WOOD VILLE NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 91, 12 March 1884, Page 2

WOOD VILLE NOTES.

• : : r.T ■■'fCof respondent of Exchange.] The recent murder/; case at Ormondville has 'given lise to & most bitter feeling among the inhabitants agaiust the pubijoan there, who is. regarded almost a " fiend m human form." The settlers : have made up their minds to, if at all! possible, make away with the worst i hotel, and thereby hunt out the man who refused to accede to the simple re- ' quests made by the poor murdered woman," that the publican, would give \ her 'husband no drink,*" ~' ' | The Freethought Association here is making inroads into the lanks of orthodox peuple, and much concern is evince I by the different sects as the best course of procedure to blot this stain from 4i our. land. _ Ajready the association musters over thirty certified members, aa.d last Sunday aftornocn a ; large audience of outsiders even flocked to hear the president's excellent address. Building is still being pushed ahead ; new buildings are constantly springing up, and others m embryo. The sawmills are kept exceedingly busy, and are still scarcely able to cope with the extensive demand for timber. S j far as \ can learn, the Government intend pushing along public works with greater rapidity than heretofore.