Bulls Items

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 30, 14 August 1883, Page 3

Bulls Items-

(FHOM OUB OWN COHEESPON'DENT.) Bolls, August lit' A successful telephone 1 exchange' took place on Wednesday evening bej^een the Marfon and Bulls post offices||>ermission having beeu obtained fro% the secretary, Mr Gray, to t*st telephones manufactured by a resident of Marton, Mr C. Parkinson. The, plone used at Bulls was brought down jfrom Marton and fixed up at 5 o'clock by foe maker, Mr >, Parkinson.. Mr Geotffi' ]j aker was in charge of the Marton instil iment. After exchanging greetings wit t ihe -several Mr Nicholas j)lajj d y a selection of sacred airs on his cabin* S organ, which was encored and responded! pi^}Mr!Nutt, I iu the Marton office, then teirg * song; | which was followed by i cperimeirts in the connecting two rec^ whfs th« had been made at the head out :e*fW"eliip|gton. * These proved very succa jf^J; and thus «naiiled three persons to! receive at the, same time. Several aa jed: airs were then played on the organ at Bulls, and th« Marton company resp< aded by giving ' variations on the cornet. It Greo. Baker also gave a selectiou on %he 'flute. A cornet solo was also playeU in the Bulls, office, the whole of the experiments were most satisfactory, and great credit is due, to the manufacturer for the very neat* 4 manner in which the whole of the work' has been completed. * j I am informed the Secretary of the Public Library has received a donation of works, which has increased the books in the library to over 600, and at a meeting held on Monday a farther supply of the newest books issued was ordered from Sydney. Great interest is taken by the residents in th« library. I also hear that, the directors ate about preparing a catalogue for printing, so if any residents in your township ire in possession of any of the books of the Clifton Public 'Library, they would confer a favor by returning them at once. The directors (estimate that a large number of books have been forgotten to be returned. [' The Harmonic Society has in practise "Weber's Mass in D, wnich they propose giving shortly. ' v Constable Manning is getting about a«min. but in still very weak. The Bulls-Greatford tramway has died a natural death . The opposition of the lower 'district was too. strong, and the cood people of Bulls frill have to remain as at present, two centuries behind the ,time. We are such a truly rural happy family* ■ '.'■ Good Templary#,gaiaj§g strength daily,|but the Btee. l ibbonis in as*mnoleutfstate^Sir^yil jam Fox's lecture, promised some tu&s si lie^ia 'uot-^t pre-