TEE DIAMOND JUBILEE.

Evening Star, Issue 10332, 4 June 1897, Page 2

TEE DIAMOND JUBILEE.

The Warepa School Committee have decided to celebrate the record reign on Friday, the 18th inst., when the demonstration will include the planting of a number of oaks and ornamental trees in the school grounds. Balclutha will have a procession on the 22nd, in which the Bchool children will take part, a bonfire is to be lighted on the Quarry Hill in the evening, and there will be a display of fireworks within the borough. Drs Closs (chairman) and Barnett (hon. secretary), on behalf of the honorary medical staff of the Dunedin Hospital, write :—" We are desired by the honorary medical staff of the Dunedin Hospital to inform you that they are unanimously of opinion that the erection of a new ward for children, to be called the Victoria Ward, is highly desirable, and seems to them a most appropriate mode of commemorating Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee; and as an earnest of their goodwill they have agreed to donate the sum of 100 guineas towards the fund now being collected. It is estimated that the sum of £2,000 raised by public subscription will, with the Uovernment subsidy, be sufficient to build & thoroughly good ward. The honorary medical staff wish also to point out that additional accommodation at the hospital is really needed. Patients whose ailments are not of very pressing urgency are continually being denied admission owing to lack of beds. Last week, for instance, five female patients sought admission in vain; and yesterday a child was refused admission owing to the present children's ward being full."

A meeting of the Charitable Distribution Sub-Committee was held at the secretary's office this afternoon, and attended by Messrs J. Carroll (chairman), H. Gourlev, T. Brown, J. Hazlett, and the Hon. Pinkerton. A letter was received from Mr W. P. Watson apologising for nonattendance, and stating that he would be only too pleased to join the Committee. It was resolved to canvass the town and country for donations, and make arrangements for distribution in a week hence.

WELLINGTON, June 4.

The Trades Counoil have resolved—" That, in view of the large number of unemployed in the colony, and the fact that the Government are dismissing men owing to the shortness of funds, the Council express disapproval of the useless expenditure of public money in the illumination of public buildings during the record reign celebrations.''