NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

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NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

As will be seen by a notification elsewhere E.wtwood and Co., of Wanganui, invite tenders up to noon of 22nd September for the drapery Block and shop fittings and goodwill of the lease of Victoria House, victoria Avenue, Wanganui. Tenders have to be addressed to Eastwood and Co., Victoria House, Wanganui. The elections in the two wards of the city for which more than one candidate has been nominatp.fi tako place on Thursday next. The candidates in the north-east ward are .Moasra. Pay ling and Gerard, and for the south-west Messrs Andrews and Eastwood, j The first' mentioned in eaoh ease is the retiring councillor. At the ordinary meeting of the Philosophical Institute, on Wednesday evening . next, Mr J. B. Mayne will give an address on "The Cell," and Mr Cockaynewill read the first part of a paper, "An Enquiry into the Seedling Forms of New Zealand . Phanerogams and their Development." A lecture will be delivered to men only at St. Michael's schoolroom, on Thursday next, at 8 p.m., by Dr. Alfred Neale. There will be no charge for admission. In view -of tho discission in our columns of the "Tabooed Subject," there will no doubt be great interest felt in the lecture. * Mr W. W. Collins will lecture in the -Lyceum to-morrow, taking'for his subject, "Will the Nations Disarm, and is Russia sincere." There will be the usual musical programme before the lecture. The annual meeting of the C.R.C. will be held in the Boathouse, on Friday next, at eight o'clock. A meeting of the ratepayers of the Northeast and South-west Wards favourable to the return of Messrs F. C. Gerard and E. Eastwood will be held at the W.C.T.U. . coffee rooms, Gloucester .street, on Monday evening, at 7.30. A concert, for which a very excellent programme has been arranged, will be given in St. Matthew's schoolroom, St. Albans, ©n Thursday evening next. A meeting of the Canterbury College Engineering Society will be held to-night, at the College, when a paper will bo read by Mr E, Dobson on "The economic problems connected with railway gauge." A public meeting will be held in the schoolroom, Hornby, oh Wednesday evening next, to elect committee and make arrangements for the forthcoming sports. The annual meeting of the Lancaster Park Cricket Club will be held at Warner's Hotel, on Monday, September 12th, at 8 p.m. The annual athletic sports in connection With the Boys' High School will be held «t Lancaster Park on Friday, October 7th. The entries for the Old Boys' Race close at the school at 12.30 on Saturday, October A meeting of the Avon Licensing ComIn* wiW be neld to-day at noon. . The title of the address to be delivered to*norrow afternoon in connection with the rheosophical Society will be "A Chinese Philosophy." The subjects for the following Sundays this month are "Has Democracy i wiled?" "The Kingdom of Heaven," and Light on the Path." The funeral of the late Mr C. R. Blakiston Will take place to-morrow at the Papanui The Christchurch Bowling w»b, of which the deceased gentleman was °'d member, wjl! be represented on «* occasion, and will also send a wreath. To-day the invitation excursion trip °« the s.s. Jobn Anderson, from Lyttelton Jound to Sumner and back, takes place, wen fine weather the jaunt should be most •njoyable for the party invited by Messrs *itcaithly and Wallace. Christchurch will leave town b y tne 1.25 train, .*WI the steamer will start on their arrival »* port, -The entertainment arranged, under the •management of Miss Funston, in aid o' the wnds of the Catholic Hall, will take place jjj» September 12th. A very good programme has been arranged for the occasion. " t«* » meetin g of the Early History Com™"tee, m connection with the Industrial Association, has been arranged to be held on Ihursday next, Bth inst.