NOTABILIA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3641, 14 March 1883, Page 3

NOTABILIA.

The members of St. John's Branch, H.A.C.8.5., hold their quarterly meeting at the usual place at 8 o'clock to-night. The Artillery Volunteers parade (without uniform) for gun drill at the gun shed this evening - at 8 o'clock. A gift exhibition of novelties opens in the Protestant Hall to-night at 7 o'clock, and every visitor'will receive a present. A complimentary dinner to the delegates attending the Oddfellows' district meeting will be held in the Theatre Royal at 8 o'clock to-night. Outstanding accounts owing to Mr D. Cotton unpaid by to-morrow will be sued for. The first day's races of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's autumn meeting comes off on the Hastings course to-morrow, the races commencing at VL'-H) p.m. Special trains will run during the day, the time-table being advertised in another column. The stores of members of the Holiday Association will be closed from 11 a.m. to-morrow, and the banking , houses at Napier, Port Ahuriri, AVaipawa, Waipukurau, Wairoa, Hastings, and AVoodville all day. Can Is i of, the races can bo obtained at Caulton's

Pacific Hotel, Hastings, this evening, and the bookmakers call over the odds tit the Criterion Hotel at 9 o'clock to-night. The Napier Cliristys re-appear at the Town Hall, Hastings, on Friday evening. Mr Montcith will sell by auction at the Horse Bazaar on Saturday IS horses bred in the Wairoa district. Subscriptions to the building fund of the Hawke's Bay Hospital are earnestly invited, and donations marked "Children's Hospital" are especially set apart for that purpose. Cargo per steamers Southern Cross and Taiaroa will be discharged to-morrow, and if not taken away will be left on the wharf at consignees' risk and expense, or be stored if practicable. An election of live persons to be members of the Licensing Committee for the Hcretaunga district, will be held on Saturday, the 31st instant, and the nomination of candidates for same must bo by noon on Saturday, the 21th, at the Town Hall. Hastings. Mr M. -R. Miller's .sale of allotments at "Woodvillc will t;:ke place at the Criterion Hotel. Napier, on Friday, March 30. Full puriieulai-s will be found in the advertisement. The Board of Reviewers for the Hawke's Bay district meet at the Court House, Napier, on Wednesday. -Itli April, for the purpose of hearing ami determining objections under the Property Assessment and Eating Acts. The Apothecaries Hall in Hastings-street is now closed, owing to removal to more commodious premises. The first election of the Road Boards in the .several districts of the Hawke's Bay County are appointed to bo held on Saturday, the ."3th Ma}-, and the first meetings of elected Boards will take place on the following Tuesday. The names of the returning officers und* the places of polling in connection therewith arc announced. Messrs Smyth and Williams announce the names of a numborof firms for whom they arc the solo agents in New Zealand, and also the firms for whom they arc the sole agents in Hawke's Bay. Mr W. C. Fowler, Waghorne-street, Spit, grinds scissors, knives, razors, ifcc, on moderate tonus. Mr J. S. Blair has a two-roomed cottage at Taradalc. with two acres of land and outhouse, to let. The destination of the steamer Go-Ahead, •which loaves here at G o'clock to-morrow evening, has been altered from Wellington to Diuiedin. Crcosotiue. a new and improved disinfectant, is prepared solely by Mr Woods, dispensing and family chemist. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.