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particularly other folk, apartments of a youngbridegroom: Charlie Prescott, from which, incidentally, she walks off with a priceless phial of explosives ten times
than more powerful dynamite. Complications arise] from the fact that this young somnambulist has a knack of clinging to the necke if any and every man she encounters on her nocturnal wanderings, and
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TEETHING WITHOUT
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A NEW LIGHT ON BABY- REARING.
It is a recognized fact that
fact that Daphne leaves various feminine sticles in the former's apartment, the situation which meets these two when they are confronted by their jealous wives may de imaginel There are many other mix-ups I have once more to complain also, so that it is a very tangle of a lack of material upon which state of affairs that has to be to hang my week's commercial straightened out in the end. article. Nothing fresh has trans-Babies-and in fact all Children The manner in which thepired since my last screed, and caed medicines of their own, Denniston Players staged the although things are awfully dull and that most baby-medicines do play could hardly be bettered in the local business world the more harm in the long run that. Clet amongst the fun-makers general opinion is that they will good. Also great mistakes are were Mr. Leo Keanedy and Mr. begin to brighten up soon. The often made in measuring doses W. Vaughan Morgan, as the lowering of prices continues for tiny patients. Baby's Own husbands, Miss Warda Howard steadily" in the wholesale export Tablets, the Canadian medicine and Miss Pressy Preston as the markets, but reductions in the for Children of all ages, meet wives, together with Miss Shirley retail markets have noget began every culty. They are guar- Huxley as the sleepwalker, and to reflect the movement. The bug-anteed to be absolutely harmless Misa Florence Chapman as the ing which was expectedto develop and free from opiates. They Servant girl Mamie. The lastas a result of the recessions has
so soit that they fall into powder named
in not yet disclosed itselfprincipally at very slight pressure, fortning everything that she did, whilst because the dealers are saddled
an ideal dose for Infants. others who also kept the humour with stocks of goods purchased going were Mis Valentine at very high prices, and very few Sidney, Mr. Mr. W. D. Howard and Mr. Re-out last week, of averaging their David Belbridge are in the position, as I pointed ginald Wykebam.
stock values. Reuter during the
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MANY ARTICLES
PRICES RULING IN
Some Specimen Bargains:-
FLANNEL PYJAMAS
From $4.50 per suit.
WOOLLEN MUFFLERS
all Colours From $2.00 each.
BLACK & TAN SHOES From $10.00 per pair.
COLOURED SHIRTS From $2.50 each.
FLANNEL SHIRTS with Collars to match From $5.00 each.
WOOL WAISTCOATS From $7.50 each.
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Baby's Own Tablets are plza-
specific for feverishness. con-
to the taste; slightly laxa tive, comforting and digestive- stipation, diarrhoes and worms At the time of teething her act like magic, giving paintess sleep and easy teething.
Obtainable from chemists, alon
Mag American and English mills are accepting lower wages and the frequency with which ofers are made to accept reductions in wages is indicative at 60 cents the vial, post free. of the progress which deation is from the Dr. Williams Medicine making. The downward trend Co., 95 Stechuen Road, Shanghai of prices in primary and wholesale markets is More pronounced than ever, a feature of the movement being. the announcement of pricateductions
HOUSE PROFITEERS IN JAPAN.
Tokyo. It is understood that
by e number of the leading the Government propose to intre- woollen cotton and other manu- duca in the Diet next session a facturers. The belief is that bill to protect tenants against commodity prices will still go profiteering fandlords. Caless
gbow good cause lower before there is any sub- landlord can stantial recovery, There
are before a special Rents Board, he apparently no illusions es to the will be prohibited from raising! temporary character of such house rents more than once every recovery as there may be. A 10 years. The landlords naturally stabilisation or upward more will put up strong opposition to ment at or from present prices the billin the Diet, and hot debates | would probably represent merely are anticipated.—Router.
a temporary buying period to be
ended as soon as necessities are
acquired. The sustained health-demoralising effect upon the ful buying movement sure to silver market.
arrive eventually is apparently
waiting for more stabilised levels.
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This is the time of the year when the Chinese abroad sead The world's trade outlook is their savings home for investment little better, but the position is
In the ordinary way these far from normal at present. Three remittances serve to buck Ex- months may bring us back to change up, but this year with a good trade. à leading Lancashire fluctuating silver marke: the effect merchant is reported tohave said: has been lost. During the past: Plenty of us are losing money; week there has been coming It was bad enough when we bad through the Hongkong banks to pay for so many cancellation something like three to four lakhs of contracts, first by the Japanese of dollars from the Chinese abroad and then the Chinese, but now for their people. It is not ex- the Americans are cancelling pected that the remittances will in just the same fashion. They be on the level of previous years 800 m to have adopted the the economic depression and practice as an ordinary method the reported losses of the Chinese of business. If the market goes in the Straits Settlements and against them they simply decline elsewhere will thir the volume of to accept delivery, and there are their savings. plenty of British firms with large quantities of goods in New York and elsewhere, awaiting an The co-operative movement is not as well-known in China as in opportunity to unload them on the market-of course, at a loss.Indis and Burma, where the roal Personally, I think that things are good that is done among the mending, and I look forward agriculturists is widely appreci- in the early spring to ated. Its fame has spread to
where the peach-} auch healthier complexion California,
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