The Examiner, Published MONDAY. WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY FRIDAY. SEPT. 8, 1911.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVI, Issue 4469, 8 September 1911, Page 2

The Examiner, Published MONDAY. WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY FRIDAY. SEPT. 8, 1911.

Mr Davis, of Kumeroa, is advertising for a boy. Mrs J. J. Murphy, an old Woodville resident but now of Auckland, is on a visit to her old friends here, r Roslyn suits are built with a thorough knowledge of'.£the science of correct suit-building. 1 |One hundred "steerage .passengers left Auckland on Wednesday by the Wimmera for Sydney. • the n meeting, held on Wednesday and Thursday, the Hon J. D. Ormond’s horses were lucky. On the ars day, the Maiden was won by Vega, .he Electric by Al'cnr. and the Marton 3a dicap by W hey. Yesterday M mb pprop d the Telegraph. At Gore yesterday, the firm of R. and F. Wallis. Ltd., pleaded guilty on four informations of < vasion of the Income- ’ tax, and were fined £BO and £lO costs. Besides which, an order was made for payment of treble the tax on the amount evaded. In the Hunter’s Hurdles at Marion, yesterday, Camershan fell and was killed. His jockey, J. McLean, sustained slight concussion and several cuts on the face. Ranter and Jackson also came down, and J. Hercock, the rider of the former horse, sustained concussion of the brain.

The anniversary services of the Ballance Methodist Church were held on Sunday by the Rev. G. Brigman, of I?orsswood, and the annual tea meeting was held on Wednesday evening. There was a good attendance, and that there was a good spread goes without saying. T’.he reoort showed that there wns a substantial balance in hand, and it is intended to use it, with the proceeds of this jear’s anniversary, in completing the fining of the vestry and making other imorovements. 'The visit of a couple trf traploads of Woodvil’e folk was greatly appreciated, and Mr John Harding vvas pressed into the aid of the programme with address. The visitors greatly onioned tkeir visit and the drive out and in.

On Wednesday the Retires (Wood" ville) best the Ballance Buttercups at hockey by 7 goals to nil. Katherine Cecil Thurston, the wellknown novelist, was found dead in her bed at Cork (Ireland). The retail price of butter in Wellington has been lowered by 3d per lb. The price is now Is 2d, Stand Out Tea ha? stood the jest of time, and is still the best. Try it. Obtainable only from B. Staples T)r. F, Reid Mackay has kindly con* sented to deliver a lecture in Woodville on a early date, under the auspices of the Boy Scouts. C. Smith,Ltd., the well-known Mail Order House of Palmerston North, are showing exclusive novelties in the way of spring millinery and French flowers. Particulars of the Grand Metropolitan Summer Show at Palmerston North, to be held on November Ist, 2nd and 3rd, are published today. Entries close lor all classes on sth October.

The Bev. Thos. Fee, well-known for his fighting abilities in debate, will address a meeting in the open air tomorrow evening, after the S A. meeting, on the question of No-license. The Taylor-Carrington Company performed before an excellent house on Wednesday evening. The two plays produced, “ A Husband’s Night Out,” and “ A Lucky Irishman,” were well acted and pleased the audience immensely.

A last word about Presswood’s finishing sale. Tomorrow is the last d«y our readers will have a chance of purchasing watches, jewellery, plateware, docks, etc., at next to nothing prices. See new advertisementWe have much pleasure in intimating that our fu 1 show of early spring and summer millinery and novelties for the coming season are on view, and we. respectfully invite all our customers and the public generally to make an early call of inspection at the Bon Marche— Sandford and Co. A shocking accident at Flaxmill, near Dargaville, on Monday. Reginald Alexander, while working a team of horses and tine harrows, was run over, and it is believed, killed instantly, receiving terrible wounds. No one saw the accident. It is surmised that the horses bolted. Deceased was about 28 ye >rs of age.

At the Methodist Church at Pahiatua

on Wednesday, Mr Stanley Brightwell (an old Woodville boy, and son of Mr Thus. Brightwell) was married to Miss Lily de Malmanche, daughter of Mr C. de Malmanche. Miss Maud de Malmanche, sister of the bride, and Miss Ettie Brightweb, sister of the bridegroom, were the bridesmaids, and Mr U. W. Wilton acted as best man. The ceremony was performed by the Bev. W. H. Speer. She didn’t belong to the “ Smart Set,” But she turned night into day, And smoked while others were sleeping, Cigarettes I am sorry to say. She tri' d some Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure,

Her asthma to forget. And now she’s a bran “New Woman,” And an ardent “ Suffragette I’’ 2 Switzerland the home of delicate embroideries of entrancing design and exquisite workmanship—is represented in Palmerston this season. Mr Collinson, of the famous cash drapery firm Collinson and Cunninghame, Ltd., has made a very fortunate purchase at big reductions right on the spot. The Horowhenua Chronicle reports that an offer of £*loo, made by Dalgety and Co. on behalf of a Palmerston North client, for the purchase of one of the registered Holstein cows at the Weraroa state farm, was declined by the department, Later on a second offer was made by a Palmerston farmer direct. He bad ra * h* B offer to £2OO, This tetpptlog figure was also declined. The her(f has done wonderfully well. The Hop. T. Mackenzie was able to report recently that it has more than paid for itself,) in sales, and the butter fat and milk records are remarkable. Lord Gladstone, Governor-General of South Africa, was entertained at a lun

oheon at Salisbury. In the course of » speech, referring to the decision In the Dmtali case, in which he reprieved a native sentenced to death, he said nobody regretted thejdifference which had arisen with the people in Southern Rhodesia more keenly than he himself, but it was a difference over the merits of a single case rather than of principle. There could be only one principle, namely, the inviolable sanctity of our women, coupled with distinct justice and fairplay to the subject of races (applause). _ He emphasised the number of criminal cases wherein white and black were involved in the past year, and suggested that the machinery of trials might require overhauling. He eulogised the revised system adopted in Natal. HELPED CHILDREN THROUGH WINTER. “ In my opinion children’s colds should never be neglected,” writes Mrs M. E. Ellbourn, Piper-st., South Broken Hill, N.S.W. “My two sons, Arthur and Frank, were always catching colds during the winter month but I managed to get them through the winter by the use of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. If either of them wakens up coughing I always give him a dose _of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, which has always been successful in ridding them of the usual winter colds." Sold by B. H. Leigh.