LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 3 April 1909, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

The city is at present free from all ufectious' diseases.

lt is notified that the Motueka Valley Horticultural Autumn Show will be held at Tapawera on Easter Monday from a.30 to 9.30 p.m.

The last open=air meeting of the present series will be held on the^ Haven Road to-morrow evening at 8.15. lhe speaker will be the Rev. B. L. Thomas.

The subject of tho monthly ''Talk to Young People" the Baptist Church tomorrow evening willbe ''Esau : or penny wioe and pound foolish. '

The proceeds from the St. Patrick's concert held recently amounted to £10 1& 3d. which will be sent to Archbishop Redwood, who will forward it to MesTXv the relief of the sufferers by the earthquake.

Attention is drawn to the Salvation Army festival celebrations to-morrow and Monday. Adjutant Hildreth, Social representative from Dunedin, will conduct the services. On Monday night a fecial programme is to be given, entitled ''The King and Queen of Harve t " (in character). The goods gathered will'be disposed of tbe same evening.

■ ■Your Honour' '-"your ors !"P' were the flattering titles with which a *nion secretary, with his mv.d on other protidure, addressed the president of fhe Wellington Trades and Labour Council.

A conference of members of School Committees in the Nelson district will be held in the Boys' Central School on Sn-urdav, 17th inst. The principal Vusiness is to consider recent legislation b> which school committees have been^deprived of their powers in connection ,^th the appointment and transfer of teachers.

The Rev. C. H. Garland, who has been the pastor of St. John's Methodist Church for the past three years, and is now leaving for Christchurch, will preach his farewell sermons to-morrow, taking for his subject in the ™*™V; ■■The Author and Finisher of our Faith," and in the evening, The Sum of all Prophecy."

The NMson Jockey Club's races were continued to-day at Richmond Park with fine weather, and much increased attendance. The bookings by railway from Nelson exceeded four hundred which was an improvement on yesterday. Tlie first race yinrted ut •noon, and the racing was proceeding as we went to press.

The stearo trawler Norah Niven met with a mishap a few miles out in the Bay this morning. Her trawling gear became entangled with her propeller, rendering her helpless. The Anchor Company's steamer Koi went to her assistance and towed her in. The Norah Niven has been placed on the hard, and it is expected that the gear will be disentangled by the next tide. It is thought that little damage has been done.

It is notified that meetings of householders for the election of School Committees will be held in each of the school districts within the educatin district of ~elson on Monday, 26th inst., at 8 p.m. Nominations of school committees must bo made a week before the meetings or at the meetings. Secretaries of school committees would oblige by posting or otherwise forwarding the names of the new committees for publication a 6 soon after election as possible.

A meeting is called for Tuesday evening next at the Chamber of Commerce Rooms for the purposo of forming a Nelson Branch of the National Defence League. Great interest is manifested throughout the Empire at the present time in tho question of defence ashore and alloat, and the Premier has intimated that he intends at the approaching session of Parliament to bring down a measure providing for universal military training after the method advocated by the League. It is of the greatest importance, therefore, that the membership ol the League should be increased as much as possible before Parliament meets, so that any steps taken by the leaders of the movement may have the weight of large numbers behind them. Membership of the League being open to either sex, women are specially invited to attend the meeting on Tuesday evening.

Mr W. Norton-Taylor announces that bis subject for to-morrow evening's lecture is entitled : "A Voice from the Grave." By local regulations the trout fishing season in the Nelson Acclimatisation district ended on 31st March, although the soason continues open till the end of April in several other districts. By Government Gazette, notification, and othtr means, the Nelson Society has endeavoured to make the information as public as possible, but unavoidable misconception has arisen among somo visitors who have come here to conclude t'neir angluig tours, only to find the rivers closed. While regretting that this is so. the Committee of the Acclimatisation bociety are bound to carry out their own regulations for the conservation of trout, hence it is hoped that visitor, w order to avoid unpleasantness will confo.ni with the conditions as they find them-

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