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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22367, 14 September 1934, Page 3

Some difficulty being, we understand, experienced with reference to the selection of a suitable place of meeting for the Provincial Council during the sitting of the Supreme Court, which commences to-day, we cannot do better than suggest the engagement for the purpose of the Theatre Royal—the boards of which are not at present occupied by any regular dramatic company. Another addition has been made to the entire cart stock of the Province by the Omeo, which steamer brought the celebrated pure-bred Clydesdale horse Champion, which was purchased by Mr John Blair, at a cost of L 525, for this place. This day is the first of the Jewish New Year, and ig kept as a day of religious observance by the Hebrew community. Pending the erection of a Synagogue, the Masonic Hall will be used as a temporary place of worship. According to the Jewish chronology the world has been created 5023 years. The owners and occupiers of property in the Octagon meet to-morrow evening, at Tower’s Royal George Hotel, at 7 o’clock, to memorialise the Government <o erect a public market on the Octagon; to memorialise the Town Board to make footpaths and to level the ground so as to facilitate the traffic, and to erect a larger number*of lamps on the eastern side of George-street. Vaccination, ag a protection against small-pox, seems to be very freely resorted to in Hobart Town; and the alacrity with which the facilities offered at the public hospital are being taken advantage of is an example which might be very well followed here and elsewhere. . . . , . . Subscriptions have been received in aid of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church to the amount of L 3,059 6s 7d. The expenditure has amounted to a total of L 4,299 9s, leaving a balance of debt upon the church of L 1,243 2e sd.