THE "HAURAKI" ECLIPSED

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5655, 28 August 1896, Page 4

THE "HAURAKI" ECLIPSED

WAIHI TAKES A BACK SEAT.'

COOLGARDIE NOWHERE !

CALEDONIAN RECORD BROKEN!

35,840 otti>cbs to the ton. Work it out for yourself. Indian Chief Cigarettes, 35,840 ounces to the ton, and more satisfaction to the ounce than any other brand.

Scrae of the leading members of the Royal Academy have been severely criticised and taken to task for selling their creations to advertising firms, and even executing " works of art " to the specific order of "somebody's soap" or "general pills."

Punch has recently issued a clever skit on the advertising mania introduced between paragraphs of bond, fide interest, and publishes a specimen of what avg may expect in the novel of the future.

There is (says a London paper) undoubtedly a grievance in this respect. There is nothing more annoying, or more likely to make a man want to get up and jcick himself than to commence a subleader on the Chitral war, or the Salisbury foreign policy, and eventually find himself literally in a lather of Seagull's Moonlight Soap.

We quite agree with this (says another exchange), and hold such a practice to be quite indefensible. There is a time and a place for everything, and there is plenty <Jf scope for advertising without monopolising the reading matter of public interest. There is only one plea of justificacation, and that is when an article of sterling'value and indisputable quality, such aB Vanity Fair Cigarettes, is to be brought and kept before the public.

The elections are being generally discussed almost everywhere, the ladies are taking especial interest this year. It has been conceded, by heads of families, that Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds must be at the head of the poll as a home remedy. Sold by all grocers and Chemists. — [Adv'i\

If ational Association. — A well-attended meeting of the Council of the National Association was held at Morten's Buildings on Wednesday evening, the President, Mr W. Jacques, in the chair. A large number of new members were elected, and important correspondence was received from several of the branches in Canterbury. Eeports were made by several of the sub-com-mittees, and arrangements made for the ladies' meeting to be held next Thursday. Satisfactory reports were made regarding the preparations for the general election and the Council adjourned till next Thursday. . ■ ■■"