GREYTOWN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3391, 20 December 1889, Page 2

GREYTOWN.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) ■ Last night, at the Foresters' Hall, thp adjourned public meeting on the town'hall question took place. There was but a! small attendance, mid the Mayor-elect, Sir it. A. Wakelin, was voted to, the chair. He after a few appropriate remarks, called upon the secretary to the Town Lands Trust .(Mr A. L. Webster) to read the report of the trustees and a committee appointed at 1 the previous meeting 'to ascertain matters, ; re the re-, building or' otherwiso of ft new town hall.: The report set forth that legal advice had been obtained from a lawyer hi Wellington to the effect that'the trustees cinno! ItaiM a new town ball out of trust revenue (rents). After a few remarks from the Chair, the adoption of the, report, as read, was moved in due form, tfiere being no, amendment, only a long pause—a kind pf pajnjur quietude pervading hip sn|ajl.hicqt|ng-thß report was carried without dissent, .As there' was/no further talking indulged in, the usual compliment to.thechairihau brought this unost peculiar public meeting to a close. •.'■ : .- ■•■ '

During the past 1 three ! clay's.there have been" li&vy • winds J prevalent aroundthetownship, doing no small mischief.tp the orchards, .and giving annoyance to shopkeepers from the. dust clouds in the main street. Tho rivers Ji'piye !w' in fiiipit, caused hy the ,\varni sunshine and wind'dissolving the snow in tho oountless steep gullies of the .mountain ranges to tho westward q£ tho valley. V;

" The distribution of prizes to the scholars of the State School here took place yesterday.'.afternoon ,at' the School house. Further information is impossible, /as the authorities in Ihx ltiattjirjiftijiot'ilie'courtesyio jiijite''yqp( qjJttsjjj'pn&ept.'' ''-'; ■' ■■ On Wednesday night i'vepy pleasant gathering called" '! fi spciaf' took place in the Oddfollows Iliill of tho Juvenilo Lodge members, and their friends,. • ~ , .1

: , On the same evening •' a social " took place at the residence of Mr J. Judd, at Kurutiwhiti. These meetings are a novel .idea and exceedingly enjoyaiw. T' iero W> good spread, and plenty'Of jnnoceht' aransemGiT. ( indulgedju, singing,' games etc.' A j pall'charge is inade, anil ihojro-. ceedsgo towards ! augnieiiting funds for the support of the cause that brings the meeting together.