Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 153, 20 June 1891, Page 3

Ashurst Notes

♦: ..' fOtTK OWN COKRKSPONDENT.*j The Hiwinui people are' going to start ft Xibevary and- Musical Society among tb.<£sasslYes, to ob. conducted on the lined of a Mutual linprovemeut Society^ The President is Mr Goldsbury, tho master of the school, 'Mr A.- Morine, is Secretary; and Messrs Shepherd* Hills -and droves .' the committee.. They propose to have their, meetings fortnightly. 1 may say " there is a very substantial lot of settlers , in that part of the Manchester' Block. I 1 think their enterprise iiV the' direction - mentioned is sufficient proof of this. • Mr Corpe, of Makino, had asyou-k'now •a very narrow escape whilst attempting to_croßS. the^Pohanglna > River ini'resh. TTe does'nt want to ppb nnvone else in the fc'i. p>.» I-v.unent, ftnl has made a yer goodoff H r ; to .the *,ertleis there,. that " they* will put up the posts and find a ca£ e » he will" prpvine • sufficient '-wire rope >to reach across the liver bed. He is go«d enough to say it can remain for tlie public use after, he" may_ have Yejnoved his jnill. This will be a sroat boon, asthe FoxtonBlock people will be able' to cross in all •weathers... It is,not\"very.long ago that poor yoniig- Withers 'lost his life while attempting to ford -the river during a fresh. It is a simple thing- to put a wire rope over the river, but you, see no one thought of ifc or' put it in practise till Mr ■Corpe came along. , , > .-Our new sawmill is gettjng:under way. The three- partner?, Messrs 'Stevens, Wood, and Potts, are all experienced saw- , millers and will not take long in putting ; the mill in working order. 1 notice it is , named the Phoenix. It has just arisen from the ashes of the old one on the Na-. Road, so the name is evidently well , chosen. . '; ' ? v