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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13807, 19 January 1909, Page 1

JOHN . KEMPTH3RNE LAND AGENT.

Extra Cheap Carpet Squares and Lace Curtains at Penrose's Summer Sale, 1 REVERSIBLE BEDROOM SQUARE, _ Green and Fawn, 6 Feet x 9 Feet. . 15 6 1-0 • 1 REVERSIBLE BEDROOM S^CTARK, Blue, with Light Bice Flowers, 6 15 6* 10 6 Feet x 9 Feet. V. . . . - ■■ 1 REVERSIBLE ARGYLE SQUARE, . of useful Floral Design, 9" Feet x 21 0 15 9 9 Feefcr- . . - ■ • £ I REVERSIBLE ARGYLE SQUARE, Fawn Ground/ Moss Flowers,- 18 6 .13 6 7 Feet 6 Inche6 x 9 Feet. 1 JUTE BRUSSELS-' SQUARE, Fawn Ground and Coloured Design, 9 Feet 30 0 22 6 x 9 Feet. . . . • 1 TAPESTRY CARPET SQUARE, also Gareen Grcroiid, bwfc with Fawn ( *" Border and Red Foliage, 9 Feet x 57 6 47 6 =l2 Feet. . • • . 1 TAPESTRY CARPET SQUARE, Fa«my Coloured : Ground, one tiiapt .. w«a- v t abwr tiifl Dost; well set t*p »n strong Floral Design;, thw Carpet is 66 0 45 0 specially reduced, 10 Feet 6 Incfaee x 12 Feet. . . • • • ■ 1 JDTE BRUSSELS CARPET SQUARE, Petw* BJu. Ground, YMfew FWers, _a Car- 30 0 £> U pet, xHwommwi, 9 Feet x 10 Feet 6 Inches. . • r - »■ 'j; . "WHITE . LACE CCRTAINS, 2* YDS. . Foratfer Prioe, 3s, 3s 6d, 3s lid. SALE PRICE, 2§ 6d, 2a lid, 3s 3d. YARDS LONG; gd, 3s lid, 4s 3d. ' sale PRICE, :2s 114, 3s 3d, 4s 6d. 3i YARDS LONG. Former Prices: " 6s 6d,-6s 6d, 8s 6d, 10s 6d. BALE PRICES: 4a 6d, 5s 3d, 6s lid, 8s 9d. 4 YARDS LONG. Former Prioes:: 8e 6d, 10s 6d, 12s 6d, 17s 6d SALE PRICES: 6a lid, 8s lid, 9s 9d, 13s 3d. PENROSE'S SUMMER SALE !

Motor Reliabilit Trial. ORDEAL OF TEST. IN the good old days, when compari- to that time. The Waipara and Pasons Tvereyinade by riile-of-thuinb hau rivers had to be crossed—a task and many a blatant reputation was every driver regarded with trepidation, made by dint of the good,, forceful and there was some fairly stiff hillblowing of its owner. But in -.»ese climbing to do. in the Weka Pass. This latter days the world has grown old " strict-testing" further reduced the and suspicious, and has a hasty sys- chances of all but a few leading' cars, tematic manner of demanding the wjiv Then on the fourth day canie tlie and the wherefore of any claim to crowning test of the trials —the, 113 supremacy made on behalf' of man, mile run to Akaroa and back. The horse or machine. If a nian thinks cars were driven at full-speed ' from that he can box, or row, or play ten- Barry's Bay to the Hill Top on the renis, or shoot better than anyone else turn journey, for the hill-climbing speed he; has to beat the man who has beaten test, and then journeyed over Gebbie's all the others before he becomes fam- Pass to Governor's Bay, and thence oils to any extent worth mentioning, -across Dyer's Pass, gliding down the arid a racehorse that can!t' win races steep slope to Christchurch. The route doesn't get its" photograph-! printed speaks for itself. It. was something very often, even if its owner runs a for .'a car to get through such a, jour-sporting-journal. The competitive test ney without a serious mishap. To is applied everywhere, and everything, get through it under trial conditions from 12iii naval guns to the 'latest without losing marks was an acliievebrand of cocoa, can be tested and ac- ment to ponder over. The 15 h.p. Talcurately compared with other articles bot, driven by Mr H. T. Adams, was of its kind. There is nothing like the awarded the champion prize of the con--co.mpetitive test to settle little dif- test. Another "15 h.p. Talbot, driven ferences of opinion regarding merit, by Mr A. Kerr, came a good second, •nd the poor old gullible British pub- while the 25-h.p. Talbot driven by Mr lie. that is so wept over and pitied'is F. N. Adams, scored third prize, eombeginning to look around and take no- pleting one of the most decisive victfce. It wants the guarantee «f the tor-ies. ever obtained in open compe--test on the things it buys, and as *iie tition by one make of car. The Talteets grow daily more severe the" result bo'ts won out on all-round reliability, is'. acceptable to only two- classes of hill-climbing qualities and economical people—-the public, and the people who, petrol consumption, notwithstanding as, the Americans have it, can " de-. fh a t the three cars were all heavily liy'er the goods." It is rather a good laden with passengers' on the- hill thing for the public that motor-cars c li m b. The Talbot team of . four (all are susceptible to tests. If it were not touring models) and tlie thirty-two so, it would be simply a matter of the other competitors put up a big fight, for most .plausible salesmen securing all the three principal prizes of the trials, the sales. There is hardly anything We have heard how Talbots swept the more plausible on earth thair a good board of .the big prizes, the rest really motor salesman. Honesty, beams trom didn't, signify much, but the Talbots his" bright blue eyes and the deep per- could not stop there. One of the 15sonal interest he takes in warning you h.p. carSj -in addition to winning the of'the countless bad points in -;.all the champion' prize, was given the first other cars is indeed affecting." . But pj-ize for the best four-cylinder car m you won't get a fair and square ap- the trial, a gold -medal for a non-stop piraisement of the good and-bad points ruJl) - a special trophy for reliability, of "any car from the salesman. The aiK j lastly the first prize for the lowest test's the thing. A test of motor-cars petrol consumption, covering 28 miles was made in Christchurch during to the gallon, at a cost of eigliteenChristmas week. It was organised by pence . What a record for any car! the Canterbury Automobile Associa- The 25-h.p. Talbot has still to be tion, and was the only official test for rec koned with, picking up a gold metouring cars conducted in New Zea- f or a ncm-stop run and a special land for the year. Cars from all over tropliy for reliability. The 10-16 h.p. New Zealand started. There- were T a lbot was the tail end of the team, thirty-six of them, out of thirty-seven gi, e . can ie sixth on the list of awards, entries, and they represented the best anc j was se cond only to the famous 15 that the cleverest mechanical minds of jj Talbot in the matter of economic Britain, France, and America could ' t rol consumption. The victory of -.e produce. The trials themselves were cars „-ill not surprise the makof a varying nature. On the first day ers 'p 0 them it will be only the dea fair average touring am was made, mo j ls t ra tion of an already proven fact, to Springfield and back, a distance of an o id story to them, and has 119 miles: There were no bad snags )jeell ; n every country where cars in "that iaunt. On the second day a are tested on their merits. The prize trip through Rakaia Gorge was made, w ; nn i no -"Talbots are now all sold. The the run covering 149 miles or so, and c]iamp ion 15 li.n. to J. Black, Esq., the hundred or so water, races which y/ a ; ma te; the second prize lo h.p. to had to be crossed gave the springs of c Gilchrist, Esq., Oamaru; the those cars the testing of their lives. th ' ird ize 25 li.p. car to J Buckley, Those precious marks continued to E Oamaru; and the 10-16 Chassis lose themselves in all directions, and to D. Matson, Esfl., Christchurch. there was more than one sad heart There is going to be a big demand for on the homeward run. The petrol con- talbots here in New Zealand in the sumption test was made on this day, near fllture —bigger even than in the. and.here again some of the most pro- pas t. Messrs Adams, Limited, the New mising cars failed to. establish a repu-' Zealand Agents, feeling generous after tation for cheapness in running. On the contest, are reducing the prices- of tlie third day there was a trip to Waiau Talbot cars,' so that everyone who can y erry and back, a distance of 166 afford to buy a first-class car will get miles. This was the heaviest trip up it —in the Talbot. ADAMS LIMITED, STAFFORD STREET TIMARU.