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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1203, 24 February 1880, Page 2

The Ofccpopo Athenaeum is, we believe, encumbered with a liability which it is desirable for the welfare of the institution to pay ofl" as speedily as possible. lii order to do this the Committee have arranged to' give a concert and dance on Thursday evening next, and have secured the valuable assistance of a large number of ladies and gentlemen to take part in the entertainment. A capital programme is promised, and we foel sure the residents in the township will, cheerfully render r tU&...-Cpij>mittee• every' assistance in their praiseworthy effort to free the Athempum f)}om - ~ j At the Resident Magistrate's ,Court today, before George SuniptLf,,JlCsq.; J. P., .Sitiiniel; .Snjith, foe $i lowing two* no scs to wander at.large, was fined ua, and William Baker, fpr a similar pU'eiice,

A necessarily brief report of j Pastor Chiniquy's last evening's lecture in anothec column of .this issue. The; second and last lecture will be delivered to-night, The subject is announced in an advertisement.

Mr. Onseley, the schoolmaster of the Livingstone public school, "will sever his connection with the school within the next fortnight, and will proceed to Victoria, it is said, to enter the ministry of the Catholic Church. It is announced in another column that Mr. George Greenfield has transferred his auction business to " his new and commodious mtot/in Thamfea-streefcff. whiish. Iwgk. since its" occupation,'' by Messrs. /-jjfelieari and'Hayes, been fitted up so ; as to reniler it: in every respect suited to the business to conducted therein. ; r r 3s