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SOCIAL MEETING, 29th Oct. 

 The Winter Session was inaugurated on Friday evening, 

 October 29th, by a Social Meeting in the Museum, College 

 Square North, when the rooms of the Museum, crowded with 

 the members and their friends, testified to the continued 

 popularity of the Club. After tea had been served, the 

 arrangements for which were most successfully carried out by 

 several of the lady members, a general meeting was held in the 

 lecture-room — the Rev. Canon Grainger, D.D., M.R.I.A., 

 President of the Club, in the chair. The president, having 

 made a few remarks drawing attention to the principal objects of 

 interest on view, called upon several of the exhibitors for more 

 detailed explanations. Amongst these was the Rev. Canon Hayes, 

 of Dromore, who directed attention to a drawing by Thomas 

 Drew, Esq., R.H.A., of the proposed restoration of the old 

 market cross of Dromore, part of which at one time formed the 

 base of the public stocks. This cross, if re-erected, will be taken 

 charge of by Her Majesty's Board of Works, which will, 

 furthermore, undertake a large part of the cost of the necessary 

 base or pedestal, &c., provided enough public interest is shown 

 to justify the Grand Jury in granting the balance of the sum 

 required — possibly about £^0 — or, also, if this amount can be 

 raised in any other way. A resolution was then proposed and 



