At the annual meeting of the Wanganui Chess and Draughts Club the following officers were elected: —Hon J. Bryce, president ; Mr W. Armstrong and Dr Hatherly, vice-presidents; Messrs McFarlane, J. Anderson, Martin, Laird, Pressley Oliver and Greenwood, committee; Dr Hatherly, captain and referee ; D. Armstrong, custodian ; secretary and reasurer, H. B. Williamson. A society for instituting paper hunts has been formed in Naples, and now the permission of King Humbert has arrived for the paper chases to be made in the royal preserves at Astroni twice a week during Die month of March. Astroni is a beautiful old crater, a circular well-wooded valley with a small lake in the centre, and in spring hao all the charm of soft air, flowers, 1 and luxuriant verdure.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1212, 24 May 1895, Page 10
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