Birmingham Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 41, 22 September 1892, Page 2

Birmingham Notes

* I FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, j I am afraid after the brilliant week the town had over the opening of the Wesleyan Church, that we shall fall back into the old groove, and requires some very startling events to take place before we can send out any items of interest to the outer world, for, \ you must now, Mr Editor, that Bir- I mingham is the " world " for some ! people and they fancy that the eyes of the whole colony are watching the events going on in little Brumajem. Well, we are to have a very interesting lecture in the Town Hall on Saturday by Mr JMoss entitled " First aids to the Wounded " and as this place is near a bush district where there* are many men employed in the rather dangerous occupation of bushfelling, this lecturette at the Literary Society gathering should be well attended as patients will be taken care of and well bandaged. Mr Guy is to give a reading of his essay " Tidiness " versus " Untidiness." Mr Bryce will conclude his lecture " Maori Legends " and rare fun is expected to be got out of the " Pickwick trial." Oh, the road by Major Moore's — good for the coach builders! broken springs, etc. Now the heavy rain has come once more the roadways are fearful. There is some talk of starting a Cosmopolitan Church here, also, that the Salvation Army are coining to drive the devil out of Birmingham. We shall soon have a fine cricket club at work, and from the the class of men and youths joining it our " Invincibles" in Birmingham will be hard to beat. Nothing like out-door sports and social gatherings to make the inhabitants of country places rub off the rough corners and stiff ways people get into. The roadway, or High street, but I suppose it ought to be called Kimbolton road, is being dotted over with sundry store buildings. It certainly would be better if some sort of style could be introduced so that a more regular line or class of buildings were erected. This sort of "slap it up get away from it " is very painful to behold, as in a few years time the shanty's will be quite out of touch with the requirements of the township, and the owners of the property will be sorry they did not erect a very much better class of structures.