MEETINGS, ENTERTAINMENTS, &c.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10954, 2 May 1901, Page 6

MEETINGS, ENTERTAINMENTS, &c.

| ~Y' '"* The rrpoit suomittid at the annual meetj ing of subscribers to the Islington Library | showed that the bbrary had been a great ' s«ocess. A vote of thanks was passed to Mr | Cross, who declined re-election as secrei tary. In r-co-jnition of his services Mr | Cross was elected 1 a life member. During ! the past two years the library had spent over ', £80 in new books. The Christchurch Meat j Company contributed £15, and the Govern- ) ment subsidy amounted to £11 JBs Bd. j At a meeting held in th; Wes.eyan School I room. St. Albans, on Tuesday night, it was • decided to start a Literary Society : meet. j ii:gs to be held every alternate Tuesday. j Ti.s session will be inaugurated with a lecture on "Tennyson" by" the Rev. W. G. j Parson, on. I At a social held by the members of the ! Persc-vernnce Lodge. U.A.0.D., and otuar j lodges oi No. 2 district, on Tuesd&v evening I a P.D.P. cellar was presented *to Bro' | Cotton. A pleasing musical programme was I interpreted. ; At'th. Seamen's Rest, Lyttelton, on Moni day night, a well-attended concert was given !by tlie following ladies and gentlemen: ; Misses Hatch well. C. Meikle. Weir, M. I Clerk. M'Ni.&H, and Hough, Mrs Gilmore, I Me'srs Hobs on. Foster, ar.d Cook, and Mas- ! ter Riordan. The usual votes of thanks, ! and "God Save the King," concluded the I programme, which had been greatly appre- | ciated. '■■ 'I her"" wan again a crowded house at the Opera House night, when the Dix Gaiety Company played ".Muidoon's Picnic" successfully. All the different speciality items went excellently. This a it. moon there will be a rnatlnee performance in addition to tha ordinary evening one. The specti-esci-pe reprrduction of "Faust and Marguerite." by the Northcote Company at th. Oddfello.ws' Hr.ll. is equally as successful as the "Christmas Carol.'' which j.re.-i.de>l it. the hall being tilled to overflowing last night. Tha piece went well, as also did t.'ie'mu.-lcal olio, ar.d the spectral farce. 'The Company appear again to-night.