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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5285, 15 June 1895, Page 8

There is one very good explanation of the fact that great; citie3 almost invariably grow towards the west. As regards Europe, the prevailing wind* are from the west and south west, so that these portions of the towna are brighter, cleaner, and healthier than the eastern. In a remote village kirk in Argyllshire last summer a stray tourist was electrified toy the request from the pulpit, " Will the young men at the buck of the kirk kindly •moke on account of the midges ?" They complied with alacrity. Aidon £ the Itotioea duly given out in a m«tfcer-of-fact way on the same morning ran this one : ° The kirk will be at twelve o'clock next Sabbath, weather and midges permitting.' Soap deferred znaketh the dirt stick. Try Silkstone. 1707 W. Stbanos and Co.'s good tailoriug tor fife. style and value is unequalled. BOUOWA 'B PIIXS AHP OIHTMBNT.— WhiIst the Inhabitants ? our (rreat oiti-fl suffer from the •fleots of overcrowding and all its attendant evils 'both physios! and moral, the more robust and •nergetio emigrant will in his tnrn be liable to j suffer inn to new home from the want of ready | •Vill and the groat medical resonrcea of liia native j land always at command. Thebes 'ad vice a friend i oan gh* ie for him to take ft enpoly of those well known remedies as part of bis outfit, r rbyatten« tion to the easily understood &n4 yet ample directions wbiob accompany eacn box and pothowiil never be at fault when taken ill or under any tflTerieeaßitury oondittoag of life.— LApytj