NEWS AND NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18613, 8 July 1930, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

A meeting of all interested in inventions will be held in the Foresters’ Hall to-night at 7.30.

The annual drive of the Optimists’ Club for left-off clothing, etc., was inaugurated yesterday, and is meeting with a ready response. Any parcel, no matter how large or small, will be collected if the Y.M.C.A. is notified. The heed is urgent. All parcels will be collected on Saturday afternoon.

The Orange Lodges of Timaru will hold their annual July concert and dance in the Scottish Hall to-morrow night. The church parade will be held to Trinity Church on Sunday.

Rugby is played in New York. Last winter Mr J. O. J. Malfroy, a former Wellington and New Zealand University representative, who is now at Columbia University, got • together a Rugby team, which included several Oxford and Cambridge players. Malfroy’s team played and beat a side from Yale University, and they also played a ’ draw with the United States Marines. The New York papers gave lengthy reports of the games. One paper gave the match against Yale a column and a half, making a comparison between the American football game and Rugby. In describing Malfroy, the critic said: “The slightly bald blond with the hawk nose was the fastest thing on the track.”

A family record hard to beat can be claimed by Mr and Mrs John T. Snowden, formerly of Brightwater, but now residing in Grove Street, Nelson. They are the parents of eleven children, the eldest of whom is 62; there are 49 grandchildren, and 19 greatgrandchildren, comprising four generations, a total of 81 all told, all living. Both Mr and Mrs Snowden came to Nelson in the early days of the settlement. Mr Snowden was 90 years of age last March, while Mrs Snowden is several years his junior. Mr Snowden, despite his years, is frequently seen about the town, and enjoys good health.

Modern conditions having thrust the old simile of the bull in a china shop into the limbo, “literary gents” will welcome a new one, says L.O.M. in the “Auckland Sun.” It is: “A horse in a creche,” and its use is justified by a recent happening in the Karitane Home, Christchurch. Alarmed by a sudden noise of thumping and infantile woe in one of the wards, a nightnurse found a large and excited horse plunging about on the polished floor of the verandah. Inside the open French windows which give access to the place were 17 babies, all doing their best to disconcert the intruder in that Wide-mouthed, lusty way babies have. Not being trained to deal with equine emergencies, the nurse secured assistance, and the horse was led out of the home and across the road. In the mornjng it was still there, and it was dead. Parents who have paled before the midnight serenades of one or even two infants will have every sympathy for the poor, stricken beast. Husband Startled.—Mr B. gave his wife 10/6 to buy him a shirt. She came home with a shirt, a tie. sox and half a dozen handkerchiefs, all for 10/6 —she’d been to Cameron’s sale Timaru Atten-Shun! Eyes front! The event of the season is here— Cameron’s mid-winter stocktaking clearaway sale. You will see some of the most outstanding bargain offers of the year. You are advised to call early Early planting means success. Roses, fruit trees, hedge plants, forest trees, and all perennial plants can go out now. Sow seeds of peas, broad beans, lettuce, carrbt and onion. Plant cabbage and cauliflower plants. P. G. Allen, seed merchant, Stafford St THE TREATMENT Of RHEUMATISM During the winter months, particularly, the system is more susceptible to rheumatism and kindred troubles. Ayres’ Rumatox is a scientific remedy, specially prescribed for the treatment of rheumatism, gout, etc. It gives instant and permanent relief to the worst cases, reduces the swelling and by eliminating the uric acid from the system, restores the body to health and vigour. It is equally effective for sciatica, lumbago, gravel, etc; 2/6 and 4/6 bottle. E. C. Ayres’, Ltd., Chemists, Stafford Street, Timaru

SUCCESSFUL REMEDY FOR CATARRH. No longer is there any need to suffer the pain and embarrassment of nasal catarrh. Catarrhine offers a quick and effective relief for this unpleasant malady. When you use Catarrhine, the soothing vapours penetrate instantly to the seat of the trouble. . . . soothing and healing the inflamed and irritated membranes of the nose and throat, and dislodging congestion. Ayres, the chemist, gladly recommends Catarrhine, prepared by a noted London specialist. Buy a 3/6 bottle to-day from E. C. Ayres’, Ltd., Chemists, Stafford Street, Timaru R. P. Carter, 290 Stafford Street, specialist in curtains and holland blinds, is showing a selection of floral silk nets suitable for frilled valences, also silk shadow tissues, slub repps, taffetas for flat pelmet’s. We design, make and fit these attractive window draperies at the lowest prices The appeal of cut crystal is irresistible and universal. Beautiful in itself, it adds both lustre and loveliness to everything with which it is associated. A new shipment is now on view in Porter’s window and showroom. This big importing firm has just opened up the very latest in tall vases, sugars and creams, large bowls, goblets, decanters, tumblers, whisky jugs, wine glasses, champagnes and confectionery bowls. An Inspection of this beautiful cut crystal is cordially invited at Porter’s.... EXPRESS TRAIN TIMETABLE. DEPARTURES FROM TIMARU. For Christchurch—Express trains 4.18 a.m. (Mon., Wed., Fri.), 1.54p.m, 4.34 p.m. daily. For Dunedin and Invercargill—Express trains 1.30 a.m. (Mon., Thurs., Sat.), 11.33 a.m., 3.46 p.m. (Dunedin only) daily. ARRIVALS AT TIMARU. From Christchurch 1.23 a.m. (Mon.,, Thurs., Sat.), 11.25 a.m., 3.38 p.m. daily. From Invercargill 4.10 i a.m. (Mon., Wed., Fri.), 1.46 p.m. (from Dunedin) 4.26 p.m. daily.

Another dance and card party will be held at South School to-morrow evening. Good music, good floor, good supper. Milk is to be sold in Copenhagen by the foot, following important experiments at a Danish farm. It has been found that when the natural water is withdrawn from cows’ milk the remaining pulpy substance can be rolled into sheets similar in appearance to paper. Special machines have been made to carry out this rolling process on sanitary lines, and the milk becomes so highly concentrated that it is a food in itself (says a Copenhagen correspondent of the* “Sunday Express”). When required in liquid form it is simply dissolved in boiling water and its strength gauged by the amount of water added. (At Cambridge, England, butter is sold by the yard. It is rolled into yard lengths about three-quarters of an inch thick. Three pieces each about li inches long, with a small loaf of bread and some milk form the daily “commons” of university men.) Thomsons’ Optimistic Sale opens at 10. They will either bury Thomson or burst him with goods from all over the world. 50 hearthrugs, CzechoSlovako 5/6, 6/11; organdie muslins from France 2/3 at sale; black 54in. Italian from Devonshire 1/9; Baldwin’s wools, hundreds other things do not need urgently, but will not give Thomsons’ people a spell—seem to think money no object. The coats are half price—good all wool things with fur collar many of them; others at red prices. A few in windows 11/9, 14/6 for children’s; one expensive looking coat 32/6. Really absurd, but the way it is done. Purposed particulars about dressmaking room, but think “Herald” will grumble at setting for money. However! Wool crepe chene frocks, nine best, best shades, 42/6 complete. Repp the same (more Min. stuffs from Leigh Mills, Yorks, yesterday); lovely warm velour coats, best everything, 62/6, kasha wool frocks 39/6; Celanese silk, any colour, splendid washing, 57/6, evening silks, moire effect, quite latest, 42/6 complete, all to measure. Not a dr 'ssmaker like Thomsons’ anywhere. These and others. Lovely goods. Equal to presentation frocks. A sale is a sale. At Thomsons’ heavy flannelette sheets 9/11 a pair—not single