GREYTOWN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3191, 29 April 1889, Page 2

GREYTOWN.

(Prom (Jur Own Correspondent.) Last Friday afternoon an ex'.traorY dinary phenonema was witnessed by:,a few.persons at'the'time viz,,myriads of winged insects of a blue color, like sandflies, hovering in the air, many alighting upon the passing travellers. Towards evening they passed away. Wh'it they were, whence they came, or whither gone, is beyond conjecture, "'.-.•■''■'

Maritana in Greytown' gavo bolb pleasure and satisfaction to the comparatively few present who enjoyed the musical treat, Doubtless it would have been a •' grand success" had the management properly advertised and posted (he event.

- A youth, resident, here, named! John Loader, has been seized with "religious, mania" and undergone medical examination. Ho probably will be sent to the.lunatic asylum. . The Greytown Kifle Volunteers and Papawai corps held a church parade on Sunday morning. Headed by the band they marched to the , Presbyterian Church (Forester's Hall,) AH the seatsof the building were well filled with an attentive audience, the Bev Mr Murray preached with bis ■usual ability aud earnestness. The service of praise was- magnifk cently rendered by the talented choir and the melodiously disposed amongst the congregation. This branch of the Christian Church is evidently making progress amongst the adult population of the district, the reason of this is .obvious, it fills the want of, the times, • intellectual religious teaching apart from rant, It is a matter of regret to many that there is ne Sunday School with the denomination in this district.