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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 6 December 1912, Page 2

Toniking's Linseed Emulsion, the superb and thoroughly approved popular remedy for all affections of the throat and lungs. Is 6d, 2s 6d, 4s 6d, everywhere

It has often been said that picture show's have seriously affected the bar trade of hotels-This is borne out toy a statement made by a bankrupt New Plymouth) hotelkeeper at a meeting of creditors last week. "For the first 18 months," he stated, "business was good, the takings for thatperiod averaging about £50 per week. Shortly after the expiry of that time two picture shows became established in) the town, and from the second , week of their establishment my re- „ turns dropped by about half. During the last six months they have aver- j aged about £25 per week." |

Virgil wrote—"CredeyEbcperto"— "Believe one who hiais tried it." If ha had only known it he might have been advising his readers to "try MarteH'a Bttandy.

A resident of Masterbon who has earned an unienviable reputation 1 as aj blackmailer, met with his just deserts on Saturday night last. It appears the contemptible individual recently accosted! a young man and.his fiancee talking a moonlight stroll n tilie park, anid made allegations) of imipa'opriety against them, ending vp by ordering the couple off the grounds unless an understanding was arrived at. The young man "tumbled" to the game, and adopting a bumble tonle asked) time in which) to pay a sum, and making, an appointment for Saturday night to hand over the money. The blackmailer turned up, also the young man, and four witnesses who hid in; the grandstand. The fiance had armed! himself with' ai hunting crop, and when the blackmailer asked for his "squaring" money, he got more than he bargained for in! the shape ;o£ cutting laelhes on thei face amd

head from » whip wieldted by a furious young main. Ajfter screaming for mercy, the contemptible individual ■was allowed to rise from the ground ■where he lay, and the last seen of him -was when fre was running "like the wind."