FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

Evening Star, Issue 10399, 21 August 1897, Page 2

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

The fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Dunedin Lodge, M.U.1.0.0.F.. was held on Thursday night, N.G. Bro. F. Foster presiding, and there was a good muster of members. After the lodge business had been transacted the evening was given up to harmony, P.G.M. Brundell providing the programme. N.G. Bros. Foster, P.G.s Wilkins and M'Dougal, G.M.a Bros. Barrett, Lawry, Bros. Chisholm, Williams, Ibbotaon, Alexander, Crosbie, and Boyd contributed songs • Bro. Smith (Loyal Valley) played a euphonium solo, and Bros. Brundell and Flint a mandoline and guitar duet. P.G. Bro. Willis (Loyal Valley), G.M. Bro. O’Driscoll (Loyal Albion), and G.M. Bro. Lawry (Loyal Caversham) responded to the second toast. Receipts, £B3 18s 2d. The monthly meeting of Court Pride of the Forest, Juvenile Foresters, was held in the Oddfellows’ Hall on IVednesday evening, when there was a good attendance of members and visitors from adult courts present. Bro. G. Morgan, president of the Otago and Southland District of Juveniles, presented P.C.R. Bro. W, Hogg with a framed certificate in recognition of his services in the chair during the last six months, and specially complimented him on his regular attendance at the court meetings, he (Bro. Hogg) not having missed a meeting since the formation of the society in November, 1893.

A man was charged at a Sussex police court with stealing a leg of mutton. When caught, the accused said he took the joint for his wedding breakfast, as he was to be married that day. The magistrate inflicted a fine, and the marriage took place as arranged. Assistant: “ What makes the editor-in-chief look so broken up ? ” Office Boy : ‘‘He tried to sub-edit his wife’s millinery bill, but the milliner insisted that it should go as it was.”

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