Birmingham Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 134, 2 May 1893, Page 2

Birmingham Notes

[FBOM OTJR OWN COKB-BFO-TDinri 1 Rain and mud are ther order of this day. The main and the only road through our township is in a dreadfuLstfttoi r{she mud is ankle deep. The traffic is very heavy, and I think something ought to be done to remedy this state of things. "If the road is so bad now, what will it be like in mid- winter? ■ ;/ The contract for the Apiti road, on this side of tho river, Is finished, and igood work has been done. The contraot for forming and metalling the two miles on the other side is now being carried ont. It seems a pity that : soft, useless! metal should be on the roads when metal ofthe best quality can be got at either end of a road which is only two miles in length. I scarcely think that some of the work done— or rather the metal pot on— to this part on the road will be passed by the engineer. Mr Mclntire, the new teacher, has commenced his duties. Miss Hicks, the-as-sistant-teacher, commenced ber duties yesterday, The Wesleyans are to have a social on Wednesday evening next. Mrs Little, of Bunnythorpe, will give a lectnre, andralso do some character reading. This ought to be an attraction. Mr Tolley, senr., will preside. ''„ I bear that the Sunday-school scholars are to have a social evening. The date is not fixed! Mr Anyon, the indefatigable Superintendent, haa the matter in hand and no doubt will make it a success. The sawmill, of which Mr Thpmae Lowes is one of the proprietors, wiU be started shortly, and ought to prove a boon to this part of. the district where timber (sawn) is apparently very. scarce. Mr Joe. Dixon, of Bunnythorpe, _ occupies the Wesleyan pulpit next Sunday morning and evening. He also take* the Kiwitea service in the afternoon. It is thought ' desirable that the Farmers' Club, and the Kiwitea Literary Society should amalgamate and 3 pnt iip a building for the use of both. Nothing definite has been- arrived at, but the idea meets with the approval of the members and will, I think, be carried ont.