GREYTOWN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3352, 4 November 1889, Page 2

GREYTOWN.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Last Friday night at the Wesleyau schoolroom a social gathering took place. About thirty were present, chiefly young people of both sem This gathering was the first ore series of similar meetings to be held fortnightly in the town. A charge of Od is made for admission, and the gathering is open to any who ohooso to come. : A cordial welcome and a capital spread is provided by friends favorable to its object, which is to give the takiugs to aid the reduction of an indebtedness of the churck. The Rev Mr Dellow and his estimable lady presided. Before and after the feast games of various kinds wero indulged in, and a most enjoyable evening was spent. The next gathering will be held at the late choirmaster's house, (Mr Shearer.) If the various religious bodies of the Wairarapa were to follow the . example set by Mr Dellow, suchf social gatherings would doubtless, be, a powerful counterpoise to other' kinds of social gatherings of our youth, which not infrequently are characterised by frivolity and demoralisation,

An incident occurred yesterday %a |tbe Presbyterian Sunday School tlldff" will be interesting to somo of your readers. Master C. Cuff, ouo of tho. first class scholars, is about leaving Greytown with bis parents for Auckland. Before closing the school services the Superintendent with a few appropriate remarks presented Master Cuff with a handsome book asa souvenir andkeepsake in memory oi flraytown Sunday Scltool and friends,

It will please your "religious" readers to hear that full congregation were present at tho eveningservices held at the Presbyterian aud Wesleyan Churches in Greytown last night.

General Grenfell. General Sir Francis Grenfell, who has recently roturned to England from his command in Egypt, was publicly welcomed on September 4, on his arrival at Wiltou Psrk, Beacousfield, the residence of Mr Pascoe Grenfell. The streets jft Beaconsfield were decorated with flags, and at the entrance to the park was a triumphal arch of evergreens and

flowers, Tliu carriage containing General and Lady Grenfell was met at the entrance to the town by the local band and a mounted escort of members of the Grenfell family, and conducted to the centre of the town, wliero an address was road by Mr Edward Lawson, It referred to tho fact that Beaconsfiold was the homo of tho General's mother, and the present rcsidencn of a member of his family, and to the prido which the, townspeople fell in welcoming so distinguished a soldier. It went, on to express admiration of the courage and skill displayed by tho General and those associated with him in the recent campaign against tho Devisees. General Grenfell, in reply, said he trusted they would not expect, a speech of any length from him, because his business of Ic.'to and the i profession of his life was not speaking but fighting. He, ihanfced them." however, very much for tiro opportunity t!i«y had given him of acknowledging the services of those officers of the Egyptian and English army who wero associated with him lit the late campaign. When he considered the services rendered to him | by Colonel Kitchener, Colonel WooV ' hoaso-who fot a whole month had fought the Dervishes day by day, and remained on (hn'r (lank'in every march they mado-hy Colonel Settle, the chief of the other English und Egyptain officers who took part in the action, he could not but agree with the words of the address as to tho satisfaction it hud been to those who had been employed in Egypt, and he thought, of the country at, large, that tho task committed to tbr /m ' had been fulfilled. When they commenced the campaign they retold that the Egyptian soldiers Vould not fight, but after the work of training by the English oflbrs, they had. turned out far k-tter than wa# expected, It w W frequently supposed that the 01%. Bghting men in the Egyptian «wjr were the Soudanese, or Wack regiments; but ho could a,sauto them that, at the hottest part of the action, when one of the Black regimonts was stopped for a time by the heavy tire of the Dervishes, hereinforced them with a purely fellaheen battalion, who wont up to a rerv nasty position thai had to he taken, alongside of « Black battalion, and! took it in. a most gallant way. He was glad to have an opportunity ofl mentioning that, because he knew there had been false impressions oa the subject.

An Adelaide telegram to the, Argus o the Srd inat reports';-"This morning a cottage in Grolo-shcet was tho nccno of 'an attempted murder. Tlio cottage was tenanted by a single woman named Jane Jeffries, who for the past few months has bad a young married woman named Annie Crawford, living with her, James . Crawford, her husband, not living withjjb' his wile, The pair had been marriedr fov about two years, and Crawford duriiii! several weeks had threatened to kill his wifo. Last night ho endeavored to force his way into Miss Jcffrios' house, but she refused him admittance. Shortly after 10 o'oloek this morning shots wore heard from, the kitchen,where Mrs Crawford had gone to light a fire. Miss Jeffries, on rushing out, found the woman lying near the fireplace in a pool of bW and her husband near by with a rewfveir in his hand. Mrs Crawford, who was seriously injured, was removed to the hospital, whero an exAUiinatwn revealed four bullet wounds, which hod apparently been fired irony behind. Sho is not likely to recover. Tho sufferer who •was perfectly conscious, made sevoral statements.