NEWS AND NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18847, 9 April 1931, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES.

At 2 p.m. to-morrow, at their salerooms. Strathallan Street, A. N. Oakey and Co. will submit to auction, under instructions from the Registrar of the Supreme Court, 7-roomed plastered house and section, containing 2 roods 10 perches, situated 24 Rhodes Street. At 2.15 p.m. to-morrow, at their salerooms, the firm will also offer, under instructions from the mortgagee, section of 31 perches and 4-roomed cottage thereon, situated 5 Theodocia Street. The annual meeting of the Timaru Miniature Rifle Club will be held on | the Club’s range to-night at 7.30. On Saturday next at 2 p.m., Morton and Co., Ltd., will sell on account of Radcliffe’s, Ltd., at the corner of Beswick and Stafford Streets, the whole of the stock-in-trade and office furniture. As this is a genuine closing I down sale, it affords the public a won- ! derful opportunity of buying this highclass furniture at their own prices. Goods are now on view Attention is directed to the Railway advertisement appearing in this issue announcing the altered running of the mail and express trains from 13th I April. For some reason which has never satisfactorily been explained, wckas practically disappeared from the back country of Canterbury twelve years ago, states the “Christchurch Times” For very many years they had been far from plentiful, but suddenly they became markedly scarcer. With the object of increasing the number of the birds in the province, the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society made arrangements to import several pairs from the Chatham Islands, and these arrived by the Tees at the end of last week. The birds will be liberated in the hills round the Rakaia River and in other parts where they were once plentiful. The Fairview Tennis Club will hold a dance to-night. ’Bus arrangements are advertised | The news of the terrible earthquake ! in New Zealand has shocked the country greatly and caused much anxiety among those who have relations in that beautiful Dominion, states a London journal. For some reasons earthquakes are regarded as catastrophes that occur in distant foreign lands, yet one hundred years ago there was a succession of earthquake shocks in Scotland, and an old physical geog- \ raphy records that England has experienced as many as 255 earthquakes, most of them very minor shocks. There was a serious earthquake in England in the winter of 1750, after a very hot summer, followed by a second a month later. The prophecy of a third terrified the populace, and a clever manufacturer invented and sold many I "earthquake gowns,” designed for those who meant to sit up all night I out of doors waiting for a shock, showj ing that enterprise and advertisement are not entirely modern. The last ser- | ious earthquake was in April, 1884, | when Colchester suffered severely.

New Zealand’s occupancy of the Empire Marketing Board’s shop at Birmingham, which was carried out under the direction of the High Commisisoner, proved a great success so far as publicity for the Dominion produce is concerned. New Zealand occupied the shop for a fortnight, following on Great Britain. The displays in the windows and in the interior shop were carried out by the High Commissioner’s publicity and exhibition section, in conjunction with the New Zealand produce boards. Some of the windows devoted, also, to showing the tourist and sporting attractions of the Dominion. In the fortnight the following samples were sold by the staffs of the produce boards concerned: 12,124 butter samples at 2d, value £lOl/0/2; 15,047 cheese samples at Id, value £62 T 3 11; 4312 honey samples at 6d, value £lO7/15/-; total, 31,483 samples of a value of £271/9/1. This means that through this enterprise New Zealand products were introduced in the period named into over 30,000 homes, and their quality tested. In addition, a large number of inquiries were directed where they could purchase New Zealand tinned tongues, toheroas, dried milk, and other goods.

Evening wear, a fine display at Thomsons’ of double width satins, in all the favourite shades; hardly been able to get costs worked out, but know they are quite cheap, although nice, 3/11 to 4/6 a yard; heavy silk georgettes, similar shadings, 6 to 9 lengths of each, about b/6 to 5/11; will have them arranged this r ovennm. other effects since commencement of season, 1/4J to 10/11; evening flowers equally necessary, will all be shown to-day in Miss Struthers’s side; evening velvets, too, 1/lli to 12/6; hose, new browns, etc., 2/11 to 8/11, gloves in suede, kid, silk, art silk and velvet dresses, new indications, the mirror of efficiency and beauty. Coats in tweed, face cloth received for ladies’ and misses’; also in fleck tweed, children’s 14/6 to 29/6; ladies’ 35/6 to £4 17s 6d new goods. .. The wiseacre who said that there’s nothing new under the sun, can be excused for his mistake, for he had never seen Cameron’s. Th : s progressive outfitters for men’s and beys’ clothing is fairly overflowing with new things in the matter of clothing, mercery, underwear for autumn and winter. A visit to this bright, brisk store will prove a revelat : on of quality, variety and low prices. If it’s new, Cameron’s has it..., CHRONIC CONSTIPATION. Sir Arbuthnot Lane, the famous British physician, says that people with a pure blood stream will live much longer than those whose blood is poisoned by the toxins caused by constipation. Boils, pimples, indigestion, gastric ulcers, appendicitis, are often due to chronic constipation. The use of harsh purgatives gives only a temporary relief; they are habit-forming and dangerous. If you are constipated take Laxigen. This is a natural, gentle laxative that will restore the bowels to their natural wave-like movement Laxigen is obtainable at 2/6 bottle from E. C. Ayres, Ltd., chemists, Stafford Street South, Timaru.