Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 122, 7 April 1891, Page 3

Ashurst Notes

tt^ p (FROM QUA OWN COBREBPQNDBNT.) ~" member used his influence in out behalf, and got a promise' from the late Minister of Lands, to grant the use of a railway" reserve at Ashurst to our town for a recreation ground. The Haleombe people^ have their ground from the railway, The "department is not likely to use the reserve in either town for many years, but the present Minister, Mr Seddon, will not do anything as yet, but refers us to the Railway Commissioners. We are also rather indignant at haying only a flag-station. We must invoke the aid of other powers. Macbeth. r i :rS. „' 1 ACT I. Enter 8 witches (R— -lw— y ComrT-BB— rs) ,„ When shall we, three meet again, In thunder, lightning or in rain ? Enter Hecate '(S— dd — n}-j---k Btay7 ( here r cbmes Macbeth J Enter Macbeth (Ashurst) — Mac'Bangitikei, the thane of Feilding — during theiate king's reign, obtained 1 -promise of a piece of- ground wherein we could disport ourselveß withal. Wbfen^canjve have have it ? We also want a proper railway station. Hecate (S— dd— n)-^ "- " Hal Huiril Yes I You muatiuyoke the aid of my, three sisters. ACT 11. , i If idnight air thick with smoke ; horizon lurid with glare of bush fires — stoats ** 'creeping— thunder cauldron boiling— 'the three witches discovered dancing around it. ' I Three Witche's'(B— lw— y C-^-om— ss— rs Here comes Macbeth ! rt Ist WitchHail 1 City of the lost tribes ! -2nd WitchHail to thee! Thou home of Temperance. «rd Witch— " Hail! Thoushalt be Queen ofPohangina hereafter. Jill- ' > ' .What Wouldst thou? Macbeth (Ashurst) — , „Tell i me, by-, thine unknown power, " ' when will my requests be granted ? 'All^- ' ' ; -i We'll show. r (Tbey dance round cauldron) / 'The Incantation — Double, double, toil .and trouble, Fire burn, cauldron bubble. Peace I The Charm's made up. .c>, » i Oeacle. All— ° ' • You will get your wants supplied when the Great Wood will move. . From the symbolical language in which this 'oracle is clothed, 1 I gather that we must get the "great wood or, in other words, the settleis~of r the great bush ■country to inake'their'wa'rits known by a petition:" 1 -< c"' - , ( The approaching; local option poll here isjikely.to create a deal of interest. Parties are about equally divided for and -against an increase of licenses. ' The position^ this— The Gorge Hotel has been in 'existence 'from very early days; twelve 'months ago 'a fine building known as the Ashurst Family' Hotel was erected by Mr Thos. Nelson, and finished just about the 4ime- the licensing committee sat. -The -committee granted a license, which was ■annulled shortly after, on the ground that the committee had no power, as the inhabitants of Ashurst had voted by a large inafority against any increase. This was the first ca3e in^ the colony, with the resnlt.that.the wish of the majority is law. 'Smce^the license has been taken away the' building has been used 1 as a temperance hotel. The campaign is about to be re-