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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1334, 11 January 1912, Page 6

The Dannevirko show is to be held on Wednesday, February 14. Entries closo with the secretary on Wednesday, January 31, and the schedule will be forwarded on application. The Davis Cup number of tho "Weekly Press" is an excellent one. liiglit pages of illustrations are devoted to depicting; the contest, and the number, which will be on sale to-day, should bo in demand. On Tuesday, Jan nary IG, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company will hold a stock sale at Waikanae. Messrs. Abraham and Williams will hold a stock sale at Levin on Friday, January 12. ■ Particulars of a stock sale, which is to be held at Pahautanui on Monday, January 15 by tlie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, are announced in this issue. Messrs. Abraham and Williams and Messrs. Dalgety and Co. will hold a stock sale at Waikanae on Tuesday, January 15. An attractive auction salo of superior and almost new household furnishings will bo held by Messrs. Brand and Johnston at their rooms, Lambton Quay, today. Messrs. Lundon, Stewart,'and Co., Hastings, have a cheap Hawlce's Bay farm for sale. Particulars of an auction sale of land, to bo held by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agoncy'Company on Saturday, January 20, at flawera, appear in an announcement in this issue. Colonel Caldwell, master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, received on November 2.1 the honorary degree of Doctor of Law of the University. When ho was being conducted to the rostrum at the Senate House tho under-graduates present lowered from t,'ie gallery a wax representation of the college crest, which liuiig above tho heads of the proctors. It was ultimately cut down by Colonel Caldwell, who kept it as a present.

The historic Hqso Hotel at Wokinghnm was sold at auction on November 23 for .£2650. It is said that the son? "Molly Mo?g" was written at the hotel, Gray, Swift, Pope, and Arbutlmot each composins ono verse when detained there once by wet woather. The subiect of the son" was Molly Mogg, a dauglitor of the landlord.