TOWN & COUNTRY.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1659, 12 January 1895, Page 2

TOWN & COUNTRY.

There was a large attendance of spectators at the courthouse yesterday attracted by the hearing of the larrikinism cases. A notice of interest to lovers of music, by the well known instrumentalists, Messrs Ellis and J. W. Wood, will be found m another column. The annual business meeting of the Washdyke Trotting Club, will be held on Tuesday next, at 8 o'clock, at the Royal Hotel. The members of the Timaru Naval Artillery are notified this morning that a special parade of the company is ordered for Wednesday evening next. A full and punctual muster is requested. The financial result of the Caledonian gathering atOamaru is the carrying over of a small credit balance. Accounts amounting to £190 were passed for payment at the directors' settling-up meeting. The ninth annual exhibition of the Geraldine Floral and Horticultural Society will be held m the Volunteer Hall, Geraldine, on Thursday next. Entries fall -due on Wednesday, and all exhibits (except cut flowers) must be ait the hall by 10 p.m. on the 16th inst. A diversion was caused to spectators assembled to witness the departure of the Royalist on Thursday, by one of their number, m loyal excitement perhaps, tumbling off the wharf into the water. He was got out not much the worse for his bath, though his costume was not improved. We have received a letter from Mr M. C. Orbelli, m which he complains that our report of his remarks at the Geraldine Farmers' Club meeting on Monday last was very inaccurate. As he does not furnish us with particulars we are unable to make any corrections, supposing them to have been necessary. The sand m the bay is beginning to settle on the rocks m the angle at the root of the north mole. At all events there was a small quantity there yesterday. It will probably be some time yet before the patch of rocks is buried, and the old bath filled with clean sand. It will be a great improvement to the bay when this has come about. Early on New Year's eve a stone was tlirown through one of the plate-glass panels beside the door of the New Zealand Clothing Factory's shop. The person who threw the stone would have been brought before the Court yesterday, but he is m the hospital, and proceedings have been deferred for a week. At the Wesleyan Church to-morrow the Rev. C, E. Beecroft will preach at 11 and 6.30. Morning subject—" Brought out of Doubting Castle " ; evening subject — "A sufficing vision." The anthems for the day will be " The Lord is merciful " (Stanley), and " Blessed are the people" (Bradbury). Choir prelude at 6.20. Mr Beecroft preaches at Fairview at 3 p.m. We have received from the agent of the New Zealand Shipping Company, their pictorial almanac for 1895. The "picture" is an exceedingly well executed representation of the s.s. Rimutaka at sea, by some process which looks very much like a photograph, but, we think, is not one. The monthly calendar is speoially printed for the company. The date numbers for each month are m blue except that of the sailing of the company's monthly passenger steamer from the colony, which is made conspicuous by being m red. The Good Templar Lodge Pioneer of Dunedin had a great meeting on Tuesday night. Among those present was Bro. Scott from Nelson, who was the first person to be initiated into the Order m England, and m the British Empire (m 1868). The event of the evening, the Star reports, was the initiation of His Worship the Mayor of Dunedin and his son, who were welcomed with many congratulatory expressions of goodwill by the assembled sisters and brothers. Bro. Fish, m the course of his remarks, gave it to be plainly understood that he was not there for any purposes of personal benefit, but mainly for the purpose of setting an example to his son, as he believed that the final settlement of the temperance question would rest m the hands of the rising generation. The proceedings throughout were marked with much enthusiasm. A well attended meeting of directors of the South Canterbury Caledonian Society was held at their offices, Arcade, last evening ; the president, Mr William Priest, occupying the chair. The president said that he had to warmly con" gratulate them over the result of the new year gathering. The financial result was not so great as he had expected ; still when all the surrounding circumstanceß were considered, it was very satisfactory. The balance sheet showed that the receipts from all sources were £378 5s 2d, and that the substantial sum of £230 had been given m prizes. The credit balance was between £60 and £70, and this added to the sums m hand left the society with a total cash m hand of £108. A list of accounts was presented and passed for payment. Letters were read (1) from Father Hurlin thanking the society for the use of the ground on Boxing Day, and enclosing £1 Is, a donation which was accepted with hearty thanks; (2) from Mr W. St. Lindsay, one of the hon. timekeepers, enclosing £3, as prizes for next year's running high jump, a liberal offer which was most heartily accepted ; (3) from the Licensed Victuallers' Association,, bearing on sale of privileges and draft of programme, to which the secretary was instructed to duly reply. Hearty votes of thanks were passed to the officers of kindi'ed societies and others who had so ably assisted at the sports, and the services of those gentlemen who had acted as handicappers, and assisted at the concert, were suitably rewarded. Tne question of altering the ground so as to make it more suitable for cycling and other track events was gone into, and the President, Messrs W. Gunn and Emil Hall were appointed a committee to meet the Tourists Cycling Club and go fully into the whole matter. A committee was appointed to arrange a " social " to wind up the summer year, and after passing a most hearty vote of thanks, on the motion of Mr Gunn, to the president for the- hearty and indefatigable way he had worked at gathering and concerts, the meeting closed.