NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10462, 28 September 1899, Page 6

NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

The Cycling and Athletic Sports Meeting of the Canterbury' Athletic and Cycling [ Club fakes place at Lancaster Park thia afternoon. Twenty-seven events constitute the piogramme, and the committee intend to run these off in two and a half hours. The hon. secretary of the Hospital Lady Visitors' Association acknowledges, with many thanks, subscriptions from the following : —Mesdames Crosby, Ehnslie, Geo. Hall, Gould, Macdonald, R. Macdonald, Fenwick, Malet, Hutton, Izard, Mathias, Wynn Williams, Cotterill, Rhodes, A. E. G. Rhodes, R. H. Rhodes, T. Moorhouse, Mdllett,- Pitman, R. I). Thomas, Julius, I Boyle, Neave, Cowlishaw, Mearee, C. Bridge, Bishop, ComuiOD, Lady Hall, Miss Gresson, Messrs C. Lewis, J. Gould and L. Lane and Dr. Townend. From fifty to sixty competitors have entered for the pedestrian and cycling events at the cross-country steeplechase meeting under the auspices of the Pioneer Club on Saturday next. As Mill be seen by a notification elsevtbere Mr Curtia's troupe of Afro-American Minstrels, including soog and dancft artists, cake walkere, &c., will open their season here on Monday evening nest, at the Theatie Royal. The annual meeting of the Hospital L»dy Visitors' Association and destitute patients' fund will be held on Monday next, at 3 p.m., in the Hospital Board room. A meeting of the officers and members of the Orange Institution will be held in tbe Orange Hall, Christchurch, to-morrow evening, ut eight o'clock, to consider the advisabltness of forming an Orange Band. The adjourned annual mee'ing cf the Starr-Bowkett Building Society will be held at the office, Gloucester street, at 8 p.m., on Monday next. A jumble sale takes place this afternoon at St. Luke's schoolroom. The final practice for choirs taking part in the Diocesan Choral Festival will take place at St. Luke's Church, this evening ing. The service to bo used this-year is "Wesley in F,""and the anthem "0 Prake the Lord of Heaven" (Gass), with, the usual psalms and hymns*. At the 7 p.m. service a sermon wQI be preached by tjie Yen. Archdeacon Harper, and the collections will be in aid of the funds of the association. The Amberley Rover Bicycle dub hayt finished tarring and sanding the track in the Amberley Domain grounds. The track, which has cost £150, will be in good order for the Braids' gala on October 12th. A public exhibition of -the training received by tike junior members of the Salvation Army, at the hands of Ensign Dixon, will take place in the Choral Hall to-night. The entertainment will be preceded by a march in which the children, dressed in costume, will taktf part. In conneotion with the St. John Ambulance Association, male candidates for nursing certificate* and for medallion are t© attend at tht City Council Library on Monday next at 8 p!m. The first of the saries of six lectures by Dr. Dendy will be given at Canterbury College this evening at eight o'clock. The Sumner Bowling green will be formally .opened by a match to-day, and if the weather is fine no dcubt there will b* a large attendance. The members of the Christchurch and Canterbury Bowling Club* taking part will leave by the 1 p.m. tram. A meeting of master millers to confer re the Millers' Hours Bill, now before Parliament, will take place at 3 p.m. to-day a* the office of Messrs Wood Bros., Limited. The bazaar for the extinction of debt upon the Kaiapoi Presbyterian Church and for repairs, to tie manse, will be opened by the Mayor (Mr Feldwick) this afternoon. i_e next "At Horje' of the Christchurch Liederkranschen will take place in the Art Gallery on October 3rd. An excellent programme has been arranged for the occasion. The annual meeting of the Richmond Swimming Club will be -e*a to-night, in the schoolroom. A vocal and instrumental entertainment will take place in the Linwood Hall luiis evening, in aid of the newly-formed Linwood Temperance Brass Band. The Yen. Archdeacon Harper, of Timaru, who has recently travelled in Egypt, will give a lantern lecture on that country in the Choral Hall, Latimer square, on Thursday next, October 4th. The slides are said to be excellent, and are from his own negatires. Meetings will be held this afternoon and evening in the Durham street Wesleyan Church in the interests of the century commemoration fund. The aauerents of the Wesleyan Church in Christchurch hope to raise their share of the £60,000 the colony is asked to subscribe. The annual festival of the Christian Social Union has 'been fixed for Michaelmas Day, Friday, September 29th. Special sermons bearing oa the objects of the C.S.U. will be preached in the following parish churches on the Sunday within the octave, October Ist: —Addington, Fendalton, Phillipstown, Papaoui, Riccarton, Haiswell, Slew Brighton, Asntmrton, Little River, etc. The annual meeting of the C.S.U. has been arranged far Tuesday. October 10th, in tne jj.rt Gallery. Tae Bishop of Christchurch will preside.