MEETINGS & BUSINESS NOTICES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14450, 24 May 1911, Page 2

MEETINGS & BUSINESS NOTICES.

A public meeting to discuss means ot- celebrating the Coronation is to be hold in the Pleasant Point School on Friday evening, instead of next Tuesday. A meeting of the committee of tlie Timaru Coursing Club was Ua'id in the Club Hotel last evening, Mr H. Howard (President) presiding over a full attendance of cided to hold' a meeting on the l'3th and 14th of July next to run j* Maiden , Stake of £SO and a cup valued at £ls IDs; as well as a supplementary stake lor dogs defeated in tho first awl second rounds, for a sweepstake of £1 Is per dog. Nominations for the two important pigeon shooting matches at Saltwater Creek next week close with the secretaries to-day. One is a £IOO handicap, for the first day. the other the New Zealand' live-bird championship. A la-rge number of uominnt'ons have been received from all over this island, and two. qjoo'd days' sport -n.re anticipated. The ground is on'the Otipua

lagoon flat, about 150 yards from th? hotel, ami is considered by good judges as suitable u snot as could be desired for the purpose. The United Orange Lodges to-mor-row hold a sxxjeial festival m their hall Bank street. In the afternoon from 2,30 p.m., there' is to l>o a sale of work and of gifts of various useful and ornamental kinds, and afternoon tea will be provided. In the evening an entertaijiin-cut programme will bo added. .The wooeeds are to be added to the hall fund. Some exhibition spurring by J. FitzKimihon&'s pupils can bo coontlrs evening at the instructor's 100 ms opposite the Timor u Hotel. The National Mortgage and Agency Company aro 'holding a clearing sale to-morrow on account of Mr J. Holwell at his farm at Seadown. sale commences at 11 o'clock nrd luncheon is provided. . Messrs and Sons intend having n special sale of furniture' and fum : shtngs for a- few days, cwing to want of s]>ace for new goods arriving. Every article will be reduced and freight paid on all orders of <JOs and over to the nearest railway station.