Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 140, 16 May 1893, Page 2

Ashurst Notes

A chess club is about to be started here. Mr Sexton, one of the Knights of the Tournament, lives here and will, no doubt, be the life of the club. . : A meeting is convened for Saturday night, having for its object the formation of a rifle club. Mr Franklin has sold his property on the Todd's road at £6 per acre. Mr Vautier, of Fox ton, moved his household goods to Ashurst on Friday. Several new arrivals lately. The Ashurst Dramatic Hall is being. _ dismantled. After undergoing certain | alterations under the skilful hands * of Mr James, one of the Palmerston architects, it will, I understand, be called the Empire Hotel. Mr Nelson is also building an hotel. The Ashurst Buffet, recently opened as a boarding house, is also likely to enter the lists as a licensed house. With the existing hotel there will be four applications for licenses when the committee meets. There is an old saying that, "Fools build houses, but wise men live in them. 1 ' We have a large number of temperate people in Ashurst, and also a fair sprinkling of teetotallers. It is difficult to imagine where the hotel trade will come from. One building, in course of time, will do for Council Chambers, and another for a public hall for missionary preachers — for whenever any visit Aahurst it is found that the ordinary church accommodation is quite inadequate. Our warden has inaugurated his reign by effecting a great improvement at a bridge on the Pohangina Road, and cut a nay a lot of scrub that kept the bridge in the shade. It is only ft little matter, but it gives promise of attention to greater things.