The Evening Star SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1900.

Evening Star, Issue 11251, 26 May 1900, Page 4

The Evening Star SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1900.

There was no sitting at the Port Chalmers Magistrate’s Court this forenoon. Northcote’s Kineinatograph Company are doing a record business at the Princess’s Theatre. The house was packed last evening. To-night marks the close of the season. At the request of the Committee of the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association the Dunedin Choral Society'have decided to issue a limited number of tickets to enable country visitors to he —uicert on Tuesday night.

Another pent house greeted the AlhamnV;i, coni puny last evening. The usual duiK'xo will be presented to-night. |he ,1e " switchboard at tlie Dunedin .Telephone Exchange, made in Antwerp, am! just fitted up by a staff under the control of Mr CJrchiston, was opened at two o’clock this afternoon. The Dunedin Exchange, the third to start in New Zealand—(div;stchurch and Auckland preceding it—was opened on the 26th April, 1882, with between (iffy nurl sixty subscribers. The number is now 1.100. The new switchboard wilt accommodate 1,550 subscribers, anil it can be extended to take on 5,300. V> e feel sura tlie public will bless the department for the improved state of telephone affairs that may now he expected. A fair number turned up to the sale of nork in aid of funds for the, Hope of Dnncoio Lodge of Good Templars, in the Dower Dull, Rattray street, last night. Those at the stalls disposed of a goodly number of things, while amusement was" afforded to visitors in the shooting gallery. The side shows, in the shape of microscopes, graphopbone, galvanic battery, and quoits, also contributed their share, while songs were interspersed at intervals. The Rev. Mr Sinclair made a speech pn the good the Order had done, and the progress the Prohibition party had made during the last fbvee years. The bazaar will be open this evening, when the remaining articles will’ be disposed of at very reasonable prices.

A notice to members of Masonic lodges appeal's in I bin issue. Muir ami Mood-c’s studio. Entrance, Morav place (under the verandah).—[Advt.l The attention of members of the Dunedin Bowhng Club is directed to a notice in this issue. Tbs names of tiic principals to take part in the Choral performance of ‘Eli’ on .uicsdny evening appear in this issue. Savory and Co.’s (of London) cigarettes, the ■mest in the market; a new shipment Just to band. J. Mendelsohn. Princes street. —I Advt.] In the Choral Hall on Monday evening Mr Maskesy will deliver a lecture, ‘’The Political Outlook from a Watcher’s Standpoint.’ Anglo-N.Z. Cycle Company. Repair department fully re-equipped; prices right; workmanship first-class.—[Acivt.'l The police wish to notify all witnesses at the Supreme. Court on Monday that they will require to be in attendance at 10.30 a.m. The anniversary services in connection with Hanover street Baptist Church will ho held tomorrow. Tea meeting on Tuesday evening. Cycling up to date; free wheels and run brakes; acetylene lamps. Bikes for hire. Records booming. At Cooke, Howlison, and Co.’s, King street.—[Advt.l The Citizens’ Band will play at St. Clair tomorrow. .Given a fine day, they should attract a, number of our visitors to that favorite resort. Mow tan and black kid gloves, braid backs and dome fasteners, 2s 6d and 2s lid up; new stockings, silk neckties, tray cloths, - laces, straw and felt hats. At T. Ross's, direct importer.—[Advfc.] A general meeting of shareholders of the Dunedin Starr-Bowketfc Building Society will be held in the Stuart street Hall on' Monday evening. A most ingenious attachment for instantaneously fixing rubber hose to any water tap is to be seen at the City Hardware Store, opposite Bank New Zealand. There is now no necessity for screw couplings or union.—{Advt.] In the Mornington Wesleyan Methodist Church to-morrow evening there will he a thanksgiving service for the recent victories. KipiTng’s ode will be sung. Those desirous of procuring a good stylish wateiproof coat for tho winter season should inspect the superior stock selling at cheap prices at the Clothing Factory, Octagon.—[Advt.] The president of the New Zealand BowlingAssociation requests members of the various bowling clubs to attend the funeral of the late Mr Vv. B. Taylor to-morrow afternoon. We have purchased all the negatives taken by the late Mr F. L. Jones during tire last ten or twelve years. Copies or enlargements may now ha obtained from Muir and Mocdie.— [Advt.] Tomorrow evening, in the Garrison Hall, the Rev. W. A. Sinclair will commence another series of addresses, ‘ Talks on Timely Topics,’ the subject of the first address being ‘Plague the Penalty of Filth.’ The Rev. W. Scorgio has undertaken a series of nineteen Sunday evening lectures on ‘ Solomon, his Life and Philosophy y in the Mornington Presbyterian Church. The course will commence to-fnorrow evening. Messrs Gresham and Boot, surgeon and mechanical dentists. 65 Princes street, Dunedin (late A. E. Boot). Mr Gresham was for seven years a pupil of tho late Mr Alfred Boot, and has been practising successfully for the last eleven years in Invercargill. Aif fees strictly moderate, consistent with highclass work. Consultation free.—[Advt.]]