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HOW HE CAME TO " SWEAR OFF." (advertisement. ) (Continued.) « My— ray wife bought them for our baby. Give me ten cents for 'em — I want a drink.' * You had better take the *hoes back to your wife ; the baby will need them.' said the pawnbroker. * No, s-she won't, because— because she's dead. She's lying at home now— died last night.' As he said this the poor fellow broke down, bowed his head on the showcase, and cried like a child . " Boye," said the drummer, " vou can laugh if you please, but I —I have a baby of my own at home, aud I swear I'll never drink another drop." Then he got up and went iato another car. His companions glanced at each other in 6 lence ; no one laughed; the bottle disappeared, and soon each wa> sitting in a seal by himself, reading a newspaper,

Amusements. MAKINO SCHOOL HOUSE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10th. FPULAR ENTERTAINMENT In aid of the Gray Family. Songs, Solos, Overtures, Duetts, Recitations, &c. Makino Brass Band will attend. J. H.nFry, Esq., J.P., will preside. To commence at 8 o'clock. Admission 2s and Is. Daw's Brake will leave the Square at 7 o'clock sharp. T>UBLIC HALL, FEILDING. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. MR C. WILSON (Of the Collegiate School Wanganni) will deliver his popular Lecture on "OLD AND NEW LONDON," Illustrated by 40 Magnificent Photographic Views, shown by the Limelight (many taken specially for this Lecture). In Part I Mr Wilson will recite " In the Signal Box," and in Part II "Billy's Rose" and the "Lights of London," by Geo. R. Sims, Esq., author of " How the Poor Live," and " Ballade of Babylon." Prices, 2s and Is. Doors open at 7.80. Lecture to commence at 8 p.m. sharp. AWAHURI PLOUGHING MATCH. A PLOUGHING Match will be held at Awahuri, in MR P. STEWART'S PADDOCK, on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. £40 will be Given Away in Prizes. Feilding Brass Band will be in attendance. For particulars see Posters. D. 0. STRACHAN, Hon. Sec. TTORSE-TAMING. HASTIE'S HOTEL STABLES. MR D'ARCY HYLAND, The Gbbat Wild Hobse Tamkb and Rider, will give an Exhibition of his Skill at Horsebraking To-night in Hastie's Hotel Stables, admission 2s ; and on 1 Monday morning, at 10 o'clock, to \ show how to Mouth Horses and Lift their Legs ; admission ss.