THE THESDaX. NOYEMBEE li 1890



pubis in=ohurch ciroles, iB one for Rawing a chalk line around a table leg. to prevent ants'getting to it. A Baptist minister and one of .his Hook mado application foif a patent on this Borne time ago, both. claiming priority of invention. Their claim is that the ant develops formic aoid, and that when ho oomes in oontftct with the chalk, a chemical com bination is formed, wMoh results in an explosion and the immediate extinction of the ant. An effort has boon made to patent the Lord's Prayer—the applicant claiming a now device in that the rapid repetition ojthe.prayenvillcuro Btammering, 'Tliis'patont has not been grauted.—Christclmrcb. Press, m fl e a t a b -p o y a l LAST NIGHT OF HELENFEKOOS' Bijou Comedy Company. "" glit by a crowded led audience, ' TO-NIOH'P-TUESDAY.IIth GREAT COMEDY BILL AND OTHEL.LOI Prices 3s, 2s, Is. FOR SALE. IwO or 'i'hreo aorca of land fronting ju Worksop road, aero adjoining, fronting Subjcx strcot. Apply T DIXON, BDHQUGH OF MASTSHIOS. 'VTOTIOEis hereby given that, a poll JLi for the olection of Mayor lor tho Borough of Maßterton will be tnkon on WEDNESDAY, 26th Novcmbor, 1890, Bnd 1 horaby appoint TUESDAY, 18th, • 1890, and the Town Clerk's .Office, Maßterton, tho day and place tor tho nomination of candidates. Nominations will be received up to 12 o'clock JSOON of tho day appointed, R. BROWN, Returning Officer. MAURIOEYILLE Athletic Club. ' Annual Gathering, SPORTS' GROUND, MAURIOEVILLE. MONDAY, DEO, 29/90 Sports to commence at 11 o'clock President, 0 under (Inndorsen; Vice- President, J F Heckler;. Secretary •and Treasurer, Geo Franklin; As« uistant Secretary, W Mould: Judges, Messrs Peter Neilson, Henry Vile, F Hummer, James O'ottiss and Canute Hanberg; Hamlicappers, Messrs U Eeene, N Neilsen, John Bministcr, G Gunderscn and J F Heckler : Starters, Robt Franklin and W Mould | Auditors, Messrs W Mould andWarboys. All members to form a General Committee,. Programme. Mauricevllle Handicap, consisting of three distances, namely, 100, 220, and 440 yards, entries to be made to the Seoretary up to December 19th. Handicaps declared on the 23rd in the Wairarapa Daily paper. 