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Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 7, 9 January 1908, Page 8

How often one finds a most imperfect piano in what would otherwise be a well-appointed home. So frequently, too, that piano is quite past restoration. Money spent on it .would be money wasted. Get it up t6 tuneit drops back. Give it tone or touch— neither lasts. Imagine the thoughts of your guests who are asked to play upon or listen to such a discouraging instrument! Not only that, but you don't do justice to the talent of even your own family. Get another piano at once. Communicate with Mr M. J. Brookes, North Island Manager, in Wellington, of the. Dresden Piano Company. His firm will allow you full value for the old piano, and equip you with a new one—a really fine instrument, sensitive, responsive, triumphantly superior in every single respect. You can get it on time-pay-ment, too, if you wish—simply 20s or so each month, until this really fine piano has become your very own. *

A Press Association message from Hasting^ says:—The Rev. J. Hobbs, Anglican Vicar of Hastings, who has for some time interested himself in the social welfare of the youths connected with racing stables, has been given £300 by stewards and others interested in racing, the gift to form the basis of a building fund for a clubroom for the youths of Hastings. The rector was told that he was doing more than the Gaming Act to purify sport.

The thermometer in Blenheim at 9 o'clock to-day did not give much indication of the heat that was to follow, the reading being but 70, as against 78 by Clyde;- which was the hottest place in the Dominion. Tiritiri recorded 74 degrees, and Taupb and Gisborrie were the same as Blenheim. A rough sea was running at Cape Campbell.