DISTRICT MEETING OF ODDFELLOWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1908, Page 2

DISTRICT MEETING OF ODDFELLOWS.

[BY TELEGRAPH".— rRESS ASSOCIATION.] FEATHERSTON, This Day. At the Oddfellows district ' meeting to-day officers were elected as follows *' £•£}&, Bro - J - F- O'Sullivan: P.D.G.M., Bro. C. D. Robertson., P.T., Bro. T. S. ' Powell ; auditor, Bro. W. J. Foster; Book Examiners, Bro. "M Maxton and T. Palmer; management Guise, A. J. Ibbotson, I. Haigh, E. committee, Bros. W. H. Madeley, W. (Btobman ; deputies to movable committee, Bros. 13. P. Loasby, G. E. Godber, John Smith, W. Guise, and C. D. Robertson ; oxamining and relieving officers, Bro. G. E. Uodber. The next meeting will be held at Masterfcon.

= i - ~* A, special meeting, under the auspices of the New Zealand National Spiritualist Association, was held in the New Century Ilali last evening. Mr. 11. M. Boucher, a' visiting delegato, gave an ■ address on "Art and Artists of Spirit Life," with special to a lady medium who, under spiritual influence, drew some technical designs of an intricate nature* Mr. A. U. Nation, of Levin, on behalf of visiting representatives to the late convention, thanked the Wellington Society and its president, Mr. W. M'Lean, for their hospitality. Mrs. Gladys Cooley gave some "spirit messages," and read a few characters. During the evening a programme of musical items was presented by members of the local society. Tho effort to identify thj body of an unkuown "woman in red," who was murdered in a New Jersey swamp recently, lias resulted in .an extraordinary discovery. Thero are 1100 women niiseiug in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Newark. At the New Year's Day reception, hold at "White House, .President Roosevelt shook hands with 5646 people. Largo though the number k, it by no means constitutes a recordj for ab last year's reception the number was 7200, and tho year before 9000. The Pr-oaident's New Sear receptions last for about four hours. Extraordinary scenes took place in the streets of Vienna in celebration of the advent of tho New Year Everyone shook hands, there was much promiscuous kiseing, while from of windows sheets wero waved as flags The harmony waa toon disturbed by bands of hooligans from the suburbs Hundreds of these joined hands, and,^ encircling those engaged in the New Year festivities, refused to allow them to escape till all the ladies had been kused. Others unhoised all the cabß they met, leaving the frightened fares and tho furious cabbies helpless in tho street. s The opening of the Druce grave recalls that Rosetti secured permission, in 1869 to re-open the coinn of hia wife in order to secure- tho manuscripts of some poems which ho had buriod with litr seven years before. Some fucK incident, might have occurred h. connection with J. M. W. Turner if his desire to bo buried wrapped up in his own painting of '"Carthage" had been carried out. Tnoro was some difficulty in tolling Ui«i painting, aud the artist kept tho canvas by him Ho always said ho would bo wrapped in it when he was buried, and even went fo for as to a*k Chanlrey if, as his executor, he would fulfill his wishe9 on that point. "Xo doubt, answered the sculptor, "I shall bury you roIWd up in your picture if it 39 one of the conditions of your will, but I would take you up next day and unroll you!" , Time was when the man who could sny "I am an efficient machine" was worth his keep to society But if progress means anything, it is the suppression of tho physical by the psychical in the struggle for existence. Hewers of wood and drawers of water will not always be necessary, simply because man has learned to make artificial machines, and animated machines have no longer sufficient survival value. Even tho horse, a vastly^ superior wachino to any that can bo made out of the body of man, is being found superfluous, and the man, who is only a feebler horse, must go the same way. Thia attainment of Mipavior survive lvalue by the psychical is pioßrei's; and is thn real benefit, which will bo ultimately obtained from the invention of the machinery which the «uorl-eighted deploy*.