KIHIKIHI.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3054, 11 February 1892, Page 2

KIHIKIHI.

CuitisT Ohubch.—The annual raeetincr of parishioners took place in this church on Sunday evening last, Mr C. Oele occupying the chair. The minutes of the last annual meeting wore read and confirmed. The audited accounts for the past year, showing a credit balance of £2 Os 2d, were read and passed. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr C. Ogle for his services as lay-reader, likewise to Mrs Ellis and the other ladies who had assistod aa organist during the past yenr ; to the choir, and to those ladies who had so efficiently attended to the cleaning and lighting of the church, j The following gentlemen were duly elected as a vestry for the current year, viz., Messr3 Hutchinsnn, Tristram, Moncrieff, G. Rigg, H. Miller, and C. Ogle. Mr Tristram was unanimously elected warden. Sports Meeting-—The final meeting of the Sports Committee took place in the Alpha Hotel on Friday evening last, the attendance being fairly good. Mr Hunter occupied the chair. The balance-sheet, which showed a credit balance in hand of £2 10s, in addition to some 30s unpaid subscriptions, was read by the secretary and adopted. Owing to the committee being so unfortunate with the weather on the last occasion, the balance now carried forward falls far shurt of what it has been previously. On the secretary tendering his resignation, he was presented with a gold scarf pin in recognition of his services. Dangerous Traps.—Several complaintshave recently been made concerning the dangerous state of one or two places in the township, in consequence of which many animals have been .nora or less injured. This is all nwinp to the neglect on the part of property-owners to keep their fences in repair, and by allowing the wire therefrom (in some w>sea barbed) to lie on the roads adjoining. In the course of time the wire becomes entanp led in the gorse and briars that grows) vigorously on many of the roads and properties here, thus forming a trap for the unwary animals. One of the most dangerous of these is the Wesleyan Church property here, which not long since presented a pretty appearance, but which now remains in a most dilapidated state, the fences and gates being thrown down and cast here and there. This is greatly to be wondered at, as the Wesleyan body, as a rule, are most careful of their properties. As possibly many of the members here have lately been too much engaged to permit of their attending to these matters, perhaps it will not be out of place to quote here, for their benefit, a passage from Proverb?, chapter XXIV., which runs as under : " I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, 10, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down." As this seem 3to meet the case, I trust, now that attention has been directed to this matter, that steps will be taken to remedy the dangerous state of the fence.