AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 294, 5 September 1908, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL.

Tho teftm to represent Newtown against City on tho Basin Reserve to-day wiilbo selected from the following:—Booth, Bradshaw, Burns, Collins, Carolane, Carrol, Davidson, Deans, Dawson, Fletcher, Grant. Hutchison, Eimpton, King, Mathewson, Neville, Ryan, and Sparks.

Attention is drawn to our auction columns, where will be found particulars of a number of properties advertised for salo by Messrs. W. E. Turnbull and Co., on Wednesday, September 9. These comprise a six-roomed houso on a large level section in Hawker Street, two houses, shop and house and vacant land at Roseneath, and a three-storey factory in Douglas Wallace Street, now used as a joinery shop. The Roseneath and Douglas Wallace Street properties aro being offered by order of the Registrar, and cards to view may bo had from the auctioneers. The statement has been mado that a student can become a rapid writer of Gregg Shorthand in half the time required to master only tho theory of other systems. Bolieving that Pitman's is the most easily learned and, in every way, tho best system oxtant, tho proprietors of Banks's Commercial College have challenged this statement, and ofl'er to submit to any test tho Groggy representative may arrange, with a view to testing the claim, provided only that a committee of five reputable, disinterested, and well-known Wellington citizens shall supervise tho test. If a majority of tho supervising committee dccidcs that tho statement quoted abovo is substantiated, the proprietors of tho collego undortako to forfeit 41100 to tho general funde of tho Wellington Y.M.C.A. On another pago will bo found Messrs. Harcourt and Co. s new weekly list of properties for salo. Messrs. Lees and Church's removal into Goodwin's now buildings, Cuba Street, is marked by a magnificent display of new spring and summer models in their windows. The difficulties incidental'to a removal have now been sufficiently overcome to permit a customer receiving tho best treatment in this department, also as regards hosiery, gloves, blouses, and other speciality lines for which the firm is noted. A display of spring and summer millinery is now being held at Aylmcr's Showroom, Willis Street, opposite the Grand Hotel. Tho shapes are smart, the fashions of tho moment, and the tulles, flowers, and ribbons the most delicate and daintiest, oa indicated plso.where,