AGRICULTURAL HALL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 211, 5 September 1900, Page 5

AGRICULTURAL HALL.

There was a large attendance .Sit thei Agricultural Hall last night. I'he same .•:, programme will be given to-night; ■ •

A' very rare, fish in these ."waters, , which was caugM in the Kay by the trawler, is on vieiw at Mr G. Mercer's shop. The stranger is an elephant, fish; (Callorliyn'chiis Antarcticus). and belongs, to, the chinioeroid variety;. It la nearly three feet in length and j.h,e r appearance of its head is not'unlike tlaa'fc of an elephant's, whilst a.proboscis of three or four inches in length esta,b-> lishes it claim., to the name. r ,This,'it; believed to be the. fii^st.specimfen of the variety caught in the bay, but' one was previously caiighfc in the.Spuiids* —Nelson "Mail." * . A man named Denis lledniond, 9 cook. by occupation, had a narrow escape of,.being" run over by a train at the crossing... opposite- iPpst:, Offices Square. The man was walking^ in the direction 'of the Queen's- Wharf / entrance gates : when, heralded "by ;tha usual whistle, a.' train; steamed up; Redmond seemed to be oblivious of fact, for the cow-catcher, -picked hira :, up and whisked him along the mac/* adanjised roadwa}':. • He naayi;however, account himself lucky mv getting-'of£- ;- with a bad shaking, a sprined ankle, and.a severe attack of "gravel;rash,'* a extending down one side Of ; jhis, fac& and body. He was removed % the railway officials to the' hospital, ; -&ni\ ; is now progressing, favourably:—- : "N.Z. ■, The winter course of . lectures arranged by the Y.M.G.A. will be varied; on; Friday evening by .a g-rand. vocal and instrumental concert tenderedtbyj Mr and MrsS. Jackson, ■ who iaw ok; so many occasions been.of'great help^ to the association in oonriection-with, the social side of the work. Prom thes programme, which appears elsewTiere/ it will be seem that a great musical treat has been prepared^ in which Miss' Annie Taylor, Miss Elsie (Mlfillan, MissEllie McCabe, Mr J.: Jackson, and: Mrv ;; George ißeid v/ill take part. ;Mr and: Mrs Jackson's large orchestra'will con-i tribute, several of the. items in a programme which promises to be dne;of the best of the series. Admission;ia by season ticket, or one shilling at the door. ■■ ■. :. .:■,;; '..'■■.'■: ;' ' ■ ■'•> ;■