NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8997, 6 December 1907, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS

1)Y TELEGJIAI'IJ I'IIESS ASSOCIATION

A CHAMPION ATHLETE.

TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND

NAPIER, December 5

Private intimation has been received that A. B. Postle, world's champion runner, who defeated Day, the Irish champion, is [about to visit the dominion, arriving'at the end of January. This opens a world's tour, at the conclusion of which Postle will retire. He is willing to run anyone in the dominion up to 440 yards. A FERRY FLYER. I ANOTHER RECORD. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 5. The Maori, on her trip from Wellington to Lyttelton, established a record by making the trip in Bhr 57min. The time from heads to heads was Bhr 18min, and the average speed of the run was 19.56 knots, notwithstanding the fact that a dense fog necessitated half and reduced speed for an hour and a quarter. PRICE OF KAURI TIMBER. DUNEDIN. December 5. The price of first-classjkauri timber in Dunedin has advanced four shillings per 100 ft as from December Ist. DIVORCE COURT. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 5. At a sitting of the Supreme Court, to-day, Mr Russell appeared in support of an application for a dissolution of marriage ? the ground alleged being the failure of *.he respondent to comply with an order for the restitution of conjugal rights. His Honor said that he had not seen the Act of last session. He supposed it had to be submitted for the assent of His Majesty, but the Act was certainly intended to do away with that sort of thing. Mr Russell said he did not think the Act had any retrospective action. His Honor said he thought there was a reservation to the effect that the Act should not prejudice any impending proceedings. He understood that from a press report, but if the assumption was wrong the decree would be void and Mr Russell would h.ave to apply to have it rescinded. In the meantime he would take the law as he found it at present. In granting the decree, His Honor said that that form of ready-made desertion had attracted the attention of Parliament, but unt'.l the law was altered the parties were entitled to the advantages of the system. FLY-INFESTED FRUIT. HEAVY LOSS ON A SHIPMENT. WELLINGTON, December 5. A shipment of apricots from Parramatta, Ryde, and other p!a:es near Sydney proved to be affected by the Queensland fly. The number of cases destroyed totalled three hundred, and only fifty cases got through. These latter were sold this morning ,at satisfactory prices, but the loss on the condemned fruit will total about £250. The plums by the same boat were free from the parasite, but the shipment was small. It realised good prices at this morning's Auction sales. DAIRY PRODUCE. A LARGE SHIPMENT. . WELLINGTON, December 5. The Mamari, which sails for 1 London to-morrow, will take a large shipment of dairy produce, approximately 40,000 cwt of butter and 14,000 cases of cheese. ' RECLAMATION AT EVANS' BAY. | WELLINGTON. December 5. j Thejscheme to reclaim a wide afea o'f Evans' Bay, to provide space for industrial expansion, was approved by the city council to-night. ALLEGED THEFT. INVERCARGILL, December 5. Charles Cecil Smith was charged to-day with the theft of a watch and chain and a pendant, and was remanded to Gore. (Bail was allowed in self £IOO and two sureties of £SO each.

WELLINGTON HARBOUR BOARD AND THE PATENT SLIP. WELLINGTON, December 5. An emergency meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board was held this afternoon to decide what action the board should take now that the Union Steamship iCompany has [acquired a controlling interest in the Patent Slip Company. The question was discussed in committee. On resuming the board decided to instruct its solicitor to [take steps to acquire the property and assets J-of the Patent Slip' Company, either at a price to be mutually agreed upon or compel sorily.

Kver since the world napan, man has been ts for the reproproduction ol sound. Nature's sweetest nnuie -the sighing of wind through reeds; the laughter of ft brook; or the lapping of waves these have caused mei to stop rtnd ponder. We see the result in such instruments as the violin, the harp, the flute. But most effective of all, perhaps, is the I'mno Jmpri?oncd within its four walls hide the magic works which breathe forth the harmonies of the world. Almost anything can be achieved on the piano: it is the triumph of the musical world ! Just to run one's fingers along ihe keys of an instrument such as the Broachvood, tin: ISoniscb, oc the Lipp is n supreme delight. The Dresden Piano Co., Wellington, who are the Agents for these, and, idneed, every instrument of high repute, will gladly tall you about their ea~y time-payment system, which makes it eaey to possess this king of instruments—the p^ano.