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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 43, 14 November 1907, Page 7

Tlio annual meeting of the Society for the Provontion of Cruelty to Animals will be held in the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon at four o'clock. Mombors of the public who are interested in, tbu work of the Society are invited to attend'. ' : A public reading of "Julius Crcsar" will bq given in the Concert Chamber, Town Hall, by the Wellington Shakespeare Club this evening. Admission will bo.by mombors' tickets, ■ . , Oh account of their employees' annual pionio, Messrs. Dimock and Company, Limited, announce Hint their premises will bo closed all day on Saturday, l November Ifi. , : Tho executive of the Wellington Musical Union invite tho assistance of musical friends in the production of Handol's great oratorio " Israel in Egypt." Full particulars aro advertised, . , ; Mr. Fisher will- move, at tho next meeting of tho City Council, that tho Council notes with pleasure the negotiations ponding between the Wellington Steam Ferry Company and tho New Zealand Government as to tho purchase as a national scenic reserve of the natural bush at Day's Buy, and urges upon the; Government the desirability of acquiring the s:ime. The U.S.S. Company advertise-.details of a sea excursion to Picton on November 21, Marlborough Itaco Day. The Company's steamer Arahura will mako tlio trip. , ■- A complimentary performance is to bo tondered to Mr. Charles Blake, by tho Wollington Amatour Dramatic Society, at tho Opera ljouiiK this evening. Full, , details aro advertised. ■■•■'■ The Nowtown Brass Band will ([ivo a porformancn at the Basin Kescrvo this evening, commencing at 8 o'clock. > News reachod Wellington yesterday of tho death at Auckland of Mr. James Patorson, an old omployeo of tho firm of Messrs. Archibald Clark and Company, and father-in-law of Mr. Robort Angus, gonoral nianag'of lii . New Zealand for Messrs.. Thos Cookand Sons, tourist agonts. Mr. Angus arrived in Wellington from Auckland'last evening, intending to visit tho south; but now ho will leavo for Sydney by tho Moeraki to-morrow to join Mrs. Peterson (widow of the deceased), who is returning to New Zealand after a trip alroaA. .-'■•'