NOTES AND MEMORANDA
As will be seen by a notification elsewhere, Mrs Wirth is sbill carrying on her riding school. Applications are to be made bo the Gladstone Hotel.
The concert in aid of the choir fund of St. John's, Latimer square, will take place this evening at the schoolroom. The programme includes items by the Misses Packer, Messrs Weir, Godfrey, Watkins, Seeleu, &c.
A concert in aid ot the choir fund will be held in the district schooh oom, Fendalton, ou Thursday, 28th inst., when an excellent programme will be submibbed by Chrisbchurch amateurs. As some time has elapsed since a concert was given in bhe parish, no doubb a large audience will assemble on the occasion.
The monbhly meebing of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Medical Association was held in the Public Library on Thursday, Dr. J. Irving in the chair. There was a good attendance, and a busy evening was spent in debating the special discussion and various clinical subjects. The Society will meet on the third Thursday next month, as the Old Boys' gathering will probably be held on the second Thursday. Mr Frank Stace, so well-known in connection with the Assembly-rooms at Hobbs's Buildings, has taken over the Central Billiard-rooms.
The Matron, Queen's Jubilee Memorial Home, desires to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of bhe August number of the Review of Reviews from the Socieby of Helpers. A second German. social will be held in Sb. Michael's Schoolroom, on Friday, September 29th.
An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Chrisbchurch Gas Company wdi be held ab the offices, Gloucester street, on Thursday, September 28th, at 3 p.m., to consider resolutions altering the Arbicles of Association.
The Sons and Daughters of Temperance at Kaiapoi intend to hold the annual competition for songs and recitations this evening, and a competition for accordion soloist— is expected to be a considerable novelty. On Sunday Mr Alfred J. Burgess gave an address in the Kaiapoi Oddfellows' Hall on " The real and the unreaL" The address was marked by its bireviby. There was a fair attendance.
A meebing was held in the Public Library, Killinchy, on Wednesday last for the purpose of forming a Cricket Club. Ib was resolved that a Club be .formed, and the following were elected office bearers :—President, Mr W. Tipler ; Vice-President, Mr W. Woods ; Captain, J. Yates; Secretary, T. McKee; Committee, Messrs T. Humphrey, J. Allen, — Robinson, R. McConnell, J. Spence, and J. Campbell. A.', a special meeting of the Committee of the North Lobarn School on Saturday evening last, it was decided to recommend Miss Dora Revell to the Board for the appoinbmeut of mistress of this school. There were eleven other applications for the post. It was also decided to reopen the school on the 18th inst., the master having consented to do tbe mistress's work pending her arrival.
The Sunday evening- service of the Christchurch Central Mission was held in the Tuam street Theatre with a large audience. The platform was filled with instrumentalists and vocalists connected with the Mission, and several selections of sacred music were given during the evening. A lady member sang " Where is my wandering boy bo-nighb ?" In his discourse Pastor Birch dwelt on the " Brotherhood of Man," and spoke forcibly on the subject, exhorting his hearers to lay this, the first principle of Christianity, to heart.
NOTES AND MEMORANDA
Press, Volume L, Issue 8591, 19 September 1893, Page 6
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