LODGE MEETINGS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 79, 5 April 1910, Page 8

LODGE MEETINGS.

Court Lady Glasgow, No. 8261, A.0.F., met ha e\tuing, T.C.U. Si.>-tci- Joiicm presiding. The quartet ly balance-sheet, a« read by tho .suiretaiy, \\as adopted, hhouing a fcati.-i;utoiy increate both in fund* and nu-mbirf-hip. During tho evening P.C.K. bister IVstur was prebented with a ioKin of c k tei'.ji on tho oecaniun or hei- having the cit\. It was decided to celebiate the comt'annivcreaiy by holding a 'Wial." The fortnightly meeting of Poneke l^odge U.A.0.D., v..ib lield hut evening, lho. Gray, A.1)., in tho chair Two biother* were dethtred on the nick fund by the b.irdi. It was decided thut next Sunday the brethren will assemble at the lodge-room and don ie«olia, to take pail in the piocesMon of friendly Eotietiea fiom the railway station to the Recieation Giound, ". here two bands, will give select ioitri. The object is ti# promote the fund-* of an orphanage for children. One candidate nnwnlcd hiiru^*t£ and wa* duly initiated.

In the undefended uvi! vise Diesden Piano Company v. John Alec Brtt, £13 1», tosts £1 10.i 6d, judgment wus givun for plaintiff by Mr. liastldtn, S.M., today. The Empire Pictures will be rhown in the Town Hall to-ntorro\v evening. A varied herl«* of pictureb has been arranged, tho principul film illustrating the events and career of Napoleon. The telllers in the Oncwhero distiict are suffering fr«m a variety of pests, cr.terpillars, grasahoppers. cri(k«t», and lust, but not least, the California!! quail, which are co numerous that many people consider poison to be tho only way to reduce their numbers. Ou some of the bush "burns," says a correspondent to the Auckland Herald, they are like; poultry in a farmyard, and tho feelings of men who arc sowing mixture* containing a largo nmount of clover at Is per lb, may easily be imagined, as tho quiti leave very little behind them. The proposal to make this jvar a close season in viewed with alarm, and it is r-ylerstood that the Government is to be again approached on the matter. Babbits, ako, hitherto quit* unknown iv this district, are this season appearing in alarming numbers. If tlie seUlers mike a determined effort \ now to shoot and poi*on them it would j save them endlns trouble in the future, j In spite of I.Jip pestfi, feed is very | plentiful, »tock look ell, and ireaiwiy •uppliar* rjLfton thcmielvet well istie- j ned with the tntotff. output.