CHRISTMAS, 1912.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 18 December 1912, Page 4

CHRISTMAS, 1912.

What better than a nice camera for tho holidays? Tho very latest, tho best, and tho cheapest. Just unpacked direct from manufacturers. Get it now at Gower's Pharmacy.

Free dark room. Free instruction Alt. A. Gower, Chemist, Avenue.

The cooking exhibition at Gibson's ; and Peterson's should Jjttiiatet many j ladies this afternoon. Free afternoon tea is provided,- cooked .by the Perfection stoves.

In order that employers may make the necessary arrangements to enable their employees to attend, it is officially notified that the annual oanip of the Seventh Regiment will .he held from 18th to 26th April, 1913.

Among the "cor£." which jwe are reluctantly compelled to hold over for want of space, are the Convent prizelist, and the roports of the Borough Council meeting and the laying of the foundation stone of the new Lodge Mou-toa-at Gonville. •"

Lord Liverpool will be entertained at a. ipublic luncheon aft the Auckland Town Hall today, and will leave jj^the evening (probably- about srx o'clock) ;by special train for Wellington. About one hundred invitations have been issu.ed for the luncheon. Captain Shaw, A.D.C. to Lord Liverpool, arrived by the Malnira to-day.—Press Association. A reminder is given that applications (in writing) for ths billeting of firemen attending the forthcoming conference and demonstration, to be held on Cook's gardens from the 15th to 22nd January, 1913, close to-aiight at nine o'clock. Applications may be addressed to Superintendent G. Soriggens, 28, Guyton Street, . Mr. Lloyd Jones (cave H. I. Jbnes and Son), and the secretary, P.O. box 15.

"The New Magazine" for November, 6d., is before us. The art supplement with pictures of the "Play of the Month" is as good as ever. The stories—by Jacques Futrelle (the "Thinking Machine), Grenville Hammerton, Captain Shaw. Randolph Lichfleld, Andrew Soutar and others, -are of the intensely thrilling order, and are all pieces of fine writing. There is a long complete tx&Yel in the number entitled "The Thrall of Gold," by Anthony Sutherland. The "Woman's Kingdom," containing, as it does, " Hints for the Dressmaker and Suggestions as to Fashions," cookery iten >- dainty neckwear illustrations, etc., etc.. makes this magazine particularly acceptable to the fair sex. Whether men or women readers take this magazine, they will fin<f plenty of special interest in it, and will consider it wonderfully clieap for the nimble sixpence. It is on sale at all 'booksellers.