COMPETITIONS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1150, 10 June 1911, Page 6

COMPETITIONS.

FIRST.ANNUAL FESTIVAL. Things are moving rapidly in connection with the arrangements "for the first annual festival ill connection with tho New Zealand Competition Society. The Town Hall has been taken for ten nights from October 25, and, in addition to the 45|)0 offered in prizes by tho society, leading citizens have come forward with special prizes to the value of over iilOO. There' can bp _ no doubt that the geographical position of Wellington will induce some of the best talent in New Zealand to compete at this festival. Popular prices will bo charged, and the public should derive much jileasuro and instruction from the competitions. Any profit that may accrue will lie devoted to the improvement of music, literature, and elocution in Wellington. The syllabus will be obtainable from the secretary (Mr. James Dykes) early next week.

Me c sr=. Cole's Drapery Company, Manners Street, have, an immense selection of children's knitted polkas, vests, _ and hoods, also a stock of new loop curtaining, at very reasonable prices. A number of scatter advertisements in this issue gno some idea of the bargains that aro offering. Me«r<!. Arthur Warburton and Co. advertise for sale, or exchange tor liouS3 property, a splendid block of 5000 acres milling bush (chiefly totara matai.nmu, nnr i diver pine), and said Jo contain tipproximately about 05,000,000 feet of timber. I'ull particulars may bo obtained at the firm's offices, Ibt leatherston Btrcct, Wellington. In connection with the Boy Scout athletic sports at the Exhibition this eveniu", troops not otherwise engaged meet at the city boundary, Miramar, at half-past two; and shorty alter . p.m. will assemble at "Winder s corner, Cuba Street, to march to the. bhuhum, where a full'programme will be carried out. Nimmo and Blair, seed merchants, Dunodhi, have an advertisement in this issue, referring to "Montauk,' a destroyer of all insert parasites. "Montauk," 'states the advertisement, gives new life to the trees.. It is not corrosive end is easily, applied.