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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 14 October 1914, Page 1

SPECIAL AOVERTBSEMENTS. QPERA HOUSE, HAWERA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16. FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY. By Special Arrangement with the Australasian Film Features, Ltd. "NERO AND ACRIPPINA." "NERO AND ACRIPPINA." A Great Historical Masterpiece. 10,000 feet in length. Two and one-half hours' entertainment 1000 artistes of the first rank play the.principal characters. The entire court of Nero—Senators, Patricians^ Priests, Vestals, the Emperor's Freedmen, enormous rabble, armies of soldiers and gladiators, crowds of men and women slaves, all of which in splendid costumes, expressly designed for the company by the Gentili firm of Rome. The circus scenes executed in the arena of Verona—the only Roman circus perfectly preserved,. Races 'of chariots, Christians thrown to the lions, martyrs of the funeral pyre, the Saturnalia, .the naval festivals, the Imperial galleys, the great fire and destruction offßome, the golden house, the Imperial Theatre. "Villas arid palaces reconstructed with exact historical fidelity. The World's Record Picture. Gloria Company's £40,000 "Feature" £40,000 Every day increases the popularity of this Great Masterpiece. "NERO AND ACRIPPINA." "NERO AND ACRIPPINA." 10 Parts. 740 Scenes. MANAGERIAL NOTE.—We do not claim for th:u iilm version of Nero, the Mad Empeicr, that it is the first time an attempt has been, made to throw upon the screen this thrilling story, the enactment of -which at a time when the Roman nation was at its zenith brought about its decadence, but we do assert —and we do so unhesitatingly— i that never before have the doings of j Nero been portrayed so effectively, so accurately "in detail or amidst . the actual scenes made famous by ■ historians. ; Box Plan now open., No Increase in Prices. ' "QRESBYTERIAN HALL. TO-NIGHT. At 7.30. MRS NALDER will tell THE STORY OF RAMABAI'S LIFE. Offertory, in aid of the child widows of India. Literature and Descriptive Post Cards for sale at the close of the meeting. BEDFORD'S Lecture on "Economics of Drink Question'''admitted the finest ever delivered in the Dominion.'; Opera House, Tuesday. THE POOR OF QREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND AND BELGIUM RELIEF FUND. A PUBLIC Meeting to organise the above Fund in this district and to appoint a Committee to carry out the same will be held in the Opera House on THURSDAY, 15th October, at 8 p.m. r Mr • R.\W. Shallcrass, the General Secretary for the Dominion, will attend and explain the objects, of the fund. : H. K. WHITTINGTON, •■'■■'■ Mayor. ' TE KIRI HALL. , ASOCIAL and Presentation tendered to Mr C. Sissons on the occasion of his departure from the district will be held on FRIDAY, 16th, at 8 p.m. *. ■ . Admission: Gents, 2s 6d; ladies, Is. F. TLNDLE, Hon. Sec. HD. BEDFORD'S Lecture on • "Economics of the Drink Question" is convincing. Opera House, Tuesday. A^ 1.b.0.F. (AMF^TCAN CONSTITU--1 TION). ■■",;' ■, " '.''. THE Forthightl'v Meeting of Huia /Hodge will h* held.TO-MORROW (Thursday), at 7.30- o'clock, in the Orange Hall. •■ -i I DO not miss hearing Bedford, of Dunedin, next Tuesday, Opera House. ' .' HAWERA BOROUGH COUNCIL. HAWERA UNITED FRIENDLY SO- j CIETIES' TREASURE HUNT ON. LABOR DAY, 26th OCTOBER, 1914. TN AID OF HUNTLY MINE FUND. NOTICE is hereby given that the ' Council, as Trustee of King Ed- \ ward Park, by virtue of the powers vested in it under "The Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908," has given the Hawera United Friendly Societies permission to charge for admission to that portion of the said Reserve known as "The Sports Ground" on 26th day October, 1914, such charge *k>r admission to be Is for every person to the gitound, and Is for, every person to the pavilion. Dated this 9th day of July, 1914. H. Si ELLIOTT, 147,21 ■;■„.-.-, Town Clerk. MR H. D. BEDFORD, LL.B., is Lecturer on Economics of the /Dunedin University. Hear him Tuesday, Opera House. NOTICE. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. TO facilitate closing of our books at an early date,; we request that all Accounts due to the firm of Silby and Co., Awatuna^ be settled forthwith. All Accounts outstanding after ::■ the 18th inst. will be placed in the hands of our solicitor for recovery. SILBY & GO. Awatuna, October 12, 1914. ■ BEDFORD can more than fill" the biggest hall in Dunedin. Do not miss>Him Nest Tuesday. <■ X