FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1556, 27 September 1912, Page 4

FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE.

The final meeting of tho Festival of Em. pi re Sports Committee is to bo held at the Grand Hotel on Monday evening next. The balance-sheet to be presented shows' receipts amounting to -£537 -Gs. 4d. and the expenditure to ,£504 Is. 3d.,''leaving a balance to credit, of £33 f)«. Id. Under the expenditure heading Jil.K) 13s. llld. was paid to Tlios. Coo!: and Son, and .£l'J 7s. (o tho P. and 0. .Steamship Co. for fare?, etc. Tho teams' expenses were as follow:—Ha'skins, .KB (Ids.; Champion, vCSG 10s.; Opie, JMG 125.; and Woodger, MO 3s. Gin a body meet a body .■■■ Qaueia* to the kirk .*. • • ■ , If a body sneeze unduly—meed ■ o body , smirk, Better far to sny "ma brither Diruia' look so dour, We'll cure oor coughs and colds thegither Wi' Woods' Grt'at Peppermint Cure. 22' Olympia, the huge amphitheatre at Kensington. London, seating 10,000 persons, has been purchased by Sir Gilbert Citeenal, a_director of; the International Horse Show. "It will-lie'controlled," stated his secretary, "by a private limited company, with Sir Gilbert 'as ehairmnn find Sir Eiehard Cooper and Mrs.-.lames Buchanan as directors. The hall will be conducted on the same lines as hitherto— that i?, il. will remain a venue for vnr> in'is,.kinds of shows, exhibitions,'' nnd the liW ...