ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 18, 20 July 1907, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

o — "Ladies Night" at the Wellington Savage Clvb — an annual reunion — is to be h3ld on Satuiday next in tha Town Hall. Both the main hall and the concert chamber hive been engaged, and efforts are being made to ensuie that the coming gathering will be the most •uccessful held by the club. His Excellency tho Governor, who is a past Chief Savage, vrill be present. The' third annual dinner of the officers oi tho Wellington City Cadet Battalion, was held at Godber's llooms last night.' .The toast-hst was as follows : — '"The Navy, Army, and Auxiliary Fotcss" 1 " (Mr. H. A. Parkinsin), responded to by Capt. Darroch for tho Navy, Captain and Adjutant T. W. .M'DOnald (Defence Dapartment) for the Army, acd Captain Endman (Defence Cadets) for tho Auxiliary Forces; "The Education Board" (Mr. MacMorrato), responded to by Mr. A. W. Hogg, M.H.R. ; "The Inspectors" (Captain Blake) , acknowledged by Messrs. j. S. Tennant (inspector) and Wm. Gray (Principal of the Svormal School) ; "The N.Z. Public School Cadets" (Mr/ WmFoster),, responded to by Captain Hemp'.eman; "The Winners of the Challenge Shield" (Major Conies), responded to by Captain Erskine, Officer Coaimandinj the Terrace School Cadet Company, which •won the Xbrth Islard Shield ; "Absent Friends'' (Mr. C. J. M'Kinr.on), in reply - Captain Feltham ; f'The Ladies" (Captain Scott). During the cvecing musicr.l items j ■were rendered by Captains Wilson, Low, j Messrs. P. Hoctley, CardaleJ* and Clapham. Apologies for unavoidable abssnee wero received from Mr. It. Lee, chairman .of the Education Board, Messrs. Fleming and Bakcwell (inspectors), Sir Edrrard Gibbe3, of tho Education Department, and Colonel L. W. Loveday. . There was a good attendance at the weekly meeting of the V.M.C.A. Literary and Debating Club last evening, Mr. R. Brown presiding. The subject for debate was : "Is Professionalism in Sport Desirable?" Mr. Dow land Epc«!:c in the affirmative, and Mr. Partou' for the negative. The negative won by a small majority. • The second of three performances of the well-known corncJy "Dr. Bill" was given by tho Pet One Comedy Club in the local Oddfellows' Hall, last evening. The " performers gava a cnpitil interpretation of the many amusing sit- j uations with which the play abounds, and were rewarded v/ith hairty applause from the vfcry_ large audience. A concert was given on, Thursday night by somo -friends at tlie Mission Hall, Tory -street. The programme con- j sisied of pianoforte solos, vocal duets, J 'songs and recitations. On the motion of Sister ' Isabel a hearty vote of thanks was accorded the entertainers.

painful accident happened about noon tc-day to a boy named' Robert Southgate, son of Mr. Southgata, a mefn- ' ber of the Petone Borough Council. He i was standing at ths cart entrance to ! King's Chambers, in HarhoaT-strest, when a two-horse lorry owned by Mr. W. Chat- | field, and driven by his son, was about to bs backed into the building. Tho diivtr, ! according to a statement mads to a Post | reporter, suit the lad and told him to get out of the v.-ay ; so d.d another man. The next tho driver, heard v;«iu a scream, J and, looking tor/arda the boy, saw ]>im drop on the footpath. Ho had been j jammed on a corner of the building, and j appear2fl«tp bo injured about the back. An ambulanca vrss 3e:rie<i, t.iul tha in- " jurcd boy was taken to the hospital by a/ constable. On examination at that institution it -was fpund that the boy had been severely crushed, and it is feared ho has .sustained internal injuries. • Trip monthly meeting tii the Wellington Association of ArcLitecte mi 3 held last evening at the association's new rooms in National Mutual ln.uicncc Buildings, and was well attended. Mr. J. Charlesworth presided. It was decidud to form h. permanent library in connection with the aceociition, and to have papers read and lectures given on aichitectunil sabjecte. The new looms acquired by the association are neatly fuiniihed and a promi32d donation of pktuies and books should make them atti active to the members. Tenders are invitee! for storas and ether articles fci- <lininjf-car= on tho Wellington-Napier-New Plymouth sx-eiien of railways. Mr=«. Male, Parh Costume Co., Wcodmti street, specialist .in coats and ikivis, baaL an announcement in ou? advertising columns of interest to ladies. The subject to bo discussed to-morrow evening at the Socialist meeting in lit* Majesty's Theatre is "Tho Involution of Ke%iou." Tho speaker will ho Afr. 11. M. i«jt7.23rald. Mns^rs. Barr, Loary, and Williams advertiia in to-iußht's issue particulars of several properties for sale ' "Forewarned, forearmed," remarked the toga, And now when winter's bleak wiad'j rage, Fcrearme'l in ho r.nd well annpd, too, Who holds a talcgUAfd 'Kainit tho crew Of ills that ccmc upon tiio wind, And that «alogu»id you'il always find In medicine that* unfa and mru, Tha Trusty Wood*' Oi'em rcuporiuint Cure. — Adv>