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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3752, 22 January 1898, Page 3

FIRE BBIGADE and INSTITUTE ENTERTAINMENTS. FLORAL FETE AND SPORTS TO BE HELD AT BAYLY PARK ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 28th JANUARY. Grand Procession will leave the Borough Chambers at 12.80. Prizes will be offered as follows : — For Perambulator or Go-cart ; Ist prize 10s, 2nd 5s 4-wheeled Buggy and Horse ; Ist prize £1 2-wheeled Trap and Horse ; Ist prize £1 Farmers' Milk-conveyance and Horse ; Ist prize £1 Tradesmen's Carts ; Ist prize £1 Carriers' Carts and Horses ; Ist prize £1 Best-decorated Bioyolb ; Ist prize £1, 2nd 10s Best-decorated Horse and Horseman ; Ist 10s Best Comic Dress, driving, walking, or riding ; Ist prize £1 Floral Tableaux (including harvest, red, white and blue, Jubilee soldiers, etc, etc.) ; Ist prize £1 All ' prize-takers to promenade on ground. Costume Bioyole Raoe. One mile, handioap. Prizes value 20s and 10s. Nomination, 6d ; acceptance, Is Boys' Raoes. Entrance free Girl's Raoes. Entrance free Sack Raoe. Entrance 6d. Post entry 100 Yards Handioap. Nomination 6d, acceptance Is Grand May-pole Dance Two Events Hawera Fire Brigage Bioyole Raoe. 2 miles, handioap. Sweepstake of 2s Bioyole Evolutions Guessing Competitions. Nominations for Bioyole Races and 100 Yards close on Wednesday, 26th January, with the seoretary. Admission to the ground, Is; stand 6d extra. Afternoon tea provided. COMPETITIONS. COMPETITIONS CONUNDRUMS. Two handsome prizes (Ist and 2nd) will be given for the best Conundrum. Those of a local nature will reoeive preferenoe. EPITAPHS. Two valuable prizes will be given for the most curious epitaphs (not neoessarily original). CONDITIONS. Entries to be in the hands of the Seoretary, Mr A. G. Brett, by Monday, 24th January. All entries to be aooompanied by the proper name and address, whioh must be written on a separate slip of paper. The best of the conundrums and epitaphs will be published in the the first issue of the Floral Fete newspaper, the winners in the second issue, and the answers to conundrums in the third issue. ART EXHIBITION. Open 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on 26th, 27th, 28th January— 6d. The publio are invited to send framed works of art, oils, watercolors, engravings, or etchings to the Council Chambers, Hawera, for exhibition not later than January 24th. Titles and artists' names, if known, for catalogue, up to 21st. PHOTOGRAPHIOCOMPETITION First & Second Prize Certificates. Framed photos will be reoeived up to 28rd, to bear title and to state whether amateur or professional, or for exhibition only. Entrance to competition, free. Jas.H. Stevens, seo. art seotion. TABLEAUX VIVANTS, &c, &c, at Opera House, on Evenings of 26th, 27th, and 28th January. (Under the oonduotorship of Ladies from Wellington). INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL MUSIO. 10s Prize for Best Comic Song. SIDE ""SHOWS. Gipsy Tent, Post Office, Museum, Ascot, Shooting Gallery, Phonograph, Electric Battery, Press Room, and other side shows too numerous to particularise. GUESSING COMPETITIONS. CAKE COMPETITIONS. GAS EXHIBITION. Refreshment Stall open eaoh evening. Two Bands in Attendance. Doors open at 7.80 p.m. Admission to Opera House eaoh evening, Is ; children, half price. A. G. BRETT, Hon. Seo. HAWERA COUNTY COUNCIL. DOG TAX. THE following fees are appointed to be paid forthwith for the Segistration of Dogs within the Hawera County (exclusive of the Manaia and Normanby Town districts) for the year 1898, viz : — Fcr Collie Dogs used for sheep and oattle, 5s each For other Dogs 20s each Provided that the payment be madu on or before 80th June, 1898, the fees shall be 2s 6d and 10s respectively. C. A. Budge has been appointed Registrar, and the Council's office, Hawera, the registration office. JOHN HESLOP, Chairman. Hawera, 15th January, 1898. EGMONT A. AND P. ASSOCIATION. ON SATURDAY, 22nd mat., at 8 p.m. Mr Reakes, M.R.C.V.S., will deliver a leoture at the Foresters Hall, Nelson-street, Hawera. C. A. BUDGE.