ENTERTAINMENTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6273, 2 September 1898, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

A most enjoyable " social " was held in the Druids' Hall, Ohoka, en Monday, to bid farewell, to Air and Mrs Marshall, who are leaving the district. The hall was well filled, about three hundred being present. The chair was occupied by Mr Walters, who, with the Revs Cruden, Grigg and Fairclough, spoke highly of Mr and Mrs Marshall's devotedness to church work in the district. Messrs Wright, Evans, Chatterton and Clothier expressed their regret at losing; such good citizens and neighbours. ' Refreshments were handed round by the ladies of the district, and an excellent programme was carried through, several ladies and gentlemen contributing vecal and musical items. Mr Marshall feelingly replied, and expressed his regret at severing his connection with the .district and old neighbours. •■'.'.

■ ■'■-.-.'■' . ' : Foreign Governments make a nice tiling out of lotteries. In Italy there is a vast lottery business, which brings the Government in a sum of nearly £2,500,000 a year, r -ti ■ • j.l. Jsx * j.i ill* i ii In Prussia the profits of the public lottery amount to no less than £4,250,000. The Dutch Government gets the nice little sum of £50,000 profit out of its lottery. Portugal makes about £70,000, Denmark £58000, and in Brazil, where the Government does not itself run the lottery, but collects a tax on the receipts of private lotteries, the amount realized is £170,000.