NOTES AND MEMORANDA

,: The Fuller Vaudeville Company gave the he% programme last night at the Odd : fellows' Hall very successfully, all the titetns being well received. The company *a]p|!cax again to-night. . ? ;sfr James Pettie, who for some time has ■beenlicensee of the Terminus Hotel, Christ jcbtirch, has, we understand, enterod into possession of tbe Glub Hotel, Ti.marn. :'A ball was given'"at Jollie'a Pa.'_ on Friday evening by the Hanmer Plains Collie Dog Club, and proved very successful.
The cup presented by the president (Mr J. R. Triggs) as first prize in the Canter bury Athletic and Cycling Club's road race, tii take place to-morrow, is now oh view at the Anglo-Saxon Cycle Agency, street. The race will be from l£iccartoh Hotel to Wheatsheaf and back, and a start will be made at three o'clock.
The adjourned meeting of the Health Conference, to receiva the. report of the sub committee, will be held this evening at the City Council Chambers.
The winter show of the. Canterbury Horticultural Society will be open to-day and this evening in the Art Gallery. Some excellent and comprehensive collectron/! of dahlias will be exhibited, including *>nic new varietias of the cactus kinds. The Timaru exhibitors of chrysanthemum} will send a goodly collection cf blooms, nnd there will also be a good show of orchVds. Mr Painters band will play during the evening.
The half-yearly meeting of the Richmond Working Men's Club will take place at -the Club to-morrow evening, at eight o'clock. A public meeting of women, to consider the subject of the social cancer, will be held under the auspices of the W.C.T.U. on Friday next, at 2.50 p.m., in th? Y.M.CA. rooms.
