GREYTOWN NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4651, 17 February 1894, Page 2

GREYTOWN NOTES.

(From Our Own' Correspondent.)

To-unrrow afternoon and evening we are to have"the baiiefitof evantjellstio pervicea 'iii the Foresters! Hall. A. Jfr'Clark,'who fa the evangelist; lias'advertised" Uie'set'yices|'ana thus thrown out his net, 'I fear he will not ijavs a ggqd haul, for in Greytowh *e are eithejf too good to need Bppojial efforts' or "'too bad from a religious pgint of view to pare anything about flie ma'tfer. | don't Jtnow qu'ito iyhigli js the cage, but it is a fapt that a more apathetic people in the nutter of religion it would be bard to find, Perhaps this is beoauso they have to py sodoarlyforit Thoy pay their money and expect front seats without further *-™Mh. Truly religion is a grievous tax to a small community 7...1 all have thoir peculiar form of i»orsliipj'witlrolittroilea'aud parsons to match. Wo have the Church of England, Presbyterian, Wesleyai),and Eoliian Catholic Churobes, and'begging for money for tborii in one' form or another goes on all the ; year round, The Ohuroh ojf England people had to, make a" ','epepial^efilbif" to pb'fainj enough to pay up" the J}ey. Mr McLean before he wept away, and they have just completed" pother " speoial effort" to pay the Bev. Mr Grace bis firat quartor's salary, the quarter's subscriptions having all been forestalled for Mr McLean. If Mr Clarke could induce the people to be saved all in the same way and shut up all four churches and go in for one only, which thoy could support handsomely, he would not havo evangelised in vain ' Eor it is an old yet tine saying " when' subscription list 3 ootre in at the door, religion flies out ol the window." • ■" ■•

i A Salvation Army contingent from | Carterton Imye teen bauging away for [some time on Vednesaa,y n ev.eurng3. The)' provide a pjeasant tiqur'aatriuspment for the boys, but they complain that the coll-ctions don't amount to' enough to pay for tlie kerosene which illuminates the proceedings.

The girls of Greytowu aro all longing to come and live in Idasterton, They read that twenty weddings a month is noi infrequent there, while here th 6 young tneiHall lpaye for other! pai'jts as'ipo)} 'a's Jhey'grow up; and] when they come back the) bring wives! with them. We fiave poiria' really I beautiful girl? jn fireytown; lovely I roses still .' pining on thrir yjrgini Stems/ but mates for them all are not to ha found and they are likely to piaa, 'lf's a fjne pjace for nice young fellows, for naturally beirjg 'scarce they are very highly appreciated and made muob of,

Orchard thieves from roinahs to men, are Greylown's latest affliotion. The minahs eat most of tbe straw-berrpj-tjipy tta nojiehjng 00 the grap ajftjihey •'' become''''' ripej and small young maids, old and OTm* steal all other kinds of compunction, The Sunm School children used io make rjake regular trips down'to Judd's id.Haigh'a orchard ou Sabbath after! toons, ana jsur laden with fiuft Mite openly. It did npteeem to oo* wr to them th4rtbe|iwer» : robbing heir islibeins

made to stop it, and you mayshorllr hear of interviews, with our sapient ' Justices of the Peace on the matter.

No news here, of the cyclone. Oaptam Edwin should offer a reward for ita discovery alive or dead.