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Evening Star, Issue 11678, 10 February 1902, Page 4

tion Board -would lie obliged to issue stringent regulations dealing with the question of punishing school children.

The number of patients admitted to the hospital last week was 24, mid 2-1 were discharged, leaving 107 inmates of the institution on Niturday night. There were three deaths (Matthew Clydesdale, David Williams. and Dinah Hickey). The annual picnic of the Port Chalmers Presbyterian Sunday School was held on Saturday at Waitati. The children, with their teachers and friends, left Port Chalmers by special train. The day was oil that could lip dr■■died, and the spot chosen was an admirable one.' A most enjoyable day was spent. The band of the Boys’ Brigade, unde/ tbvir conductor (Mr C. M'Gonnell), played a number of selections, which were greatly appreciated. The outing was perhaps the most successful ever held in connection with the school. News lias been received in Melbourne that Mr Charles Tilbury, one of the basses of the Musgrove Opera Company, who visited Dunedin last year, committed suicide by jumping overboard from the steamer on which he, Signora Cecile Lorraine, Signor Salvi, and other members of the company were returning to Europe. The intelligence has not surprised anybody, for it was known when he was in Dunedin that Tilbury, as the result of a long drinking bout, was hardly responsible for his actions; indeed, his behaviour on board the steamer which took the company across t) Melbourne was anything but that of a rational man. Of the deceased as an artist a contributor of the ‘Australasian’ says: “He was a beautiful bass, of peculiarly noble and mellow quality. So fine an organ was it that Mr Joseph Tapley, who journeyed to Australia in the same steamer with Mr Tilbury, prophesied to him that if he look care of himself and decided to remain here, he might become the leading basso of the Commonwealth. Mr Tilbury was specially good as the Landgrave in ‘ Tannhauser*’ the King in ‘ Lohengrin,’ and Lotario in ‘MignoO.’ In his earlier days he was an organist in a Roman Catholic church in England.”

A notice to members of Court Pride of Dunedin, A.0.F., appears on this page Montague’s great annual clearing sale is now on. Parties furnishing should not miss this opportunity.—[Advt.l A meeting of those in favor of tendering, o nbehalf of tho City a dinner to the Right Hon. the Premier will be held on Wednesday next, at 4 p.m. Everyone interested in artistic house decorations should inspect the metal ceilings and wall coverings at Briscoe’s.—{Advt.] Grocers and drapers close their shops on Wednesday on account of tho picnics. The grocers go to Mount Stuart, on tho Lawrence line, leaving Dunedin at 930 a.m. A striking example of twentieth century development is seen in the Anglo-Special and Humber Cycles. Anglo, Princes street.— [Advt.l The sword of honor to Brevet-colonel Robin, C.8., will be presented on Wednesday next, at 8.30 p.m., in tlxo Garrison Hall. Subscribers and any of the public interested are invited to witness tho presentation. Hendy, hairdresser, has large stock new wavers, Geisha frames, hair ornaments, side ccrabs, etc., just landed. Inspection invited. -{Advt.l No sale, no rubbish, no humbug; everything at lowest prices. F. R. Hall’s, “Under the Billies,” 186 and 222 Princes street south. —[Advt.j Mr Morris, photographer, Princes street, Dunedin, finds it is not generally known that his charge is one guinea per dozen for cabinet portraits of children. Any extra charges are for vignettes, groups, large mounts, also tho various methods of printing.—[Advt.]