of others wRh the special object of transporting the greatest possible number of trans-At-lantic passengers to Europe and unexpected resources will become available from June onwards.” SURGEON’S NEW DRUG. In the early days of surgery, before 3 the discovery of anaesthetics, an oper- ' ation of any kind was always accompanied by dreadful pain, and in these , days it is difficult to realise what the 1 unfortunate’ patient must have then Q.REAT JPALL IN ]JOUSE PROPERTY. WE HAVE DECIDED TO REDUCE } THE PRICE FOR ONE WEEK ONLY. ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER AVAILABLE. I ; TJOUSE of Four Rooms, on splendid A-*- quarter-acro section, only four inin- ■ utos from town. Price £550 cash. Sole ; agents, 1 WIVE-ROOMED House, with gas, 1 A. electric light and modern conveni- • ences; eighth-acre of laud; handy to town. Price £700; cash £250. Sole i agents. ' p 00D Four-roomed House with cighth- ? aero of land, only six minutes from post office. Price £600; cash £2OO. Sole agents. ! dTX-ROOMED Dwelling with all con- [ venlenoes; eighth-aero of land, very , nice section; about four minutes from - town. Price £800; cash £6OO. TJEAL Fine Dwelling of five rooms, -*-Y with every convenience; only been built five years; nice eighth-acre section, laid out with garden, concrete paths, hedge all round; lovely situation. See tin’s and you’ll buy. Price £1150; cash £466. Sole agents. POVEGROVE AND piCHBON. LAND AND STOCK AGENTS, CURRIE STREET, NEW PLYMOUTH.