Campbelltown Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 202, 29 December 1893, Page 2

Campbelltown Notes.

[from oub own cobbespondknt.] Tlie funeral of the late Mrs Bishop, wife of Mr W. H. Bishop, of Campbelltown, took place yesterday afternoon, ami was the largest funeral ever seen there. All those settlers who could possibly leave their farms turned out to pay a last tribute of respect to the memory of their departed friend. The local Oddfellows, to the number of about thirty, with seven or eight visiting brethren from Bulls, headed the procession when it arrived opposite the Hall. Mrs Bishop, who had been ailing for the past two or three months, was sixty years of age, and was unconscious for two or three days previous to her demise, which occurred early on last Tuesday morning. A large grown up family is left to mourn the loss of a kind mother, and much sympathy is felt for the husband and family in their bereavement. The Rev. G> Clement, Primitive Methodist Minister, and Captain Miss Scott, of the Salvation Army, officiated at the grave. Mr W. Koberstein, who had the misfortune to have his ankle badly bruised while attempting to stop a runaway horse at the Campbelltown Butter Factory recently, is still laid up. All the skin was iteken off and the leg is black and blue up to the knee, and is worse than if it were broken. We hope Mr Koberstein will be able to get about shortly. A picnic will be held at Mr H. P. Thompson's Taipo Bush, Campbelltown, on New Year's Day, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the funds of the local Primitive Methodist Church. Mr S. Costall, the Government Printer, is at present on a visit to bis brother at Campbelltown! On Boxing Day a largo party went from Campbelltown to the sea, at the mouth of the Bangitikei river, and everyone enjoyed themselves immensely. A pigeon " labelled J. J. Curtis " rested at Campbelltown a few nights ago. We presume that it was a carrier on its way to Mr J. J. Curtis, Custom House Agent, of Wellington.