FOUR GREAT PIANOS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10152, 23 December 1910, Page 4

FOUR GREAT PIANOS.

THE BROADWOOD THERONISCH THE LTPP THE STEINWAY. . The Dresden Piano Company has just received a big new shipment of these famous pianos, all new instruments, in brilliant condition and tone. Time payments if desired. The Dresden system of deferred payment is so reasonable that clients scarcely miss the instalments. Moreover, those who buy in this way are only charged legitimate catalogue prices. This firm carries the largest stock of pianos in New Zealand, and has instruments from the lowest to the highest price, so that all can be readily suited. Intending purchasers can be assured that they will receive courteous consideration and every possible attention. THE DRESDEN PIANO CO., LTD., WELLINGTON. North Island Manager: M. J. Brookes. Full particulars from the Local Representatives, Ihub ai«\ GorMfinl, next Club Hotel.

The latest return from lfv« Mystery Flat Dredge is 13oz. 2dwt, for 135 hours' work. Owing to the severe winter and facial trouble amongst sheep there will be a shortage of fully 700 bales in the Tolaga Bay district alone. We are in receipt of a very neat calender, published by the old-estab-lished London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, of which office Mr J. C. Boddington is the local agent. A Te Wharau correspondent writes that a wedding in which considerable local interest is manifested takes place on Tuesday next. The parties are both well-known in Masterton. Another portion of the Hauraki Plains, consisting of 33 sections, of areas varying from 610 to I i -0 acres, will be open for selection on January 31st. The new offices in Masterton of Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., are now nearing completion. They will, it is expected, be ready for occupation in a few days' time. Messrs Robert Cooper and Percy H. Nathan have been nominated for the vacant seat for the Maungaraki riding on the Wairarapa Sooth County Council. Mr W. Lett's hcmse at Kopuaranga, which was destroyed by fire on Tuesday evening, was insured in the Government office for £6O. The building/vvasTaitied at£l2o. There was no insurance on the furniture. It is stated that more than one member of the Masterton Borough Council is affected by the provisions of the ww Municipal Corporations Act, in regard supplying goods, etc., to the Council, and that the drastic nature of the Act may result in several Councillors' resignation. The following from Tuesday's Dunedin Star, will be read with interest by Masterton shareholders: —The Mystery Flat dredge-master reports that' there were indications of an ment in the centre cut last week. The ground was getting shallower, and a red-clay bottom appears to be coming IDS. '*'

Considerable excitement was caused in Queen S.treet, Masterton,. yesterday morning,' through a dray load of tar, to be used at the repairing works at the northern'end-of the street, catching fire. The driver noticed the tar smouldering in the dray, and quicklytipped the drums on to the road, where the burning liquid broke into flame. The tar spread quickly, and before the flames had,been put out, a part of a culvert and the wooden kerbing had been burnt.

The one-mile walk- event at the Amateur Athletic Club's sports in Masterton on Tuesday,' will be one of the most attractive contests on the programme. The majority of the competitors are first-class exponents of the "heel and toe" pastime, and the spectators should be treated to a good exhibition of this class of sport. Mr Fleming Ross, of Wellington, an exNew Zealand champion walker, will act as judge.

The... Wairarapa Amateur Athletic Club wish, it known that their sports are being held on Tuesday, the 27th inst. Several cases of misunderstanding have come under the notice of the committee, owing to the uncertainty as to which day s officially Boxing Day. The Amateur Club's meeting is the only gathering of importance being held in the Wairarapa on the Tuesday, and from this fact alone, apart from the splendid programme of events, a record attendance should be the> result. This will be the first sports gathering held onthe Park Oval for some years, and the committee are sparing no pains to make the meeting attractive.

There was a large attendance of the shareholders of the Workers' Mutual Benefit Building Society last evening, when £3OO, free of interest, was disposed of by tender. Mr W. H. Cole was voted to the chair. Two tenders were received. Mr R. Brooks, of Mauriceville, offered £SO 10s bonus for the £3OO, and, being the highest tender, was declared, the successful tenderer. The chairman, when thanking the shareholders for their attendance, said that as the money was coming in pretty freely, he thought the shareholders would be called together again very shortly for a ballot for another £3OO free of interest.

Some interesting facts were recently disclosed, says the Guardian, when an applicant for an old age pension at Ashburton stated that he was sixtyfive years of age and had been born at Waimata, in the county of Eden, North Island, on October 4th, 1845. The applicant, who had been a whaler in the early days, put in the usual • documents, which included a baptismal certificate, signed by the Rev. John Frederick Churton, of St. Paul's, Auckland. The case is probably one of the very few in which a New Zea-land-born applicant has established a claim for the old age pension.

Many readers have heard of Gabriel's Gully, at Lawrence, Otago, and probably some few Mivsterton residents have been there. It was one of the phenomenal gold rushes of, the early sixties. The jubilee is to be celebrated on May 22nd next year, and will probably be a long remembered function, at which many interesting reminiscences will be narrated. One morning there was but one solitary tent pitched in the now historical gully, and next morning there were four hundred. Many of those present at the jubilee will deeply regret the passing of the good old times when gold rushes were frequent occurrences, and when the population of those early clays gave no thought for the morrow.

THERE'S STILL TIME TO WIN THAT VALUABLE CAMERA. "After awl sed and done the gran sekret of winning is to win," is one of Josh Billing's statements with a whole lot of sound truth in it. The "gran sekret" of winning one of the fine cameras offered as*prizes in the Great Photographic Competition is to get a start right away and so hare a good chance to beat the other fellow's best picture. The competition closes on the lastday of the year, so that only a few short weeks remain in which to take the pictures that may possibly win one of more prizes. New Zealand country life is full of good opportunities for the enterprising photographer, and at this time of the year especially many beautiful and interesting pictures may be taken almost every day. The competition gives you the chance of securing an up-to-date camera for the trouble of sending a note for the entry form, enclosing n ipenny stamn for return postage, and if you wish it, a large free catalogue of cameras and photographic acessc ories -will be sent you by the same mat). , ' Write f">r th-? entry form and eatnWui r.ow, to the Imperial Carney

The Eketahuna Mounted Rifles commemorated their tenth anniversary with a smoke concert on Tuesday evening.

Potatoes are, .iceordin.g to a cable reserved last night, selling in Melbourne at £5 Rh per ton.

Mr W. B. Ingram, of the Taueru Hotel, has imported a quantity of English-made fireworks, and intends giving a grand display in the Taueru Hotel grounds to-morrow ovening.

Since the opening of the season, an average of oyer three thousand gallons of milk has passed through the creamery at Hukanui.

Mr A. W. Hogj;, M. P., is said by the Eketahuna paper to have admitted, in the course'of a speech there on Tuesday night, that lie "was not well up in military .v.itters."

Mr T. C. Williams has sold his Kaipara estate, consisting of 23,839 acres on the Kaipara Harbour, and having a water frontage cf nearly sixty miles, to a Christchurch firm, which intends to develop it and dairy on the share system. The place will at present easily carry 1000 milking cows.

A position as housekeeper or place of trust is applied for.

The dental offices of Mr E. R. Wilson will be closed from Friday, 23rd inst., to Monday, January 9th, 1911.

The Town Clerk gives notice that both the pxiblic baths will be closed on Monday, 26th inst., which is*being observed as Christmas Day. -

A tradesman's note book, containing list of customers and other matter, found in Miriam-street, lies at the Age office awaiting.an owner.

Messrs Snow and-Co., land and estate agents, Palmerston North, advertise particulars of a good dairy farm in the wanted columns of this issue.

A meeting of the executive of the Park Beautifying Committee will be held to-night in the old gas office, council chambers.

Xmas post cards and balloons are being given away free to children who accompanied by their parents, visit Mr A. Norman's shop, Queen Street.

Prices for threshing, chaff-cutting and dressing-for the season 1910-1911, are advertised by the principal threshing machine owners of the Masterton district.

A piano recital is to be given at the rooms of the British and Continental Piano Company, in Queen Street, Masterton, to-morrow evening, between 8.30 and 9.30 o'clock, on an upright grand Haake piano. The recital will conclude with the "Hallelujah Chorus," from "The Messiah."

The offices of Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Dalgety and Co., Ltd., and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency C 0.,. Ltd., will be closed : on the 26th, 27th and 28th December;" and 2nd and 3rd January, for the Xmas and New Year holidays.

Notice is given that the offices of the Borough Council will be closed down to 10 a.m. on Tuesday, January 10th, 1911. The public library will be closed from the 24th December to. the 3rd January, and the reading room on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, 26th and 27th inst.

Messrs McLeod and Young, of "The Academy," report having dbne » record Christmas business, and clients speak in glowing terms of the fine assortment of daiuty goods displayed. The fh m have just received a consignment of new and recent novels,; including ' ?The. Rosary,''' by Florence Barclay, which are on sale todav.

' To-raorrow will be "Thelma Day" at the premises of Mr J. V. Gordon, chemist, of Masterton. A free souvenir, in the shape of a small, dainty phial of the new and delightful ' perfume "Thelma," will he given away to visitors to the Medical Hall to-mor-row. Handkerchiefs will be sprayed free of charge.

iA Messrs A. J. Johnson and Co., aiictionecrs, have received instructions to soil on the premises, 143 Dixon Strept, on Wednesday, 28th December, at 2.15 o'clock, on account of Mr P. Hunter, who is leaving the district, the whole of his valuable furniture and household effects, including a choice lot of art furniture and everything requisite to a well-furnished house. The sale is without reserve. Tf tho readers of the Age have not yet seen the splendid display of travelling bags, Gladstones, overland ' / trunks, and other things that go to make the lot of the traveller a happy one, they should without delay get to Elliott's, where the newest in these and other Xmas lines are on show. We would draw special attention to a ladies hat case seen at this establishment, and a brief scan of this firm's advertisement will give many details of value to the holiday shopper. "The more rain the more rest, - ' says the lazy man, while the farmer puts it better by saying, "The more rain the more grass." We are always glad to see the farmer getting his full share of.Nature's bounties. This year there will be many a snug little surplus to spend at Xmas time before Mr Farmer takes his wife and "jl family for the little Xmas trip. Bestarting to spend, it's always wise to find out where to spend to the most advantage. That's where Murray's big, helpful store comes in. With tw-day's issue a replace advertisement announces Mr Murray's readiness to supply all the wants of Xmas shoppers at exceedingly moderate prices.