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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 300, 12 September 1908, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS. OPERA HOU SE. SPECIAL CHILDREN'S MATINEE., . THE FATAL ■ WED DIN G,, / TO-DAY! TO-DAY! SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. An Afternoon's Delight for tho Little Ones. Doors Open at 1.30. Porformanco at 2.30. Spccial Matinee Tariff. Adults as usual. (No Early Doors). Children Is. to .'all parts. ~ OPERA tf OUS E, Direction of Allan Hamilton. MESSRS. RUPERT CLARKE, JOHN WREN, MEYNELL AND GUNN'S. DRAMATIC " COMPANY, Commencing with a SPECIAL MATINEE. THIS AFTERNOON! THIS AFTERNOON! THIS AFTERNOON! SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 ' ' (At 2.30), and FOUR SUCCEEDING NIGHTS. GRAND SPECIAL REVIVAL " • " Of the Most Successful and Sensational Drama in the Whole Wide World, THE FATAL WEDDING. THE FATAL WEDDING. A play that has conquered the people of all countries and climes, has disarmed all criticism, and which throughout Australasia HAS EARNED MORE MONEY Am! WON MORE HEARTS Than Any Other Production. An Entirely New and Representative Cast, including— MISS BEATRICE HOLLOW AY and MR. ERNEST LEICESTER. A RAY OF AUSTRALIAN SUNSHINE. THE FAMOUS TIN-CAN BAND THE FAMOUS TIN-CAN BAND And ALL the KIDDIES From, the. ALLEY.. JESSIE THE LITTLE MOTHER,' LITTLE QUEENIE WILLIAMS. The Play Prodnced by Mr. C. R. Stanford. The Box Plan at the Dresden—from. 2 o'clock a£ Abel's, also Day Sales. Prices—3s.,-25., and Is. (Early Doors fid. to Back Stalls and Gallery), Performance at 8 o'clock sharp. ' 6501 WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL. PERFORMANCE BY THE NEWTOWN " BRASS BAND (Under the Conductorship of Bandmaster Parker), .... THE NEWTOWN BRASS BAND ivill give a Performance at the NEWTOWN PARK, TO-MORROW (SUNDAY), September "13,- at 3 p.m. . . . JNO. B.'PALMER, Town Clerk. September 12, 1908, 6545 — i. : gILLIAKDS! TEE GAME MADE PERFECT. ALCOCK'S New Patent METELBAK CUSHIONS Ree. (Resilient Patent) Guaranteed SO per ccnt. better than the best Cushions'ever before manufactured. ..., METELBAK CUSHIONS are the latest and greatest improvement to Billiard Tables, .'combining maximum speed with minimum effort. Five iTables fitted -with - METELBAK CUSHIONS can be inspected at READ AND MURRAY'S BILLIARD PARLOUR, Victoria Street, opposito. Free Public-Library, Sole Patentees— ALCOCK AND CO., Billiard Table Manufacturers,"' C 854 WELLINGTON. PUBLIC NOTICES. £10 0 CHALLENGE. In "Evening Post" of September -It he following was advertised:—"A student can become a rapid writer of Gregg Shorthand in half the time required to master only the theory.'.of other systems." Believing that Pitman's is the most easily learned and, in every way, tho best system extant, WE CHALLENGE THE-.-ABOVE-STATEMENT,' and offer hereby to submit to any test the Gregg representative may arrango,- with a view to testing such , claim, provided only that a committee of five reputable, disinterested, and well-known Wellington citizens approvo of and supervise such test. . " , If a majority of tho supervising committeo •decides that tho statement quoted- above is substantiated, wa undertake to FORFEIT ,£IOO to the general funds -of- the' Wellington Y.M.C.A. . - ■ The sum of .£IOO has been deposited with the Manager of "The Dominion;" as evidence'of' th*T bona fides of this challonge.-to; be.refunded to us or handed to the Y.M.C.A.; .ai, the : case may, be. ' This offer to remain open till noon .on Monday,' September 14. !»•- ■ PROPRIETORS BANKS'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE.' - • • - 6395 1 0 0 Being convinced of the "superiority of Gregg Shorthand, we ACCEPT- THE; : <£IOO CHALLENGE which appeared in Saturday's issue of The Dominion, and have placed, the conditions with tho Manager of The Dominion. In our reply to a similar Challenge. from, Banks's Commercial College,, wo, stated "Our advertisement is based on facts and on tho writer's personal experience, as'well as" tho experience of Gregg writers and students who have learned other systems. The "results which wo are accomplishing day by day in tho training of our pupils, and the popularity of our Institute, fully substantiate., our advertiser inents." . - . We deprecate competitions between local Institutions as engendering. feelings inimical' to" the higher interests of tlie students, but-since tho Proprietors of Banks's College hav'd- publicly announced a Challenge, 'we feel it incumbent upon us to ao<y?3t'it. v " GREGG SHORTHAND INSTITUTE, " J. WYN IRWIN, 6550 • Principal."''' IN THE SUPREME COURT-OF NEW ZEALAND. WELLINGTON DISTRICT. No. 893. UNDER The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1908. • BETWEEN ANNIE MAUD HILLING (PETITIONER) and ROBERT WILLIAM HILLING (RESPONDENT). TO ROBERT WILLIAM HILLING, formerly of Dannevirke and Littlo River, but now of address unknown, Sawmiller. . / TAKE NOTICE that Annie Maud Hilling,! of Dannevirke, claiming to have been lawfully married to you, lias filed her petition in tho Sujiromo Court at "Wellington against you, praying for a dissolution of marriage on tho ground of your desertion of her; AND TAKE FURTHER NOTICE "that unless within 28 days after the 12th day of September, 190S, on which date the last advertisement necessary for substituted service is ordered to bo published, you attend at the Registrar's Office at Wellington and there enter, an appearauco and file a defence to the said petition, this cause will be heard and determined, your absence notwithstanding. A copy of the said writ of summons and petition will be supplied to you on your applying at the office of this Court at Wellington. • Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of September, 1908. • " A. STUBBS, Doputy Registrar. Messieurs Wilford and Levi-are Solicitors ' for the Petitioner, whoso. address for sorvice is at their office, Stout Street, Wellington. .■■■' . - -6528 , NOTICE,. ..' "" THIS is to inform clients. that the. Mount ] Radiant survey being now completed, I i have returned to Wellington, and will carry on the practice of my professionals Licenßcd Surveyor and Civil Engineer, in offices at 155 Lambton Quay. A. WELLS NEWTON. .W.eUißgton, S#ptwab«r. 10,-1508. 6529