NOTABILIA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3594, 18 January 1883, Page 3

NOTABILIA.

Ben Allah, ventriloc|uist imd conjuror, makes his first appearance in the Theatre Royal to-night. After the performance a gift distribution will take place. A temperance meeting in connection "with the United Methodist district meeting -will be held in the church, Carlyle-street, tliis evening at 7.30. St. John's Band of Hope meets this evening, when the members will be addressed by Mr Ash ton. A banquet, will be given to the Fire Brigade delegates at the Clarendon Club Hotel at 8 o'clock to-night. The time for receiving tenders for the erection of a fever ward at the Waipukurau Hosintal expires to-morrow. Particulars of Mr Archibald Forbes' course of four war and royal lectures are published. Special trains run from Hastings and intermediate stations on Monday and Tuesday evenings to afford country residents an opportunity of hearing the lecturer. Mr Monteith's weekly sale of stock, vehicles, farm implements, Arc, will take place at the Horse Bazaar as usual on Saturday. The parish school of St. Joseph's Monastary re-opens on Monday next, and the ladies' school on the 29th instant. The seventh annual general meeting of the Hawkc's Bay Permanent Building and Investment Society will will be held in the society's office, Tennyson-street, on Thursday, "Ist February, and at the close a •special general meeting for the purpose .of having the society incorporated under the Building Societies Act, 1880, will take place. George Alban King, of Woodville, commission agent, has filed a declaration in the Supreme Court that lie is unable to meet his engagements with his creditors. The first meeting takes place at the Court House, Napisr, qu th,o 30tU instant.

Mr S. J. Ruston offers a reward of £1 to any person who will give information that will lead to the conviction of the offenders who broke down his fence and stole fruit from his garden in Chaucer road. Applications are invited by the Napier Chamber of Commerce for the position of secretary to that body. Further alterations and additions are made to Mr M. R. Miller's list of sheep for sale at the ram fair at Hastings on Wednesday next. Mr Monteith has 1000 fat wethers for sale. A governess for the Wainui school is wanted. Mr Monteith holds an auction sale ot cattle and horses at Beccroft's yards, Hastings, on Thursday next. A special train in connection with the ram fair leaves Napier for Hastings show ground on Wednesday morning at 8.45, returning in the evening. Mr E. W. Blackwell, Hastings-street, lias a four-roomed house and outhouses, pleasantly situated on the hills, for sale. Mr J. H. Vautier has reduced the price of Newcastle coal to 32s Gd per ton at the yards, or 35s per ton delivered for cash. Merssrs W. Rathbone orC. Arrow. Waipawa, have for sale, in lots to suit purchasers, Lincoln rams and cross-bred wethers. lodized Sarsaparilla, prepared only by W. E. Woods, Chemist, Napier and Hastings, is a compound for cleansing and purifying the blood. A number of new advertisements will be found in our " Wanted " column.

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