How Is it! AjU anyone in the crowd. Ask your next door neighbour, Ask the man who collects'tickets on the railway. Ask the poople who dwell in Eketahuna, Mauriceville, Tenui, Carterton; Groytown, or anywhere *'■«. Comnpicato with the people living in anfpartoftbsco-::!? «mt the; shop atL. J, HOOPKRs and they will tell you "bocauselt suits them.' And why does it suit them? Became they get more and hotter in exchange for their money at the Bon March* than anywhere else, and because the conveniences of tho place are such as no other establishment can afford. These are the bare outlines of the reasoning that brings the people in shoals to this wonderful place of builness. Visit-the various depart-! ments In which the. lordly creature man finds all ho .want*,' and woman-lovely wornan lovcs to linger and look at the fashion section, Here are the Boulevards of Paris and the ehops of Regent and Oxford streets, London, rolled into one. Here under your eye are the fashions arranged, classified, and ready for immediate use and wear.- Turn Into the grocery and provision sections, These are of interest to every man jack in the community, To describe the advantages of buying from Hooper would fill abook. 'Whether you want blankets or bonnets, .tea or | sugar, whether, you're a cMUy mortal or a' hot: member, a' protectionist; a freetrader,. a socialist, a ctlithumpian, a poaitivist, a none such, ore. rabbit catcher, you will find no better outlet for the money you have to spend than at Hooper and Company's Bon Marclie, Master oa.~Advt' '

Tho Portland Ceiuonfc Corporation of New Zealand, with a capital of £40,000, i has been registered in London, The Chairman and CuunoiUor Elgar, otthe Wairarapa South County Council, have been appointed delegate! to the Charitable Aid Conference,- proposed to be held in tho Wairarapa.
