NOTES AND MEMORANDA

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11533, 16 March 1903, Page 6

NOTES AND MEMORANDA

Mr G. 11. Harms, touring represents ' the for .Mr Got. Musgrove, whoWW*eorcluded piloting Madame Melba the colony, passed through town on Satur day on his wiy tolhmechn, to arranm 1 ' the. opening of the Xellk Stewart that city on -April 11th. - .!! The tiret annual mMin X of Zealand Hookey Asocial inn. n i whid office-bearer* will be elected, has been fixed 1 -* for April 24tii, at the office of the b««u tary, lngiiVs Buildings A general nn-eting of tlw Floral Fet* *' Commit too will )» held nt the Gtr (W-v cil Clumbers to-morrow, at 4 p.'m gjjj the Ground Committee, will meet at U» * show grounds at 4 p.m. to-day. "l Tlie adjourned annual meeting o f ■ suhscribera to the Rhodes Convalescent Fuud will bo held at .Mr Charles dart. V rooms this afternoon. ' A meeting of ladies in connection mth ' the visit of his Excellency Admiral F«e.<>' f ehnwe -will be held at the City Gmadl * Chambers at 11.30 a.m. to-day. r The meeting convened at the request of fh, / Hon. C. C. Jiowen. with reference to t3* ' erection of a memorial to the late HoiL's Wm. r.olleston, will be held on Wedmwfar" afternoon at the City Council Cliambe*. , Tlw annual meeting of tho AleHiodbi * Sunday School Union will be held at the l St. Albnne Sunday School to-ntghL ■ The <• tea meeting will take place at 630. *' It is announced that on Wednesday aexL ' being the occasion of the Legal match, the offiow of the barristers tndf" solioitora of tho city will be closed day. Tho instnllation of Bro. C-W. Ctanri. '* 8.A., as W.M. of the Lodge of CogawA '' l'apanui, and tho investiture of hie offitttti will take place to-morrow. R.W. Bro. jj". C. Binns, G. Superinlendcnt, assisted \» G.L. officers, will perform tl» ot^i*jnoi» v ' ' Entries for the Temuka Bicycle Uob'i, sports on Easter Monday close on March 31st. There are several running event* with liberal prize money on the progranunfc' The Ashburton St. l'atrick'e Day SportiAssoci.ition have been wry hud to mnke their sports, which take place on thft * Domain oval to-morrow, a success. An '* attractive programme lias been issued, cad the total entries received: are, tnjßsually large. The champion cycle event* will be .' contested bytiome of.'the'besrt known.* ridtrs, and it is expected that there will ' be five maohines in the motor contest. »

Tho ball given by Mr Daly on Friday * night was held at Koiapoi, not Rangior*,/' as was inadvertently etated in Satnrda.j'» ? paper. . , Tho Aniberley echool children, witlfc" friends ntunbering about two hundred, held". their annual picnic at the Opawa gardens on Friday • , , The eecretury of the ChrLstehnrch Short-' *' hand Writers' Association has jutfb received from Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, of Eng« ' land, the reralts of the October cxamuuK;" tion of the Society. • The followina •*»!'/ tho successful candidates:—Mies AgßtK-T McGill, 180 words; Alias Maude D. DigbjViS 160 words; Miss Marion Strange Miss Jane T. Boose, 140 words; fIUwA Grace Butter, Miss Hettie Batter, • E. McCully, Mies Prudence Boyce, Mi«<? Georgina MaoKay, Miss Maude Pannell.-f; and Miss £. Haieall, 120 words; Mms«|; Floras and V. E. Lyons, words; 'Misses V L. Watkins, £. B. Aa«'rf thony, A. Collins, L. Joyce, Bliss, J. G. McLeod, and Meesrs X. AJx Shearman, H., Geddea and A. H. Gilby, «, 100 words; Mies Emily L, Dunn, 90•, words; Misses Venus A. M. Jelfe, *B*/, Spencer, M. BuchiananJ Lizzie and Linda Taylor, 80 words. * -r Mr Robaon, who comes in advance of < the Westminster Abbey Glee and ConoertvParty, of which he w manager, is efc < present in town arranging details for the ' appearance of the Company here.