Palmerston North

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 24, 15 June 1905, Page 5

Palmerston North

(From our own correspondent.)

June 4. The local branch of the H.A.C.B. Society met on Tuesday last, three members being initiated and five candidates proposed. Everything is ready for the annual social on Wednesday next, and judging by the sale of tickets there will be an unusually large attendance. The energetic secretary, Mr. Albert Rickard, is on the sick list at the time of writing, but I trust he will be sufficiently recovered to take charge that night On Saturday last the Wellington Comedy Club paid their first visit to Palmerston, when the Irish play, ' The Emerald Isle,' was staged in the Zealandia Hall with signal success. Several of the Club displayed undoubted talent, and those who had the pleasure of listening to them were very pleased, and had the weather 'been favorable a much larger audience would have been present. The company, assisted by f je of our best local amateurs, Mrs. J. Russell, c t- Misses Lily White and Clifford, rendered a splendid programme of sacred items after Vespers on Sunday, the proceeds being in aid of St. Patrick's Choir.