THE WORKING MEN'S CLUB.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5347, 9 April 1879, Page 6

THE WORKING MEN'S CLUB.

The usual half-yearly meeting nf this Club took place on Friday, thn 28 ;h ult, and was very numerously attended. Mr D. 33glin, the E resident of the Club, occupied tlia chair. Onehalf of the Committee he con.ra'ulated the members on the continue i success of the Club. Although they had only been abla to \>&y off" LIOO of the debt on tbs building, this, along, with the other moneys expanded in ordinary and extraordinary ways, showed tbe Club to beyond doubt one of tbe moat flouriihintf institutions ia the Southern Hemisphere, aid second, to nona of its Mnd. This half year the audithad been completed with the aps's'ance of Mr Younginan, the Comuittee having hetn unable to find out the whereabouts of Mr Pries. The C iminittea bad caiued subscription lists to be emulated amongst the members of he Club in; aid of the sufferers by lha recent co'l'ery explos:on at Kaitangifa, being anxious that all who had not yet subscribed (•honld have an opportunity of doing so, and thus showin * that the Club as a body hid the cams t>t heart as well. as the other societies -who hai to nobly responded t > the call. Tha Committee had received letters from the Auckland, Napier,, Wellington, and Inveroar^ill Clubs advocating the desirability of r.c-pr: ■cation, oae clubtowardi another, mid had submitted the legal point to thiir solicitors. If a favourableanswer were returned they felt certain that the proposed reciprocation woull be beneficial to all concerned. A nnmb?r of the incst popular weekly periodicals hivl been ordered for the library. The balance sheet showed that besides ■ the balauc9 in the sinkii g fund there was a balmce of Ll9 12< 3d in tne Colonial Bank.

On the motion of Mr Blaxdon', seconded by Mrßaxtek, the baliuce-i'hei:t nun adopted. The meeting then proceed id to the election of officers for the ensuing half-year. Mr Henry Spears was elected prcskl-nt, Mr YV. Woodland, was re-eleoted treasurer, Mesfra M'Millan and Eyro were appointed p.uditjr?, and the following Kentlemen were el"cted to the Committee: — Me.srs S. A.Davis, A. D. Djuovaa, T. Baruett, if. C. Craagh, and VV. Gow. The me ting clopei with the usual compliment to tb.B President.

On T«c«lay evening a number of the friends of Sir iSrooks, who has ted since the formation of the Clnb the position of stage manager of the Working Men's Dramatic Club, met for the purpos jofwisbinghim a elea«ant voyage to the Home ■ Country, 1 whither he wll shortly proceed on account of ill-health. Tho President of tha Club, Mr S. A. Davi^, during the proceedings baiH. d to Mr Brooki a handsome and costly gild locket, engraved with the recipient's ■■ ininngram, and inscribed as folios s:—"Prasin^d to S. E. Brooks by a lew friends andmembers of the D. W. M. A. ]). Club. Duandin, 28th March, 1879." Mr Brooks made a. fitt'nj response, and several fcia-ils and songjr. w re given to enliven th-) pr ceeiiitig3.

The LMte County Council at i's list meat ing unanimously voted the sum of LIOO for the p irpuse of assisting the Acc'imali atii>n Society in tneir efforts to introduce fish and game, &0., into the County. At the same mosting the rabbit nuisance was brought tip, »nd the best meins of meeting the difficulty of taxiEg: rabbit-dois led t i considerable di« uosion, in tha course of which Dr Doug'a* i eiuarked i h t land which carried 4000 sheep last year would not abw carry more than ICOO, owing to the rabbit nuisance. It vis eventually resolved—"That, rabbitera Ye cha-ged tax fir 10 dogs, allabOT© that number tj lie exempt." . ', '