FEILDING NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 757, 4 March 1910, Page 5

FEILDING NOTES.

Miss Lilian Guy, % who for years was' of great service to the Apiti Wesley Church, has been made the recipient of a hand-somely-bound index Bible on, the eve of her departure for Palmerston, where sho intends following the profession of teaching. •"'■.•■ The dry weather is responsible for numerous complaints regarding the shortage of water in the Apiti district, and tho milk yield has naturally been affected. Feed for stock, however, is plentiful. The popularity of tho Rev. P. J. Cossum, who is leaving ■ the local Primitive Methodist congregation for "Wellington, was demonstrated at a valedictory service at which the speakers were the Kevs. G. Budd .(Presbyterian), W. Smith (Colyton), and Carlisle (Rongotea) Pastor Swinerd (Baptist), Captain Avrill (Salvation Army), and Mr. E. W. Neal (Wesley Church). Presentations were also made to Mr. and: Mrs. Cossum.

As mentioned in a previous communication, Mr. Ernest Short, of Waituna West, sprang a very welcome surprise upon the FeUding Athletic Club, which was iu a moribund state through lack of money, by giving one of his valuable Eomney sheep to the ram fair, each buyer to rej turn, the ram for sale until it was finally Surchased. The final purchaser was Mr. ! . G. Forlong, whose bid was 2SJ guineas, the total amount realised being 260 12s. 6d. The auctioneers (Messrs. Gorton and Son, Ltd.) generously declined to take any commission for conducting the sale. Tho buyer, in the order of purchase, were:—Messrs. E." Short, 3gns.; W. E. Baker, 2gns.; F: Kensington 2gns.; Gorton and Son, 2gns.; F, Kensington, 2gns.; E. Short, 2gns.; F. Kensington, lgn.; W. J. Phillips, lgn.; J. Bruce, 2gns.; J. M'Kolvie, lgn.; Dalgety and Co., 2gn.; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., 2gns.; J. H. Whisker, S. Standen, C. Carr, W. F. Jacob, IV H. M'Lean, D. P. Buchanan, A. P. Pitzherbert, Abraham and Williams, W. Gibson, and P. Maxwell, lgn. each; C. Bull, £1; J. Henson, Northcott, and P. Blundell, 10s. Gd. each; D. G. Forlong, 281gns. Pastor Swinerd is leaving Feilding. He has received and has accepted a call from the East Oxford Baptist Church, and will probably leavo for his new sphere of work next month. He cam© to Feilding from North Invercargill nearly four years ago, and, within that time, Feilding has had a church erected, and much general work has been done in the district. Last month Mr. Swinerd spent his vacation in North Canterbury, and ho then conducted two services in tho oldestablished church at East Oxford.