Inter-provincial Cricket Match.— The cricketers of the province are invited to at tend a meeting at White’s Hotel to morrow evening at 7.30, for the purpose of electing a committee to make arrangements for the annual inter-provincial match with Otago. New Investment and Loan Association. —A public meeting of all persona interested in the formation of the above Association will bh held this evening at 8 o’clock, in the saloon of the Canterbury Music Depdt. _ The report of the provisional committee appointed by the public meeting held on Oct. 17 will bo brought up. Educational Association of Canter bury.—lt is proposed, in accordance with resolution passed at the last general meeting of this Association, to hold an << examination of children attending the common schools of the province some time during the month of January. The date and locality of the examination will be advertised, with full particulars, as soon as arrangements are made. Trial Well.— We are informed that the men employed by the City Council to sink a well at the junction of Feterliorough street and Whateley Road, with a view to discover ing a new artesian water-bearing strata, have struck shingle at about 120 feet, and which it is hoped will answer the desired purpose. The rods will bp put down to-day, and the plug removed from the pipe in order to teat the strata. Rifle Match. — A match between repre sentative teams of the C Y.C. and Christ church Artillery will he fired at the Sand hills range to-day. The conditions are five shots each at 200, 300, and 400 yards, Hythe position and targets, the stake at issue being a sapper,- which is to he held at the Golden Age Hotel, on the evening of the 30th lust. The men will fire in two squads—the first going down to the range by the first coach this morning, and the other hy the 4 p.m. coash. * Nelson and Cobden Railwat.— The Superintendent of Nplson has practically ad mitted that he has no longer any reason to hope or believe that the Nelson and Cobden railway will be carried into execution. 