NOTABILIA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3863, 4 December 1883, Page 3

NOTABILIA.

The Polk Comedy Company perform " An Arabian Night " at the Theatre Royal tonight. Members of the Blue Ribbon Army hold a meeting , in St. John's school-room at 7-30 to-night, when officers will be elected and a committee appointed for the next six months. Nominations for the Christmas Handicap, Handicap Hurdles, and Hastings Handicap, to bo run at the Jockey Club's Boxing Day meeting, close with the secretary, Mr F. D. Luckie, at the Criterion Hotel, at 8 o'clock to-night. The examination of sheep, for the purpose of testing , the merits of various sheep dips, will take place on the grounds of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society at Hastings to-morrow, the sheep being yarded at 9 a.m. Mr Robert Stout lectures on " True Democracy" in the Protestant Hall to-morrow evening, admission being free. The last of the Rifle Association's series of handicap matches will be fired on the Petane range on Saturday afternoon. John Calvert Wells, hawker, of Waitangi, has declared his inability to meet his engagements with his creditors, who hold their first meeting at tho Court House, Napier, on Friday, 14 th instant. Mr Rymer has reduced the fares on his line of coaches. The fares to Meanee or Taradale will now be Is, and to Puketapu 2s each way. The Bon"Marohe has extra large sizes in children's white granny bonnets, quite out of the common. Mr C. R. Taylor, of the Hastings Boot and Shoe Warel ouse, has on hand boots and shoes from tho best colonial makers, and also a first-class stock of English, French, German, and American manufacture. Mr H, Rawden offers a reward of £1 for the recovery of a chestnut gelding and a black mare, strayed from Hastings. Tho New Zealand Shipping Company's next direct steamer to London will be the Tongariro, to be followed by the British King, both arriving in time to catch the February wool sales. An advertiser wants a boarder.