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] RECORDS BROKEN ON A | MATCHLESS. In Wellington M.C.C. hill climb last; week a 3$ h.p. Matchless wiped thefloor with every other machine opposed to it. Tlie course was one on which ; sheer horse-power would tell, being per-; fectly straight and excessively steep, j The report says: —"In all heats and the final the Matchless started like a shot irom a gun, and completely outclassed everything, up to and including all the 7 h.p. machines. It made fastest time of the day and record for the hill." This is the fourth successive win in the North Island in four competitions, a side car trial, two hill climbs, and a race on the fiat. Be it noted that m» other :U h.p. motor cycle got anywhere near the Matchless in the Wellington hill climb, the next fastest machines being of foreign make, with engines more than twice as large as the Matchless. Matchless Motor Agency, W. H. Phipps Black, sole wholesale distributor for N.Z. 92 Manchester Streot, Christ-church. .206

'' Having a small piec« missing from his tongue," is the description of a lost brown .Pomeranian dog advertised for at Kingston-on-Thames. A small kitten was discovered recently to have travelled from Bath to Bournemouth and back, sitting on a gas cylinder beneath the guard's van of a train. Laugh, and the world laughs with you, Sneeze and your friends all groan For this good old earth has need of your mirth, It lias eolds and coughs of its own. Cough, and you spread the coughing, Kill it with process sure; .Laugh—you «hall laugh with pleasure If you take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1

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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 149, 30 July 1914, Page 5

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Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 149, 30 July 1914, Page 5

Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 149, 30 July 1914, Page 5