WAIHI BUSH.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 79, 18 September 1878, Page 2

WAIHI BUSH.

The English Church building at Waihi will, it is expected, be completed week or ten days._ It will, when finish be a mere than neat building, a very high sharp-pitched roof giving it a striking ap : ' pcarance. We will give a full description when, in a short time, we come to describe the ceremony of opening. A great mistake has been made in one particular, the building being placed diagonally upon the section it stands upon, giving one the impression that it lias been bloAvn out of its proper place. It is a pity that the determination to place the length of the building east and west has produced so disagreeable effect. It will take a good many years for trees to grow sufficiently high to hide this defect. It will be formally opened by special services soon after completion, but the exact date has not yet been decided upon. During the year Messrs Webb and Penny have removed their saw-mills to the upper end of the bush, and have gone to considerable expense in putting down a tramway into the bush. The Waihi river has to be crossed, and this is done by a bridge of fifteen 25-feet spans. This bridge is decked with 3-inch planking, so so that a considerable amount of timber was consumed in its construction. A side cutting of about one hundred yards leads fro n the bridge to the top of the terrace on which the timber stands. The shedding of the mill is of a neat and substantial kind, and the whole arrangements are a great improvement on those made at the old site.

A concert and ball, arranged by the bachelors of the district, were given at the school-room, Waihi Bash, on Friday evening last. The weather was beautifully tine, and a hopeful faith being reposed in the young men in charge of the affair, there was a large attendance. That faith proved not misplaced, for everyone enjoyed themselves. The concert was not a great success, and did not form a large part of the evening’s entertainment, but the ball was a decided success, and was kept up till the hour hand pointed well downwards. The committee, of which Mr W. Helem was chairman, are praised on all sides for their energetic and successful endeavors to make all present enjoy themselves. Mr Moretz Bowron, canvassing agent for the Australian Mutual Provident Society, having very extensively placarded the Waihi district, intimating that he would deliver a lecture on the subject in the school-room on Monday evening last, and requesting the presence of ladies and present members in particular, a large number of residents gathered together to hear the gentleman. He spoke for nearly an hour and a half, earnestly and fluently, and was listened to with much attention, and seemed to prove to the meeting very satisfactorily, both by statistics and illustration, that the Society represented by him, is the oldest and most economical, and the hugest Mutual Life Aasurance office in the Australian Colonies, and that during the past two years it has secured more new business than any other Life Assurance Company in the British dominions. Mr Flatman, of Woodbury, occupied the Chair. Dr Fish, of Geraldine was present, and at the close of the meeting a number of persons present put ‘ in proposals, and were at once afforded the relative interview with the latter, as medical referee.