NEWS AND NOTES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20326, 27 January 1936, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES

The Geraldine branch of the Labour Party will tender a complimentary social to Mr T. H. Langford at the Town Hall, next Monday at 8 p.m. Commencing at 1 p.m. to-day at Grantchester School, 300 Otlpua Road, A. N. Oakey and Co. will hold a clearing sale of household furniture and effects for Mr J. D. Buchanan, who is leaving for the North Island. Everything is in nice order and full particulars appeared in last Saturday’s Herald. The sale will definitely be held to-day, wet or fine Officers of the Monterey were relieved to learn on arrival at Auckland last week that the five persons who should have travelled by the vessel from Pago Pago but were prevented by being in the ill-fated motor-boat Tlafau, which was caught in the hurricane, had been saved. When the vessel left Pago Pago it was believed that they had been drowned. The officers said Pago Pago showed many evidences of the hurricane two days before the Monterey’s arrival, plantation owners had suffered extensive losses. In the township itself trees were stripped and blown down and verandahs and roofs damaged.—Press Association. An Essex (Iowa) farmer took out a gun, killed a calf and carefully, ever so carefully, explored the calf’s Inside. He had to be careful. The calf had eaten several sticks of dynamite which had not exploded. Varicose Veins. —We have jj.st received from London by parcel post, a fresh supply of new elastic stockings for varicose veins. They are thin and light in weight, specially strong and are Invisible under silk hose. Each stocking is specially tested before ■eaving the English factory and carries a guarantee from the maker. Note the frand, “Longlife.” Price 15'- a pair, all sizes. Sold only by E. C. Ayres. Ltd., chemists, 78 Stafford Street South. Timaru Catarrh.—Nasal catarrh is dangerous as well as unpleasant. It induces physical and mental dullness, undermines your health, and if neglected leads to serious throat troubles, deafness, bronchitis, and stomach catarrh. We have a remedy for this complaint, called Catarrhine, the prescription of a well-known London specialist. After using this remedy for a short time, the head noises, deafness, constant spitting, dizziness and catarrhal headaches all peimanently disappear. Price 3/6. one month’s treatment, from E. C. Ayres, Ltd., chemists, Stafford Street South, Timaru