CURRENT NOTICES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11888, 11 May 1899, Page 6

CURRENT NOTICES.

' The following meetings will be held, to- ' day:-—Agricultural and Pastoral. Assqcia- - tion Committee, 2 p m.; New' Zealand _ Amateur Athletic Association, Council, •"'V'tJcc'dental Hotel, 8 p.m. . , , The Christchurch Musical Unipii, com- > Vhcd with the Mottett Society, will repeat Handel's oratorio "Samson at the . Opera -House' to-nighb. Subscribers who were unable to us° their tickets on Tuesday night may exchange them for tickets for to-night's performance, on application at the booking office. A meeting of the newly-formed Christchurch Athletic Club will be held at the

Clarendon Hotel at 8 p.m. to-morrow. •' Mr Malcolm Brown will give an exhibition of a fire escape at the Hereford Hotel ' to-night at 8 o'clock.

A, general meeting of members of the ' Liberal and Labour if ederation will be held in Hobbs's Buddings at 8 o'clock to-morrow n ght. The Corrick Family will give a concert - at Kaiapoi to-night. - The M'Adoo Jubilee Singers will appear ■■• at Eangiora to-night, at Kaiapoi to-morrow inight, and at Lyttelton on Saturday night. A public meeeting will be held under the auspicss cf the Canterbury Women's Insti- . tute in the Metaphysical Club's room, ■ Hobbs's Buildings, on Sa'urdvy evening, when, the delegates to the Nat onal- Council of Women will report upon the recant session in Auckland. '! .' A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Ti&rly History Carnival, to be held in the' o|>era Hoose next week, in aid of the . .funds "of St Mary's Catholic Church, was- ' held last evening, the Rev Father Marnane " presiding. It was reported that arrangements for the historic drama, under: the management of Signor Borzoni, were progressing favourably. The drama, which was a great success when perfomed by Signor Borzoni, in Dunedin some little time •'ago, deals with the advancement of New Zealand from the state of savagery in which , the first Europeans found it up to its present high state of civilisation. The piece will be staged with full effects, and the performers are all being thoroughly trained in 'their parts. An excellent orchestra has been engaged. The carnival will open on Mon'day evening, and. will remain open for a .fprtnight.