AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9992, 12 March 1910, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES. "The Fly Pest" is the title of an extremely interesting picture at present being shown at the Foresters' Hall. This sjbject is delineated pijqioscopically, aad Sgi th£§S well'kHuWil lomiemorß t magnified several times IsU'KS? than is ttd (Miufc thete insects carry Contagion. Each fly may lay a thousand eggs in a season; a generation 'cortlfes to maturity in t:n days, and one sum- | mer may s e as many aa twelve genI eiations. Tbf fl" s-ems to a:.t only as a me.nanical ta.r'er, ■ f:r which, however, lie is most admirably ltCtc\ The genua cling to the sevctt Ihousand(hairs of his sticky <"eet. He is by no means inconvenienced by a burden of a bundled thousand various organisms, including those of infantile diarrhuea and enteric, in face almost every infectious disease. His tastes kad him lo alternate between the stores of householl food and the

unspeakably toul haunts of putridity and disease. The films supporting this picture are tf a very high standard, This collection will appear for th last time to-night. A complete j change will appear on Monday. j AUCTIONEERS' MEMORANDA. j A.jemindfr is given of \he clearing B'dl6 to be held at Opaki, at 1 o'clock on Moncft# v next, by Messrs Abraham and wtViiains on behalf of Mr A. H'. Wtir/htson, who has disposed of tils property. The list incluctea Draught horses, sheep, wire nefXfrig, rails, fclaD?, battens, and a assortment of* general farming 'machinery. Further particulars may be seen in the advertisement appearing elsewhere.