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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 80, 19 March 1919, Page 6

The advance agent for J. C. Williamson Company’s colossal film spectacle “Hearts of the At orld'’ was in town to-day making arrangements for the Hastings season which opens next week. TXt the Supreme Court yesterday. His Honour, the Chief Justice, granted a request from both parties in the argument in the appeal case Crown (Mr. Cornford) v. Cunningham (Mr. Hallett) should be heard before the full Court at Wellington. The question of costs was reserved for that hearing. Mr. S. O. Garland, watchmaker. Hastings has pleasure in informing the public of Hartings and surrounding neighbourhood that he has obtained services of Air. G. P. Styles as his assistant. Air. Styles has a Dominion reputation as a workman and has been about seven teen years in Napier. This meanthat all customers ,can rely on efficient work which will yield satisfaction to all concerned.* It was only the timely arrival of the police "that saved Professor Nichol’s life when he was struck a brutal blow on the head with a heavy cudgel by a drunken brewery employee back in ISSS . But liquor reform, unpopular t.ien. is popular now so that wherever this valiant veteran speaks crowds gather to be entertained and instructed. Professor John A. Nichols can speak here but once and that is on Friday night in the Assembly lln.ll at eight o’clock. Hastings is favoured by this visit of this Efficiency League lecturer inasmuch as only hali-a- . dozen North Island towns can have . him.* '

Of the very brilliant orators heard here lately none can compare with Professor John A. Nichols, appealing as he does to the intelligence and reasoning faculties of liis audience. The late Mr Oliver Wendell Holmes, famed for his ■"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,’’ in a personal letter to Professor Nichols commended in the warmest terms t;;s series of lectures delivered before educational and literary societies of the highest class. This great economist. educationalist, debater, and lecturer can speak here once only, Friday night, in the Assembly Hall, Hastings, at 5 p.m. Professor Nichols was engaged on the Ifffipiency League’s recommendation.* j