TIMARU.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 10, 8 March 1900, Page 6

T I M A R U.

(From our own correspondent.)

March 5. The Marist Brothers' school is at present undergoing a thorough overhaul. A meeting was held last evening in St. John a Hall, by the members of the Aloysian Society and others, when Mr. Risßel was made the recipient of some useful articles as a token of the esteem in which he was held by the members of the Society. Mr. Rissel is leaving Timaru for Wellington, where he ia to fill the position of electrician in one of the Government departments. The Rev. Father Tubman, who was in the chair, made the presentation, and «poke ia very complimentary terms of Mr. Rissel's work in connection with the Society. A meeting of ladies, convened by Mrs. Hole, was held on Wednesday afternoon in the Borough Council Chambers, to consider the best means of helping the St. Patrick's Day Sports Association. Among those present were Mesdames Hole, Lindsay, Mahoney, Laing-Meaeon, Grahams, O'Dowd, Mullin, and P. Reilly, and Misses Priest and Wilkinson. Mrs. Hole was voted to the chair, and Miaß Wilkinson was appointed i-ecretary and treasurer. Apologies were received from Mesdames Egan and Burns. It was unanimously agreed to give trophies to the volunteer corps, giving various exercises ; also, to enlist the services of young ladies to sell button holes. It was also decided to provide refreshments for tbft social, most of those present promising subscriptions for that purpose. Miss Priest kindly offered to fit up the stage for the concert.