Invercargill

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 20, 21 May 1908, Page 19

Invercargill

(From our own correspondent.)

May 18

The usual weeMy meeting of the Catholic Club was held on Tuesday evening. Owing to the boisterous weather, there was but' a small attendance. Seven candidates were proposed for membership. The programme for the eveniao; was the debate, ' Sh o uld bacKelors be taxed ? ' Brother Alfred and Messrs. Mortor Scully, Mailer, McMuHin, Crawford a nd Grace, suproUin the prorosition, and Messrs. Sims, Pound, Byrne, and Donnelly speaVing against. A vote being taken, th/ 3 proposition was carried by a majority of one. It 'is very gratifying to note the progress and improvement in the Hibernian Brass Band. It jis but six months since they received instruments, and by steady and consistent practice, under theiir able conductor, Mr. A. R. Wills, they have already secured engagements jfor thie winter months, occupying, their time, three nisrhts a weeV. At a meeting, held on Wednesday evening, it was decided to affiliate with tlis Otago and Southland Brass Bands Association and to compete at the next jcontest to be held in October.

The Athletic Football Club, secured ttoeir second victory last week, jwhen they met and defeated, the Southern Club by 14 points to nil. The second fifteen also met the Southern second, and defeated them by' 14 paints to nil. The Marist Brothers' boys, playing thwr first match dn the schools' football Competition beat the South school by 11 points to 5j