Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 141, 21 May 1891, Page 3

Ashurst Notes

(FBOM - OUK OWN CORRESPONDENT.) , " The senators of Rome are met ; for •examine their counsels, their cares ;' they -digest things rightly. Touching fche weal of the* commons, you shall find uo public benefit which you receive, but it proceeds from them to yon." — Coriolanus., There was a meeting of the Ashurst Cemetery Trustees in the vestry of St. Mary's Church on Friday evening. Four < were present — Messrs Ingram, McColl, f Searle, and W. F. Whibley, secretary. « The secretary read tjie correspondence from Mr Macarthur, and from the Crown Lands' Ofiice, and placed ' a copy of the Gazette containing the names of the five Trustees before the meeting. He was instructed to write to the Paimerston Oemetery Trustees on 'certain matters. It is almost needless to remark that they came into office on an empty exchequer, and the -first -thing facing them is fche necessity for the Referye and laying it off in plots.' Messrs iK( 01-d, Senrle -and McColl were appointed a committee to see to the fencing and to what timber is available. The Trustees have been putting their heada together and hope to produce a plan which will giye a modem •exemplification of fche old proverb thafc " In the multitude of counsellors there is •wisdom." This is the problem— to get the public cemetery fenced by the public of Ashurst without asking them to t put their hands in their pockets. After' the next meeting, Q.E.D., it will be a fortnight before we meet again. People must curb" their anxiety as to the solving of the problem till then. Mr Alfred Gardiner, whose thigh was broken in such a bad place, was advised by Dr Macintyre to go to the Wanganui Hospital, but the dread of the shaking of that long "journey made him decide not to f,o. I hear now that he has arranged to atay iv Palmerston, so as to be near the doctor. A hospital is wanted very much in Palmerston. < We hear of a great many accidents in -he bush* during the felling seafeqp — last year we liad two fatal ones. It wilHtf a yery great boon to the Pohangintf^^rict if any one who is unfortunate enou^Mo* harm himself could be attended to aF^liOßpifcal in Palmerston. I notice that Mr'*.bc^»r__whose arm was broken &■ little while agoriT^-ii^cabout "Timber for the Spur-road school was delivered this week. ' The timber for the Mason:c Hall is beinc put on the ground. "What a worldold institution is this order of Masonry, for the arrangement of a masonic foundation was found when remoyi'ng " Cleopatra's Needle " from Egypt. That work i of ancient art was erected 2200 years ' before the Christian era, long centuries before -with her beaut.ful face, <« switched' men's hearts out of their . omß •». Those who put it there in the S«fc pl^e» had long sine* gone— and their . W-Jb too. The old Egyptians did as we Sf- Sn in the nineteenth centnarv, and named * /alhing'afber a Mrs Langtry or a Beaconsfield.