Timaru

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 43, 22 October 1903, Page 6

Timaru

(From our own correspondent.) Timaru is settling down to ordinary life after the excitement of the band contest. The management committee has a most satisfactory surplus of about £50, after an expenditure of some £400 While Ihe Wanganui Band has taken chief honors, the Timaru Band occupies a very prominent position, being second in the quickstep and third m the test piece In the trios, quartets and solos several seconds and thirds were won by the local players, -while m the E flat horn solo competition Master E Mellow, aged about 14 or 15, gained first honors, beating; several reputable players. The South Canterbury Pipe Band also succeeded in gaining the coveted premier position. The visiting bandsmen were highly pleased with Timaru, and several letters ha\e been reoeued from the different secretaries returning thanks for the hospitality accorded to them. A poll of the ratepayers of the borough took place on the Hth mst. to sanction a loan of £6000, for the purpose of sheet levelling, and £2500 for improvements in Caroline Bay Contrary to previous experiences m taking polls to sanction loans, both the loans mentioned were appro\ed of by a large majority at the first poll The street levelling, especially in the suburbs, is urgently needed, and as to the Caroline Bay improvements, the loan i)s a most advisable one, as the teach is now quite a resort for townspeople and visitors, and when the back ground is laid out and ornamented it should become one of the most popular seaside resorts in New Zealand A meciir.p, of the local branch of the Hibernian Society ■w as held on Monday last, and laigely attended. The societal") ieported that on the previous Sunday the president and se>eral officers and members dro\e to S( Andrews and mmatod four more members, all being pioposed by Bro Sullivan. Bro. Donovan (president) conducted the initiation, with the aid of Bio Fitzgerald (se.retaiy) and Bro. Sulh\an, V P., who acted as warden The \isitors were entertained at dinner at Mr J. Kcane's, and subsequently dro\e to Bro P Ryan's station, 'Esbank, ' where they wc-ie accorded a most luMiiv welcome by the genial piopnetor The dine to Esbank v\ as most eniojable, and the country and i;iis>h aiound the property were much admired Before lcaun» Bio Dennehy, on behalf of the visit ois, returned thanks to Bro Ryan for his hospitality, eulogising the gieal inteicst Bro. Ryan had taken in lhbeinianisni during the past twenty years, and hoping lie would ha\e his -\\ish realised in seeing inj the neat future a strong branch established at St. Andrews. The visitors left foi- home after a most enjoyable time, Bro. Sullivan, always alert, securing several candidates for membeiship during the day.