Bulls Items.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 41, 8 September 1883, Page 2

Bulls Items.

(fhom ouk own correspondent.) From all quarters remarks are made o£ the extraordinary number of twin lambs. that are being dropped this season, and were the weather more favorable the percentage would be surprisingly large, but the last few days of unkind weather ha» been* fatal to many. The steamer Napier arrived at the i Port ou Wednesday from Patea after a very stormy passage, and left again on Thursday with a full ca'go of live stock. A committee meeting of the Horticultural Society was held on -Monday last, when a secretary ; was appointed. The Society seems to have taken a new lease of life. Ihe subcommittee men who were appointed to canvass for donations, viz., Messrs Moore, Scott and Sopp, have met with great-encouragement, and the forth coming shows promise to be as successful as any that hare been held under the auspices of the Society. Our Police and R.M. Courts are still in an unfinished state; though 'the contractor has completed his contract weeks ago. The fittings are not finished; Why this delay is,' one » f, those things a u .iel\at can never, understand. " '; ,1 ■ , Exactly three weeks elapsed from the time the order was posted by the Secretary of ,tho Bulls Clifton Public Library, for Sydney, and the arrival oi the books at Bulls, and the, directors are well^ satisfied with the way Messrs J. J. Moore, and Co. have executed the order entrusted to. them.-. I- .: ■-.- . .-v/'/^'r. :{-,!<;■';; /\^>~- .-' There ,is some talk" about starting a Brass :Barid. ,Ij feaiv ; the vplaco'ris too small ; though there 'are ! several of our townspeople who hKye been useful members of other bands, yet we dp not; possess anyonewho fejelsh c.6;mp^eteiit, ; : '£o^talce-the posjtion : ofb.and ;nia^ a banU without a tliorbugulf "competenb "head cannot' siicbeed. ; \ A . large congregation assembled last Sunday evening at St. Andrew's to hear the Rev; ;Vlr Tudbr^ of VVhanganui, who delivered ,au impressive address on the duty' of public worship." The ■ musical portions of 'the service were well rendered by the choir which is exceptionally strong at present and is evidently taking great pains in the preparation of the music of th a Church. '" - ' :,' Gordon Forlong is . holding reTival meetings in connection with the members of the Wesleyan Cliurch; arid the Sunday services have been well attended.; c. '^:r.Oh-a\fntu>e;6ceasioa-.l;willy'try.-;tp-giTO a description of some of our oott»ger*3

gardens.