GENERAL NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17005, 16 May 1917, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS

At Monday evening's meeting of tho **'3 Good Companion Chess Problem Club Mr R. A. Cleland handed in the ■ possible number (28) of correct solutions' of. the problems. Other good score sheets L. D. Coombs 24, and F. "W. Claytcto: Zt-MU A vote of thanks was passed to : C. Wliito for his generous gift of fhroq' .-'j books to be competed l for by members of ' '-;3C the dub. It was arranged that solving com- Jy'Si petitioas be held during this moni&,, and July, and also that a composing' com- iVs petition be held. ;'• Hie monthly meeting of tho Dimwlm Athenaeum Committee was held on Monday night, Mr A. Marshall (vioo-presidecnt) in the chair. It was reported that -12$:£$fl volumes had been added to thesince last meeting,-that 25 new members. joined the institute,' and that the presentations had bocn received: —-The Offi- '?0. cial Year Book of New South' Wales 1915; tiio New Zealand Official for 1916; and tho Report of. the Otago cation Board for 1916. It was "That this meeting- place on record its of the loss tho institato has sustained the- sudden death of Mr John Angus. Angus had been continuously a member of Sfl tho institute since 1903, and his busings Sip capacity and literary judgment had been of ' great value to the institute." It was' : alscoi§| decided that a copy of tho be'Sf communicated to Mrs Angus and with an expression of tho committee's path.v. Mr W. Sooular was appointed ■ member of tho committee, to fill.' the ''ijt vacancy created by ihe death' of Mr -Anigw^h To-morrow evening the Rov. Robert Evans will bo inducted to the charge of thefe|® Presbyterian Church in North-Bast Valley. Mr Evans has ministered to the oongrcg&tion - at Waflcukfi for two years, but during'thetflt past four months had exchanged pulpits withtho minister of St. Andrew's Church, Avtck- - -r§| land. This, by a coincidence, is the church from which tho R«v. H. B. camo to Dunedin some .11 yea.l* ago. A social gathering to welcome Mr and Mrs bo hold on. Monday