NOTES FROM NOWHERE.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 35, 5 October 1886, Page 3

NOTES FROM NOWHERE.

More than one cloud seems to be rising < n the religious horizon of T&hiatua. ( body is desirous of religious oonsolat n in tiie shape of a [i-nodicsi service to |wrf rmed by the minister of that doi ; i uialion resident in W’oodville; but t v cannot ses how they are to guarant • in- (iiiuoal subsidy required. ’Tis all i y v eli to gut things as cheap as you c . ’iut wiien meanness enters into the i tt r intro cannot be much religion in t- who do not think it worth paying f r. Three penny pieces with an occa- ' i 1 sixpence in the plate will scarcely I • fir feeding the horse of the visiting parson. Out of another clond windy war will " r.-ly come. A little time ago a com- : e was appointed to select a site for the I,uilding of a church, which, when tiuiib- 1. might be used by any denominat n. Ihe rev. gentleman who shepherds l' I ailed Methodists in W’oodville was 1 energetic in the matter, and his ci at tails might be seen flying over fallen I mid his body “ wriggling ’’ through .cry wire fence around the township. 'Jills is all very well, and bis agility ] ..a his commitleo ; but in a luckless UiuLuiiil i.u accepted a site at the north «u lof : town, the land being a free i :fl I - i urjtose ; hence the trouble. It is cl. i nsiic of the residents of this Ia•• t 1 . ach of them wishes every public burning at his own door. One i .an hs got tne Templars' llall almost in ill* n.,:.t bedroom; a number seem to wial. ~ }id office in their back or front y i- - , i m> or two refute to help in getting •p i * public library on account of the j etc i where it is to be built; and so it ' v it- t! i» church. Resides this, other d .’lie are sure to arise if the church • built si all. (question of proprietorship in ~t ler or latter arise, and the cl-' civ is most iiksly to lake posAt present there is no necessity ’•' "iv icn building, the Templars' I 'all ben, • large enough for religious sorv: o re is no denomination as yot i < • igh to build a church and sup. r- : id mir of its own, O .r I >. ,i bodies do not seem to be imp. u their manner of conducting •n-'i . Special meetings are called b w.’nout the required notice bein'; ■ 1 another (the last constituted • "-d something very like a bear- | • i - il» meeting on Saturday night. V- y w il not the chairman assert his . . ■ ity j rqierly, and msisl upon members J. . • ■ i;: ud addressing the chair —not n ■ mil idual member of the Board- as w. .iting a stop to more than one t] > - U a time ? 'i’li’i cricket match between married i.i.d - c did not lake place on Saturday, p- tl.v ’ viugh one of tin- former having i. • i ,e, and one of tiie latter the nc . . and partly throiign tho roughi !' t!.c day. A scratch match was i *. u - hich resulted in nothing but I n r i..uiting tor one side. Don't you i in'; dr . litor, that flannels would be hi ill ;rn nwut to the appearanoe of those i laying. Rath r fishy statements in one of those I . i n.p. y cases the other day, Mr Editor. It is n - altogether a new dodge waiting fir . arces from Home. If* Nemo” ■ i all tin drafts that he has said he was waiting for in hi* chequered colonial i -r I • would not now be dependent . i his lion in the Village Settlement, or ■ .vi -ly wailing for the appointment as r M per, 1 must wind up as 1 hear ix coo » c tor h'lio.