CELTIC HOCKEY CLUB.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 14

CELTIC HOCKEY CLUB.

Tho first annual general meeting of tho Celtic Ladies' Hockey Club was neld on Thursday evening. Iho following o£iicera wero elected: — President, Roy. Father Hickson; vice-presidents, Mesdames R. O'Connor, Dwan, M^ackin, and Macarthy, Messrs. Kennedy, Skcrrctt, Casey, and M. O'Connor ; secretary. Miss Mellsop; committee, Misses Murphy, Fama, Lawlor, Breen, Doherty, Pprry, and Strickland ; selection committee, Misses Fama and Murphy, and Mr. Wrigley. Mr. Wrigloy has consented to act as coach. MANAWATU ASSOCIATION. [BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PALMERSTON N., Bth April. Tho Manawatu Hockey Association at its annual mooting to-night received from tho New Zealand Association an offer of a match with the English team for a guarantee of £75, but decided that thoro was no chance of recouping from the gates, and so declined.

A dotectivo had been put on an anonymous letter case. Tho rocipient of tho letter said to him : "Tho thing consisted of but ono short page, and yet thoro wero eleven words spelled wrong." "Then tho criminal,"' said tho defective, promptly, "was> cither a typewriter or a sign painter. Is there a business directory handy?" In Cornish chapels the invariable ruio is for tho men to bit on one side of tho building und the women on tho other. A visitor and his fiancee, who wero staying in the district, went to chapel, and just i before tho service began the young man was greatly astonished when the chapel Etoward, seeing that tho couple wero seated in the same paw, came over to him, and in an audiblo voice eaid : "Como on out of that, mo son. We don't '«ive no sweetheartin' here." She Knew — The other day a little girl of tender years, who was a regular pupil at tho new County Council nchools, fell from a ladder while at play. Her mother caught her up from tho ground in. terror, exclaiming: "Oh ; darling, how did you fall?" "Vertically," replied the child, without a moment's hesitation.