ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 15, 19 January 1910, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

As most people, when they wish to go a long journey, make straight for the express train, so do most people, when out for good business, make straight for the D.C.A., Ltd. Do you ? You owe it to yourself. You owe it to your pocket. The hardware department is the very place just now. Call or write about Preserving Pans, Jars, and everything necessary to make good work of the home fruit preserving.* Lodge Rawhitr meets on Thursday, 27th inst. "Do you play tennis?" is the question asked by the well-known athletic* outfitters of Napier and Palmerston North—Messrs J. It. Ross and Co.— in their advertisement in this issue, and considering the number of clubs this firm has supplied during the season it is unnecessary to state that the question is a pertinent one. Tennis is a game which brings out the fullest development, both • mentally „ and physically, but unless one has the "proper racquet much, harm may be caused, hence the many and varied ideas which are daily brought out for the perfect enjoyment of the game. The latest is the "Lockwedge" racquet, in which the middle piece is spliced into the ash, thus preventing any breaking away at the shoulders and does not need any binding such as vellum or gut. Further, the racquet is bevelled to fit the ball, thus giving a much larger surface* play. A word to the wise is sufficient*. Keen tennis players will do well to get into touch with these racquets as they are certain to be the standard racquet in the future. A meeting of all interested in the formation of a quoits club will be held at Mr Baddeley's hotel to-mor-row evening, at 8 o'clock. A full attendance is requested. Purchasers are wanted for groceries, crockery, etc., at Redfern's. See our wanted column. Stock Auctioneers' Association will hold a sale at Weber on the 25th inst. Present entries are notified. It is announced on page 8 that the Hawke's Bay open championship meeting and Dannevirke Club's handicap tournament will open at the local courts on Friday and will be continued on Saturday. Admission will be one shilling, and afternoon tea. will be provided free to visitors. A proclamation appears in another column from the Public Works Department, in reference to land taken for road purposes. With this issue Messrs M'Dowell and Power circulate an inset announcing their great end-of-season sale commencing on Friday next. Mr It. Scrimgeour. of Tipapakuku, announces that he is still prepared to undertake painting and paperhanging, and can guarantee the- best of workmanship. His address is Tipapakuku. Railway arrangements for Wellington races and Anniversary Day are published in this issue. Mr N. L. Gurr has a 5-roomed house to let in Gordon-street. Mr A. Sperice, of Adelaide House, notifies that his great summer sale of drapery, clothing, etc., commences to-morrow, when bargains will be offered in all departments.