A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11646, 25 August 1905, Page 5

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

This is the last -week of Special Stocktaking Bargains at. White's Drapery Warehouse. ' . r .i-.i E. H, White and Co. are now busy calling down stock and all oddments are being thrown out at' ridiculous prices. -Mr White's policy has always been to clear out go\jds at any price rather than allow any accumulations. .R. H. White and Co. next week commence to opemup spring shipments ex s.s. Tongariro and Athenic, so that this is the last week for stocktaking bargains. 'Three lines are Having their, prices cut down 'to almost nothing this week at White's— Millinery— Fur Necklets — Jackets. A whole' lot of Jackets are now thrown out for sale at 4s lid, all sizes in girls' and small "women's. Pur Necklets thrown out' in lots: — Lot 1, all at 4s 6d; Lot 2, all at 2s lid; Lot X, all at 5s lid; Lot 4, all at 7s lid; Lot 5, "all- at 10s 6d. Every one worth two to three times the money. Trimmed hats, 6s lid, 7s" 6d, 10s 6d. Cd*me at once; this ia your last chance. We mean to sell the whole lot within a wwlc.- T?.. H. Wtttto and Co.

Potatoes ar& selling at 18s per bag -at Waipawa. In Palmerston the price is 17b 6d per sack.

A first offending drunk was fined 5s and costs at the Police Court this morning. A prohibition order was also issued against another man.

A few days ago a Westport merchant wired to three different provinces for potatoes, receiving the in each case that none were obtainable..

There was a slight earthquake felt at Feilding on Wednesday night at 7.22, and two shocks of earthquake were felt at Marton the same evening — one at 7.20 and the second at 11.30.

According to the New Zealand Herald, the inmates of the Veterans' Home have made arrangements for present-ing Lady Constance Knox, daughter of Lord Ranfurly, with a wedding present as a 'token of their esteem.

The winter term of the Boys' College came, to an end yesterday, and the boys returned to their 'homes for a month's holiday. r The Girls'^College " term was tohave come to an end to-day, and the girls will have a three weeks' holiday.

The Morning Post, according 1 to a Lon-, don cable; says it is undoubted that the Motherland is in general sympathy with the idea of Federal supervision of the State's liabilities and the non-borrowing policy* favoured by the Federal Labour party. Not for many years have Australian material prospects been so promising.

"You'll never make the Maoris work in this world," remarked a member of the Masterton Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting on Friday. "They're not fools enough for that."- "Well, doesn't Itfew; Zealand belong to them?" said another meirfber. "We're only interlopers, anyway," concluded the member. — Age.

The Austrian-Lloyd steamer Trieste, says a Vienna despatch of June 29, which has just arrived at Fiume, reports that 203 Turkish soldiers, deserters from Yemen, boarded the" vessel' at Aden. Sixty-six of them jumped overboard during the voyage along the Red. Sea, when the vessel was near the coast, fearing that they would be handed over to the Turkish authorities.

Mr Samuel -Vaile,' the railway reformer, objects to workmen's homes schemes. They mean, he says, that the workers must live on certain patches. of. land, separated from other sections of society, and thus a class distinction is at once set up, and the workers object to • that. He claims that the true solution of the workmen's homes difficulty is cheap railway rates, so that the workman can live, at a distance from his work if necessary.

The biologist -of the Department of Agriculture, Wellington, is expecting consignments of ladybirds from Australia, in order to check the- ravages done to "blue gum plantations in the south of the South Island by a scale insect. It was tried this time last year to collect ladybirds in Australia for expdrt to New Zealand, but the season .was unfavourable. Better results are expected.

The Manga weka Settler says: — From Mr W. J. Culver we have 'received a pamphlet entitled, "Whatt has been dono for labour since 1894? A reply to the charge that 'theLiberal Party' in power has done nothing for labour of late years," The pamphlet omits to mention that while wages havo increased 25 per cent., as a consequence the cost of living has increased 40 per cent., so that the wage-earner is worse off than before.

The Taihape Post says the Public Works Department has under consideration the advisability of abandoning the further ■manufacturing of concrete- blocks at the Taihape block-shed, and. shifting the plant rfurther up country. During the last' two .years 35,000 blocks have been manufactured, and of this number the Taihape' tunnel took about 27,040. Twelve thousand blocks have been carted to the Mataroa tunnel, and in- that tunnel ten chains of the larger-sized blocks will, be used, and of these it requires 540 -to do a chain. - The smaller blocks are 9 by 6 by 12 inches, and 1240 are ,necessary to complete a chain of lining. "^ '