Birmingham Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 294, 18 June 1897, Page 2

Birmingham Notes.

o [from our own cobkespondent.l The gift auction sale took place here on Wednesday. Tbe attendance was very good and the weather fair but cold. Mr Carr weilded tbe hammer. In many oases high prices were obtained —4 sheep in a pen bringing 10s 6*d each. The timber did not bring tbe rnling rate bnt two lots came very near. The first lot put np was a gift from Messrs Holland and Jensen, sawmillers. It took Mr Can three hoars to get through the work, thus showing the number of thing donated. Tbe sale realised nearly LBB, and the money gifts, tea and concert, brought tbe amount to between fifty and sixty pounds, thus clearing off a debt that has been no end of trouble to the trustees, who now feel that they are standing in a new world. I was much interested in Mr Bryce's letters which have appeared in your journal. As soon as I read the first letter, I said to my children : " Wbat is a Weka ?" No reply. I repeated the question to each, and they could not tell me. I tbink a lecture on natural biatory by some competent person would be a good thing. If the Kiwitea County Council conld see their way to place a foot bridge across the river leading to Goal Creek it would bo a great advantagn to the settlers. On the last sale day one of the settlers could not get bis Bbeep over to the sale. A narrow bridge would overcome tbe difficulty. Two bad parts of Edward street have been metalled and the benefit is felt, but one piece farther along is in a very bad state and pnts one in mind of the " Slough of Despend " described by John Banyan.