Ashust Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 100, 11 February 1893, Page 2

Ashust Notes

— ♦ LFBOM OUH OWN COBBE9FONDBNT.J We are still forging ahead. Another twostorey building is in the course of ' erection. It is intended for— well, to ) take a leaf out of the Feilding book— an Ashnrst Buckingham Palace. I Messrs H. J. Stevens and Co., saw--1 millers, on the Feilding road, are building ) four substantial houses on the Ashurst flat, near the Railway Station. They are > to be thoroughly finished inside and out, and then offered to tenants. Applications are already being made for Jthe places. A cricket match with Bunnythorpe ■ will be played here on Saturday. > The pionic for the scholars of the An. • glican Sunday School will be held on 1 Easter Monday, the next general holiday. Advantage is to be taken of this so that it - can be made a congregational gathering. The Primate of New Zealand held a r confirmation service in the Ashurst t Church on Thursday. ; The Secretary of the Cemetery Trustees f has received a reply from the Land Office in answer to a request made by the , Trustees for a grant of about ten acres of ground suitable for a cemetery near i Ashurst. The reply said that the matter would receive consideration. It is hoped that the ground asked for— a portion of the Government reserve near, the road bridge— will be obtained. There is an old Maori burying place there, which would be included within the fence. ■ ' A harvest thanksgiving will be held in r the Anglican Church here on Sunday ' next, commencing at three o'clock. Any : donations of fruit, vegetables, andsrain r will be thankfully received. They will afterwards be sold for what they fetch, i and the proceeds devoted towards paying 1 for the new church ground. A well. ) wisher in Feilding has forwarded a dona. . tion in money. Bis kindly feeling is apparent. .....