Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 16, 6 August 1891, Page 3

Ashurst Notes

: c : ; ; We notice irom;vthe ; JFEnippfG Stab's :; S :*epor^ Board n vi c : :aaeetinj3£ : tSktpl^tfctJ^© -^ o^paths and ; to and i £ tenders called^ jbej delivered l at the next •;■ f afreets thai^^oTiMibevniade. Now that ;r nearly- alTtfrs sections are sold, purchasers ;: aatiiially want to "get at them m wet as |our:thanks are due v to bur; Warden in the matter • of the Stanford \i street,, which certainly ■was a Jbad;^!tedi(Bbuld be.;^ We dont expect to have^ them all d^he atonce, but we. think they Bhonld.-all.; be proceeded with M*funds allb%, for^it be xetaembeted by : thej other Awards of the ! Manchesfcejr Ebad- Board, that No 6 has :- the bridge, which>has been a good source of reyehue, and ?shonld also remember that the ratepayers of No 6 have rendered themselves hable. ; in : the matter of the construction of itiik^^ bridge, and we trust thatatiuture, Board meetings that fact >-> will be' borne m mind, so that Ashurst requiremeuts . $nß; receive due atteu tio.n . v We've had Sir; Mriott, the (Temperance lecturer, in our. midst lately^ he's popular here. Another, is on /the.oth, Mr Glover, of the New Zealand Alliance, I dont think we can support more than one hotel, and if 'we . iaay judge by the numberi of boys ' and girls who wear the blueribbon, arid;, attend tibese meetings. if they keep^ in the sairie. mind when they arriye at^yfears^^pf this one hotel will tHen bet drM. up for the want of fatness. .. ?.-. . p : ;' - Biiovping, as yousjdo, what lovers of iorse flesh; New f Zealanders, .and in fact it is i father surpiisingvthat Ashurst has been able to get -.'•' along for. so many years, without a racecoarse..* Some of our farmers have determined that Ashurst ; shall not be " the unique Ashurst any longer, for about 50 ■of those round about us have formed a • Trotting Club, and are collecting subscrip tions towards the cost of making a race- | course on some iand of Mr A. Grammer's on the Pohangina river bed. '. We are yery glad to hear that our Member is improving in health. We ' trust he will be able to take his place on tiie House soon. The country can ill afiord to sp are men-of^his conservatiye stamp in her councils at the' present time, when "■so -much .is being sought to be lntro4ticed that is inimical to the best interest the tackboiie of the country — those .who -produce her exports and those who -open up her reproductive roads. The Bail way Department has been fas--cining- the Pohangina river bank with ■willows, to endeavour to stop the encroachment of the river on the bank, immediately in front, of the great emDankment. across the,river bed. It looks yery dangerous now.: If these willows fife. allowed to remain six months tbey probably take root, and become immoveable, but ir they go, bo may the -embankment.