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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13812, 25 January 1909, Page 1

JOHN KEMPTHORN LAND AGENT.

Some Advantages you may deiive at the Carpet & Linoleum Sale at PENROSE'S. Velvet Pile Carpets. We have 14 Keally Very Choice Velvet Pile Carpets which are well worth anyone's . while to examine; they are in every way above the average both in Design and in Quality, to say nothing of the advantage our Reduced Prices places within your reach. 1 CAMBRIDGE VELVET PILE CARPET SQUARE, Fawn and Tan CeK oured Ground, Choico Floral De- 100 0 .4 0 sign; a most excellent C»rp»t, 9 Feet i 12 Feet. ': . • • • 1 REAL CAMBRIA VELVBT PILE _ CARPET SQUARE, w Feet x 12 100 0 m u Feet. . • • • • 1 REAL CAMBRIA VELVET PILE CARPET SQUARE, a ©«fJ»|-K>oßi ..sT effective, 9 I*eet x 10 Feet 6 Inofaoe. . . ••■■»..■• • ALSO SAME QO-ALITY AND SffiE; CAMBRIA CARPET in MesaG««n- Q pete we've ever had is Steck; 9 Feet x 10 Feet 6 lacheß. . • 1 GEORGIAN AXMINSTER VELVET PtLE CARPET SQUARE, aM Red shade of Red ,an ideal JDramig-reom Cttrpet, 9,Feet xj9.Fe*t. . • • 1 VELVET PILE CARPET SQUARE a G«*» G«wod Oarpet, w*£ n*»* Q Coio»red Flowers, one of the beat o o o * * Carpets ever handied for the money, 9 .Feet x 9 Feet. ..-...-.-. • 1 REAL GEORGIAN VELVET PILE CARPET SOjUARE, predomwsan't Cokyor Green; choicest Floral De- „ , sign, "a*iT of tfaese Georgian Carpets 81/ b i ov. wffl last* a lifetime, 10 Feet 6 laches x 10 Feet 6 Inches. 1 REAL GEORGIAN AXMINSTER VELVET PILE CARPET SQUARE, Dark Crimson Ground, refcevod- with Geometrical Design in. Lighter Red, 7 ' one of the; best, "9 Feet xlO Feet fa Inches. . 706 6 0 ;JiW*»l CARPET SALE !

Motor ORDEAL OF TEST. ""~N the good old days, when' compari- to that time. The Waipara and Pasons were made by hau rivers had to be crossed —a task and many a blatant reputation was every driver regarded with trepidation, — A<> rii n t of tiie good, forceful and there . was some fairly stilt hillui its' owner. But in -..ese climbing to do in the \Veka Pass. This i—-_ j.L_ ij i.„„ ™-™»- n o [d "strict-testing" further reduced uhe S) ana nas a naaiy sys-'chances of all but a few leading cars. tematic manner of demanding the wny Then on the fourth day came the 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 man 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 re-1 nis, or shoot better than anyone else turn journey, for the hill-climbing speed he has to beat .the man wild has beaten test, and then journeyed over Gebbie's | all the others before he becomes fain- Pass to Governor's Bay, and thence I ous to any extent wortli mentioning, across Dyer's Pass, gliding down the and a racehorse that can't win races steep slope to Christ-church. 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-1 sporting journal. The competitive test ney without a. serious mishap. To] is applied everywhere, and everything, get through it under trial conditions j from 12in naval guns to the latest_ without losing marks achievebrand of cocoa, can be tested and ment to ponder over. The 15 h.p. Talcurately compared with other articles hot, driven by Mr H. T. Adams, was of its kind. There is nothing like the awarded the champion prize of the concompetitive 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, and the poor old gullible British pub- while the 25 h.p. Talbot driven by Mr lie that is so wept over and pitied is J\ N. Adams, scored third prize, cornbeginning to look around and take no- pleting one of the most decisive victice. It wants the guarantee of ttie tories ever obtained in open competest on the things it buys, and as ~ue; tition by one make of car. The Taltests grow daily more severe the result hots 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- that the three cars were all heavily liver the goods." It is rather a good ] a( j e n with passengers' on the hill thing for the public that motor-cars c ij m b. Talbot team of four (all are susceptible to tests. If it were not touring' models) and the thirty-two so it would he simply a matter of the other competitors put up a big fight for most wlausible salesmen securing all t he three principal prizes of the trials. the-sales. There is hardly anything We have heard how Talbots swept the more plausible on earth than a good |j oar( j 0 f the big prizes, the rest really motor salesman. Honesty beams from didn't signify much, but the Talbots his bright blue eyes and the deep per- CQuld not stop there. One of the 15sonal interest he takes in warning-you h cargj in a( jdition to winning the of the countless. bad pomts m all the tampion prize, was given the first other cars is indeed affecting. But ze f or the best four-cylinder car in you won't get a fair and square ap- trial a gold medal for a non-stop praisement of the good and bad points ruQ a specia i trophy for reliability, of anv car from the salesman. lfce and j ast i y the first prize for the lowest test's the thing. A- test of motor-cars petrol consump ti o n, covering 28 miles was made in Christehurch during to the-gallon, at a cost of eighteenChristmas week. It was organised by pence _ What a record for any car! the .Canterbury Automobile Association, and was the only official test for rec ]j orie <l with, picking up a gold metouring cars conducted in New Zea- £ or a non - s tor> run and a special land for the year. Cars from all over tro phy for reliability. The 10-16 h.p. New Zealand -started. There were rp albot was t he tail end of the team. thirty-six of them, out of thirty-seven g be came s i s th on the list of awards, entries, and they represented, the best an( j was seco nd only to the famous 15 that the cleverest mechanical minds ot j Talbot in the matter of economic Britain, ; France, and America could 't ro l consumption. • The victory of produce. The trials themselves were T lbot cars w jh not surprise the makof a varying nature. On'the first day . Tq them it - w iH:be only the deft 'fair touring run was made, monstrationo {. an already proven fact. to ; Springfield and back,-a distance ot old storv to them, and has 119': miles.-' There were no-bad snags d {n e country where cars in that ; jaunt. ■On the second- day . tested 0 n their merits. The prize tfp.ihi«u^- ; -B«kwa Gorge-wasjiwde £^f*_ Talbota are now all sold. The the run covering-149 miles so and ° ls(h to j Black E the hundred or so water races which te .' the second prize 15 h.p. to had to he crossed gave the springs, of Gilchrist, Esq., Oamaru; the those cars, the testing of their, lives, third'prize 25 h.p. car to J. Buckley, Those precious marks continued to ■„ ' Oamaru; and the 10-16 Chassis lose themselves in all directions,- and , Matsonj Esq., Christehurch. there was {more than one .sad heart. rpj ]ere j s <r o i ng to be a big demand for on; the homeward run. -The petrol eon-. Tal j, otg j lere j n New Zealand in the sumption itest was made _on- tins: day, - ]iear fu t llre —bigger even than in the andhere again some of the-most pro- gt - Messrs Adams, Limited, the New mising cars failed to establish a remi-' Zealand -Agents,;feeling generous after tation for cheapness in running/ On p co „t es t are reducing the prices of the third day there was a trip to Wain n carg> s0 that everyone who can Ferrv and back, a distance of 160 afford to buv a first-class car will get miles. This was the heaviest trip up it _ in the Ta]bot STAFF3RD STREET TIMARU.