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Evening Star, Issue 3165, 12 April 1873, Page 2

The Golden Age and Peninsula both advertise excursion trips for Monday, The attention of the police is directed to a nest of scamps—black and white, male and female—who have taken up their quarters in those tenements in Maclaggan street, near the Australasian Hotel, whose nightly drunken revels and abominable language not only disturb the peace and quietness of the neighborhood, but are a source of annoyance to persons passing through the street.

The Union Permanent Building Society will hold their usual monthly meeting next Tuesday evening, from seven to eight o cluck. The fortnightly meeting of the Commercial Building and Mutual Investment Society will bo hedd next Monday evening, at the usual hour.

We observe that on Monday next the regular time table of the Dunedin and Port Chalmers Railway will he set aside, and that trains will run at intervals during the day from 9 a.m. till G p.m. We notice that a meeting is to be held on Wednesday first, at 3 o’clock, in the Wesleyan < 'hurch, to take steps to form a Female Befuge in Dunedin. A Refuge is much needed hero just now, and we trust a goodly number will be present to assist in founding so laudable an institution.

We would again remind our readers that the complimentary benefit tendered to Mr Sykes by the members of the choir of St. .Joseph’s Church, takes place on Monday evening next, at the Head-quarters ( rillshed, Octagon. A very attractive programme of sacred and secular music is presented, and Mr Sykes will, in addition to playing the overture to the first and second parts, favor the audience with a solo on the piano. We have no doubt that all lovers of good music will muster strongly on this occasion We are requested to state that there will be a final rehearsal at four o’clock on Monday.