CURRENT NOTICES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11898, 23 May 1899, Page 6

CURRENT NOTICES.

The next term at the Girls'High' School will commence on Wednesday, May 31. To-morrow (Queen's Birthday) ordinary time-tables and farea on the Christchurch Tramway'Company's-lines>will be suspended. The.arrangements for the day are-advertised in this issue. The bakers' a,nnual ball will be held in Hobbs's Buildings to-night. The music will be provided by Mr C. Wells's band. An excursion train will run to Timaru tomorrow, leaving Christchurch at 7.55 a.m.

The second lecture of Mr S. Hurst Seager!s course on Ancient Architecture and Ornamental Art wiU be given to-night at the Canterbury College Lecture Tbeatre. The subject for to-night is "The Art of Chaldea, Assyria and Persia." At the Canterbury Horticultural -Society's Exhibition at the Art Gallery on June 1, the Governmeat special prizes for export iapples will be offered for competition. Intending competitors can obtain all information from the Secretary, Chancery Lane..

A "social" and dance will be held on board the ship Conway at Lyttelton this evening. The proceeds will be in aid of the Shipwrecked Mariners'' Society. The launches Canterbury and Waiwera will run trips to Governor's Bay to-morrow. The Sunday trips will now be discontinued for the season. '

A public meeting in connection with the Women's Political Association will be held this evening in the Metaphysical Clubrooms, Hobbs's Buildings. Mrs. Cunnington will deliver an address on " The Necessity of State Inspection for all Public Reformatories." The as. Jane Douglas will run an excursion to Pigeon Bay to-morrow on the arrival of the 8.55 a.m. train from Christchurch, and the John Anderson will run to Diamond Harbour and Purau on the arrival of every train.., . .

Mr John Fuller's Myriorama Company will appear at Kaiapoi to-night. To-mor-row afternoon they will give a .matinee, at the Theatre Royal, and in the evening the entertainment, "The Rose, Shamrock and Thistle," will be given. The annual meeting of the. North Canterbury Chrysanthemum-Glub- will be-held on Thursday evening at eight o'clock in Glenross House (late Club Hotel), Rangiora. The Sydenham and Addington United Cricket Club will hold a " social " this evening in the Druids' Hall, Sydenham. The Corrick Family returned to town yesterday, after a very successful tour in the surrounding districts. The family will appear at the Oddfellows' Hall tomorrow evening, when they will be assisted by Mr C. Read and Mr Seager. At the conversazione which will be given in the Art Gallery on Thursday in connection with the Cathedral Completion'Fund, the Hoii C. C. Bowen has consented to address those present, • and the Bishop of Christchurch will also give an address. The committee of the Canterbury Rowing Club has decided to stop the sale of tickets for its dance to be held on'Friday. The weekly meeting of the committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union will be held at 5 p»m, to-day at the Clarendon Hotel. A public meeting in connection with the St John's Branch of the Church of England Temperance Society will be held this evening in St John's Schoolroom.