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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 23, 22 October 1907, Page 5

yesterday, sincq the First Contingent of -Now Zealand •Mounted \ Rifles left; Wellington for- SouthjAfrica. ~ "... ' Ovor thirty ox-rosidonts of South' 1 Africa met, in the To' A'ro Hotel 'last/night with tho object of. discussing the advisabloness of forming an institution to be known as tho !' South African Association;" "After brief discussion, m which'the moritsof an' institution 0f ; the kind were pointed out;.' a! motion approving of the'vsuggestion .was carried amidst ap-' plause. /..The election ,of, office-beiirers ,re-mlted-as follows: —~Patron,, His Excellency he Gprornor (subject.to.his oonsont),; presilent, Bion. "G.i.Fowlds ■(Minister .for EducaionV;..,. vico-presidpiits, Messrs. A. Hawkes md G.,Campbell; ; secretary and treasurer,. ilri.W,' Barker; committeo (pro torn.), Messrs. Kenny,'JAllardyco, ''Maris,. Clint, Dix, Lewis, Roberts;. Hardy, Pparsqn,v : Saker,.K,ivk,i.and Gibson,.^ \ At the .npxt r .meeting -tho; pjoposod rules will, comb:up for consideration..,, .•; ,

The Sydney police 'are :on' the look-out for no less than 200 menj'Avho deserted from, the flagship' Powerful before she left; two 'months ago with-her'' time-expired:'crew. •; Thoy did not want to'go back' Home,! and stayedihero; Two'hundred ;is i a !largo. number (to ''conceal,' only oho'has; bcenireoaptured.'Ho ivasifound,ih'an'.Oxford Street hotel,' where ho had found employment, on;Moriday of last week;,and was presented, to tho Magistrate at. the Police Court! Ho was Jispharged intc; .naval 199 is.proceed^. .' ; ! : 'i'.'.vV! : >'ci: : iv.' v /-ii V . -;'■';.;::; 'li'/j'i: .-;;' Tho.'>arrivals'.in:>thp:>Doniihioni:last; month totalled- 2345/. as .'agajnst .5483 for, the cprre-: ■ Bponding month i'last''year.;/ I .The departures' were 1831,; compared .'with 1764' for Septeni■<;l^iii^^■;■;:> The;"-''annual:' general : :;meotirig'' of' the T.M'.c'.'AV.' Division -of '': tho" St.; John^,'Ain- . bulance; Brigade'' was'rheld 'ih'tliei r6oms''last' re'rH)rt r and balarice-shcetw'ere'' road;-fmd' ; adbpted. ''A''vote of "thanks was and the : office'fs ; 'for''' ; thoif ; ;.'services rendered' during .the' year j 'also'to' the chairman' of; the meeting.'."' ''.V -' : ',''' : " ■ ■■'■:.'""■'; :' '.''■.';.'''... Yesterday .afternoon Mrs. T,' W,',.Hislop,in-. yitcd, a,number;".of /girls to tea' at.th'e .Town Hall .;to, meet Miss.* Jessie. Ackormann, and, iiear, an.Vaddrcss'on. the: subject of thejGirls', Realm/Guild.".' Tea the,corridor, of the hall, and afterwards,the'company,ady>urned v ,td the. May or's. room.; >; Miss ,Ackormann, , ; who gave a very interesting address on . '.and'oppbrtu'iiitie's of' th'b'fact; that-'the/girls 'of the Guild were nbt'aslc'e'd'to'giv'b money to any charity,' but'simply'to';h6lp in directions were* 'riot 'touched ; by'other 'organisations; by ;means of';time arid thought arid'pbrsbi/al ijffprt.f^'Whcre'money was required,' it bo raised>,by-entert'ainirieritß,' but : ribvbr by' subscriptidDS/'lt'.'was 'decided to'foriri-.a third centre of tho Guild, and twenty-six mpriibers joined Tho officers elected were —President, Miss Swmdale, secretary, Miss Mooro, treasurer, "Miss .Hugo, committee, Misses Fisher, Hnnwick, and Taylor. The name of the now branch is to,be the Haeremai Centre