Apiti Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 225, 29 January 1894, Page 2

Apiti Notes.

[from our own corbespondent. I A meeting of the Trustees of the Wesleyan Church was held here on Tuesday, the 23rd instant, to take into consideration the desirableness of commencing the erection of a church building at once. The Rev. Mr Birks presided. After discussion it was resolved that tenders be invited for the erection oi a church at a cost not to exceed £I<jO. A sum of about £60 has already been promised, and it is intended to raise a further sum of .£SO from the Church Loan Fund. It is expected a furthei sum of not less than £20 will be collected before the church is ready for occupation. The trustees are worthy of all praise for thoir energy and success in sc good a cause. Since the New Year the weather has been very warm up here, and some ol the settlers took advantage of it to burn their bush, and several of them were exceptionally fortunate in getting "good burns." Messrs Lyon and Sons are pushing on the work of their metalling contract, and the road will be a great deal better next winter ; but it would seem from appearances we are to • have a " Slough of Despond " behind the township. The Government axe pushing on the road towards Coal Creek to the Salisbury Block. The workmen are employed on the co-operative system. The road towards the Pohangina Small Farm Block, and through Table Flat, is to be pushed on at once, several sections of it having already been let on the same system. Still another petition has been going round for Mr Pirani, M.H.R., to try and get our bridge made over the Oroua river. Already about seventy signatures have been obtained, from which fact you can gather with what rapidity settlement is going on here. It is not so long ago when there was nothing but standing bush and scarcely a house to be seen. Now the bush is fading away like " the baseless fabric of a dream," and all around may be seen well-built aud substantial dwellings. I think that the Birmingham people should get up a petition to your member, Mr John Stevens, to assist our representative, Mr Pirani, in the matter of our bridge. They are quite as much interested, because not only do many of the settlers on that side of the river own sections with us, or in the adjacent blocks, but a good deal of business is done by the Apiti people in Birmingham.