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a better mind, is lie a desirable colonist. IN THE TOYSHOP. Sir George Roid's manful protest against the undue devotion of Young Australia to sport will find many echoes. We are still in the toy shop, he says, applying ourselves to the pleasures of childhood with the strenuousness and enthusiasm of manhood. Muscular strength and physical address are invaluable endowments if worthily employed and directed. But everything depends on the "if." Moreover, it is difficult to see how even muscular strength or physical address are promoted by "barracking" at a football or cricket or boxing match; and for one who plays or wrestles or boxes, there are a hundred who are simply limp and flaccid, though perhaps noisy, spectators. Devotion to mere pastime, when worthier work is called for, is bad enough. But merely to gaze at the pastime of others is a still lower depth of degeneracy.

COME A TH' GITHER & BRING A TH' BAIRNS. Dannevirke Caledonian Sports. "OIRST A NNUAL FATHERING Will be held on the Domain Ground WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1910. Commencing at 11.30 a.m. sharp. A ERS IN COSTUME and PIPE BAND will leave the Bell Tower at 11 a.m. PIPING AND DANCING by all the Leading Champions. BOYS' and GIRLS' HIGHLAND FLING, IRISH JIG, SAILOR'S HORNPIPE. AMATEUR RUNNING EVENTS, Caledonian Handicap. £l6 10s. BOYS' and GIRLS' RACES. MARRIED WOMEN'S RACE. THROWING THE HAMMER. WRESTLING. HIGH JUMP. HOP, STEP AND JUMP. PUTTING THE SHOT. QUOITS. PHYSICAL DRILL FOR SCHOOL CADETS. CLUB DRLIL FOR SCHOOL GIRLS FIRE BRIGADE EVENT. TUG-OF-WAR. NOMINATIONS for Principal Events CLOSE JANUARY 17, 1910. ADMISSION: To Ground Is, Children 6d; Grandstand, Is. TRAIN ARRANGEMENTS. Excursion Fares from Napier, Masterton and Palmerston North. Will be held the Same Evening in Drill Hall. ADMISSION: 3s, 2s, Is. J. T. WILSON, Hon. Secretary. ANNEVIRKE DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATION. THE FIRST ANNUAI Will be held on the RECREATION GROUND, DANNEVIRKE, FRIDAY, 11th FEBRUARY, 1910. PRIZES TO THE VALUE OF RAM FAIR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1910. ENTRIES for SHOW CLOSE on the 28th January, at 9 p.m. Prize Schedules may be had on application. STUBBS & WEBB, Secretaries, Ward-street, Dannevirke. 'ANTED Known—The Advocate makes a specialty of printing