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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 9

■• Mr Goodall draws attention in another column to the fact, that owing to increased business on the ground floor .of his cate, the upstairs portion,' hitherto used as private rooms, will be "occupied as business' offices. The thirtieth annual show of the Wairarapa and Rast Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society is to be held at Carterton on November 20 and 21. Entries close on November 9. ' A lecturo on "British poetry and li British poet" will be delivered at His Majesty b Theatre on November 13, by Mr. J. Heard. The proceeds of the' entertainment will go,-;, towards the. repairing fund ot. Our Ladies <. Honio.of . Compassion at island Bay. . : Messrs. Leonard and Co., No. i Featherstoa .-v Street, advertise a specially cheap farm thirtymiles from- .'Wellington.: .. v ■ The motoring season in Christchurcli was opened on Saturday afternoon by a run. to West Melton; reports tlio Lyttelton lunes. -. About a score'of cars left the City Council • • ■ Chambers together, and tho day being line, . a pleasant run was-had, and tho gathering ; was much enjoyed: / A spectacle \rare in theso latitudes might|..,. v iiave been obseiybd at sunset on Thursday, . reports. "Nelson Evening - Mail.'/ when tho sun wore a great halo resembling the. belt,.,:, boon round the orb of day in tho Polar 10gions. " Tlio zodiacal colours, very faint, ' ; could be seen in tlio upper half of the ha 10,.. while from tlio sun there was radiation of ~ light' in faint but clearly defined rays. Out- .... side the halo, too, there was a reflection of these rays, apparently from.-the snow^- of. eastern mountains, probably tho distant Kaikouras The whole-aspect-of the sunset was ''Arctic—sky;' 1 earth; and sea being of the tw 1 ; of grey slate. ! •' '•>