NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11485, 19 January 1903, Page 6

NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

The picnic of the employees of ths Obristchurch M«afc Company takes place on Saturday next at Amberiey. Tiro special trains will run, one from Christchuroh, the other from Templeton. The Christohuroh train left-res Clmatohurcb at 8.15 a.m.. arriving on return at 7.80 p.m. The Templeton train leaves at 8 a.m., and arrives on return at 8.26 p.m. The half-yearly meeting of the Canterbury Rowing Crab will be -held at tha boathouse to-morrow, at 8 p.m. ' The annual meeting of the Association for promoting Domestic Instruction will be held on the 27th inst., at 4 p.m., at Hobbe's Buildings. A meeting of the Harewood Road Branch of the Fannere , Union will be held in the schoolroom on Wednesday evening, at eight o'clock. • As will be eeen elsewhere, the Sisters of Our Lady of Missions, Barbadoes stwet, announce tnat t/bey are prepaid to teach music on the Clavier system. The practice Cinvier has a full and perfect piano keyboard, and - ita, action i< euoh that tie touch is the same as that of the best piano. It shuts out from the ear all distracting sounds, and<confines the attention for the time being, to the single object, the training of the fingers.. The City Council and the Linwood BoTongh Council meet to-night to confirm the special order re the poll in connection with Greater Christdiuroh. A general meeting of licensed victuallers will be held at 3 p.m., at Hobbe's Buildings, to consider the report of the special committee. The first of the two meetings of the burgesses of St. Albans xc Greater Christchurch will take place at the Wesleyan schoolroom, Rugby street, to-nigjit. The annual meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board will be held at noon to-day. The Trust and Agency Company of Australasia, Ltd., whose New Zealand office lias, for the past forty-one years been in this city, have found it necessasy to remov? to Wellington, so that direct negotiations with property-owners throughout the North Island, as well as the South Island of tibia colony, may be conducted with greater facility. On the eighth page of the issue the Company advertises for sale a number of very desirable properties. i&