GREYTOWN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3395, 27 December 1889, Page 2

GREYTOWN.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Christmas night, opened here with "sundry and divers" performances indicative of the feßtive season.

A choral service took place on .• Sunday evening at St Lukes Church, , (Christmas Carol singing). At the ' Forester's Hall a service of song a- , " Frozen to death," was very woll " j i rendered by the Wesleyan and Pres-j^ ,p. , bytorian Sunday School scholars, and : tlieit musical friends, At its closo a . collection was made in aid of.the ; . Wesleyan Sunday School fund. ; On Monday night at the' Foresters Hall Mr'Foley jrave a performance to an awfully thin house, The reason of this is best known to the man who runs the show, for programmes came by post to lots of people hero, and Mr Ookor was, during the afternoon, distributing notices of the evening's ' cnlert,iinment,and yet it was a failure, whereas, there can be no doubt had the show been held at the Palaco Hall, thu ; result would ; havo beon . quito the reverse, from this fact, that a skating entertainment took placo in the latter building at' which a great number wero present, both natives and Europeans, It is to be noted that as a placo for a large public entortainmont, the Palaco Hall stands unrivalled in tbo Wairarapa, and if the show be a good ono tnd is primly advertised a" good house" and largo. takings can be anticipated, jk On Christinas Evothe various stores hotels and shops put on their holiday attiro, and if reports be true did a y\ very satisfactory trade. ';' Haigh's butcher's shop was as usual in tho front covered with evergreens, but did not exhibit so large a stock aa formerly, but what there was shewn, was, as usual very good, Amongst the exhibits was a large Komney Marsh sheep, artistically trimmed, weighing 1201bs, Caselberg's store looked well with its Chinese lantorna, Hunimerich's hotel looked verdant with its evergreens etc, .but in a cot- • tage behind tho hotel, was a sight as novel as it was exceedingly pretty, viz, a veritable Christmas: tree, an exact counterpart of the original article, as teen in the " respectable mansions " of" the old country." Outside the Borough a series of melancholy events occurred on Christmas evt, The Maryborough and ■ Featherston mail coach with passengers, and a largo vehicle containing 15 passengers (flaxmill hands), fool- W ishly indulged in a race from the former township. When near the turn of tho road to South -Featherston'tho T vehicles collided violently, throwing"'' the occupants of both carriages fo, the ground, Everyone ..was 1 .morejoYless knocked about/mid, sad to relate, one of the foolish /drivers named. Beeves,' got one of his legs badly broken and crashed. He was taken to Feathersi on, and from thence was conveyed SQfto the Greytown Hospital, where' ;it ' /~ was found necessary to amputate tho crushed limb in order to'avert, consequence's which might prove fata). Whilst sympathy cannot be withheld from the sufferer, the sad event

conveys a solemn lesson to all Whot'n it may concern. Tho samn evening, a Te'iiclo was conveying a number of passengers, to Groytown—a -cordihg to the report which reached htsru said. passengers being " three sheets in tho wind" and by some means not clearly described the occupants were thrown out, and sat up with their backs against tho fence at the road side, an(Lpmained there, until they wro picS|d up, and conveyed to their destination. I had almost forgotten to mention that the town was on Christmas Eve fairly crowded witli visitors from tho Empire City and el-iowherc, the footpaths in tho business portion being litorally crushed, and doubtless the various hotels and the " Working Men's Club" (save tho mark I) did a trade to Christmas Day,