NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11478, 10 January 1903, Page 9

NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

The names of the prize-winners in the children's letter competition to Father Christmas at the D.I.C appear elsewhere. Whe art union of the Pioneer .Amateur Bicycle and Athletic Club will be drawn at the Club Rooms on Tuesday next, at 8 p.m., under the supervision of the Mayor of Christchurch. The third local wool sale of the season will take place on Friday, 16th inst., at the Canterbury Industrial Hall, commencing at 9 a.m. It is notified elsewhere that all tickets on Abdallah and Rkketty in connection with the New Brighton Trotting Club Meeting, will be payable on Saturday, 10th, and Monday, 12th, at the times mentioned. ' __c sale" of tickets in the Mount Kembla motor car art union, in aid, of the sufferers by the Mt. Kembla disaster, closes on January 31st. * «_ The annual meeting of tlhe Midland Saleyards Company will be held in Messrs Matson and Co.'s land saleroom at 2 p.m. to-day. ■ • . ■ Entries for the New Brighton Gala close .M this evening at Burkes Tattersall's Hotel, and the Athletic Club Rooms, New Brighton, from 7 to 9 o'clock. Mis Herrick, Saperintendent of Herrick's (Mission Home, desires to acknowledge with grateful thanks reeei.pt of £16 from "Ladies of Methven," per favour of Mrs Morgan. The Wookton Band, by kind permis- . • sion of the Sydenham Town Council, will perform a selection of sacred music on the rotunda in the Park, Sydenham, at 2.30 p.m. to-morrow. A collection will be taken on behalf of the band's expenses in atten_tng the Master-ton contest. During the past week the Glassblowing Exhibitions were well patronised by school children. These exhibitions will be continued every afternoon and evening. We have received from the Royal Insurance Company a handsome blotter, a neat desk calendar, and a w__ calendar. Fruit trees obtained Iron Nimmo and Blair, Du&edin, are hardy, wall grown, and will give food results. Seed for trkws.—• (Ad**.*