NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

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NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

A presentation will be made to Mr "W. W. Collins at the Lyceum to-morrow evening at eight o'clock The trial of the Osborne reaper and binder will take place to-day, at 11 a.m., at Ohoka. Tho annual general meeting of the Diocesan Choral Association will.ts held at 8 p.m. on Monday, 23rd inst., at the Guis' Friendly Society rooms. A lecture will be (riven in the Alexandra Hall this evening by Messrs Gooch and Drurv, of London, on "Tho Scripture Union at Home and Abroad, - ' illustrated by limelight viewe.

A meeting of the Highland Rifles will be held' to-night after parade, to elect a Lieutenant. ' The «ummer session of the Metropolitan Schools of Medicine, in connection with the University of London, opens on May list, and the winter on October Ist. The Schools, which provide complete courses of instruction and all the requirements for obtaining degrees in medicine and surgery, are attached to the following "Hospitals:— Charing Cross, St. George's, Guy's, King's College, London Hospital, St. Mary's Middlesex, St. Thomas's University College, and Westminster. For particulars, etc., application must be made to the Dean of any one of the Schools'. The polling in connection with the election of a member of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College, in the place of Mr T. S. Weston, resigned, will take place to-day. The candidates are Messrs J. C. Adams and H. G. Ell, M.H.R. Messrs John Fuller and Sons have taken over the unexpired portion of Mr Dixs lease of the Opera House. They propose resuming their popular vaudeville entertainments in Christehurch, Dunedin, and Wellington on or about 'March 14th. The employees of _\L O'Brien and Co. have decided* to hold a picnic at Rhodes Bay on Friday next. •'The Doctrine of Future Punishment" was the subject of a lecture in the Lyceum last night by Mr W. W. Collins.