CURRENT NOTICES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11887, 10 May 1899, Page 6

CURRENT NOTICES.

The following meetings, will be held today ;—Hospital Board, special meeting, 10.30, a.m. ; Charitable Aid Board, 2.30 p.m. ; meeting to form Carriers’ Union, Queen’s Hotel, 8 p.m. ; meeting of bakers. Temperance Hall, 8- p.m.; Labour and Liberal Association, Carlyle Street Hall, 8 p.m. ; Christchurch Cycling Club’s- Committee, 8 p.m. A meeting of the Women’s Social and Political League will, be held in Pratt’s Buildings at 8 p.m. to-day.

A special meeting of the City Council will bo held at noon on Monday, to hear objections to the .burgess lists. The Rolleston Gun Club will hold a pigeon match at Rolleston on May 27.

An election will be held to fill two .vacancies on the Amberley Town Board at Amberley on May 25. Nominations must be sent in by Tuesday next. On Thursday, Ascension Day, special services will be held in the Cathedral. The Bishop will preach at evensong. Special trams will be run to and from New Brighton to-morrow in connection with the Christchurch Racing Club’s autumn race meeting. ■

A special meeting of the Lyttelton Borough Council will be held on Monday to hear objections to the burgess list.

The opening “ social ” of the Caledonian Society will be held at the rooms to-night. ■ The special px-ize list in connection with the Christchurch Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Club’s Show this year is an unusually attractive one. It includes twenty-one club trophies of £3 each, twenty-one champion gold medals, and some fifty other Special prizes. At the last meeting of the Club, a cash prize of £2 2s was presented for the most points in silver-spangled Hamburgs. All special prizes will be given tMs year in addition to the ordinary prize-money. Visitors to the “Early History Carnival,” which will commence at the Opera House on May 15, will witness one of the most entertaining and varied programmes ever placed on the stage of the Opera House. The Carnival, by means of pretty marches and tableaux, will illustrate the rise of the province of Canterbury. An efficient- orchestra, with music speciailv written, has been engaged for tins Carnival, which will continue for twelve nights. The Joint Committee of the Christchurch Musical Union and the Motett Society intimate to subscribers that unused tickets will ho available for Thursday’s concert, but that thev must be exchanged at the broking office. ■ •

Tlv winter sowing->ueatings in cnrrrclio’i vdlh the Destitute Patients’ Fund will begin on Friday, Mav 12, and will be held on every alternate Friday, at 2.30 p.m. in the sitting-room of the Nurses’ Home.