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Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 309, 12 January 1912, Page 5

Miss Williams, of Australia, arrived this afternoon to take part in the'tennis tournament next week. Messrs Bain and Co. advertise a. • ■ clearing sale of furniture on/ behalf otfi ' Mi Hawick, of the Coffee Palace; The furniture is open to inspection at any time. The Education; Board notify that a meeting of South Makaretu householders will bo held on February 5. for the purpose of electing a School/ Committee. M.r C. R. Pollen, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Hawke's Bay, was a through .passenger to Wellington today, having received intimation, of the death of his brother, Mr Hugh Polllon. The pictures attracted another good house last night, and we advise all who wish to see a well-diversified programme ; and one of unusual merit—not to miss the opportunity of being present tonight, when the films will be shown i'or the last time,

There are a number of Maoris amongst the employees of Wirth Bios.' circus, and Mr G. Wirth gives them fine characters as workers. He is emphatic in his denial of ; >ihe popular belief that Maoris are' lazy; his men he finds have been most loyal to him, and have often gone ahead with their duties in weather which has made the white workers knock off. Many of the Maoris, he says, join the circus for a round trip only, but very often they have yielded to the desire to live in bigger places, than the Dominion holds, and have settled on the other side. -

There must be something in the belief that the hardness of skulls, of, the black race is far in excess of those of the Caucasian (says aPhiladelphia> paper). Following an altercation over a woman at a party given in the home of.Henry Lewis, thirty-six years old, of No. 2402- North Alder-street, LeAvis, a negro, was shot four times in the head at a range of less than sft After penetrating the flesh the bullets flattened out and dropped to the floor. Lewis was taken to the Samaritan Hospital, but was soon permitted to go to his home. liie man who shot him escaped. While harnessing a mule in a stable atJSo. 418 East Rattenhouse-street,. William ■Piffeii,- a negro, thirty-three years old, of the same address, was kicked in the head and knocked down. Getting to his feet, Piffen.discovered the mule lying on the ground. Examination showed that .the animal's leg *as broken. Piffen was taken to the bermantown Hospital, where six stiches were taken in hislhead. The mule was shot.

Brilliantly varied' in its contents and attractively printed and produced the Christmas double number of the Wudsor Magazine, which is to hand from ' Mr Thomas Bain, is remarkable,- J not only for its accustomed programme of new fiction by favorite novelists, lavishly illustrated"by clever artists but lor new features which even increase the \ range of interests covered by its predecessors The fiction includes complete stones by -K. F. Benson, Eden Phill.- ,'., potts, S. Macnaughtan, Justus Miles Forman, Robert Barr, Halliwell cliffe, Barry Pain, H. B. Marriott Watson, and other accomplished .authors. . -j The colored plates of the number are no fewer than fifteen in number, and in-, elude not only masterpieces of modern art by Millais, "Holrnan Hunt, Seymour Lucas, Stanhope Forbes, Stacy Marks, - '. T. C. Gotch and other distinguished painters but also portraits of leading actors in Shakesperian and other roles. '

Colds in the Head, Chest or Th™** disappear as soon as you bring NAZOL" into operation. It is the la-. : :- ;■ test English remedy,' and it works ef- '■: festively—no Cold is "NAZOL" proof. ;'

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