KAITANGATA.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1027, 30 March 1894, Page 5

KAITANGATA.

__ o — [B'nosi Onit Own Correspondent.] The Castle Hill Company sent away on Thursday the first truck of coal from their new seam. The work of erecting their automatic screens is being rapidly, proceeded with, as also is the opening out of the coal, so that within the next two months there will be a steady output from this mine. The Lyons Burlesque Company gave a performance in M'Govem's Hall on Saturday evening. The attendance was not such as the entertainment merited. Mr Lyons has decided to pay us another visit upon his I return from the south, when no doubt his, reception will be such as to amply reward him for doing so. Our local Freemasons met on Sunday, and after the opening of the lodge they paraded to St. Paul's Church. . The Eev. Bro. Dodd preached a very able and appropriate sermon. The offertory, which by a rule of the church' goes to the incumbent, exceeded expectations. On Friday considerable anxiety was displayed regarding the results of the licensing contest in the various districts. The daybeing a holiday, and no paper or letter delivery, many schemes were suggested with a view to obtaining the desired information, but none of them proved successful, and it was not until Saturday that we received the returns. Were the athenaeum committee to make application to headquarters for the use of one ol the many post-office boxes which are not in use, members and, the public generally would be greatly benefited during holiday times. The Kaitangata Football Club has decided by a good majority of its members to play under Rugby rules this season. The decision is one which will be appreciated by lovers of the game, and no doubt the lukewarm spirit which has been manifest in this good old game for two seasons will become a thing of I the past. The opening match takes place on Saturday, when sides will be chosen by the president and vice-president. His worship the Mayor of Dunedin visited us on Friday; and to all appearances his late defeat in the licensing contest was a matter of little concern to him. He visited the Matau Qpal Company's mine, which is situated on one of the Dunedin- corporation reserves,

The' Kaitangat'a Cricket- Club played a match on Easter Monday against a scratch team fxom-lthiiKPjioho .Club. There was a large numb.er>vo£j*§pectaiors "' present. Play was commenced sso£tly after 9 a.m., and the game.rthro.ugtiput was. a .most interesting, one. The home'tearn.proYe'd victorious by a majority of eight TQrisV--'' , Water street,~frqm tlie bridge to Torquay street; 'has'- be'en^ macadamised,' and "pedestrians flndatmbt loriry '."difficult to walk upon=, | but most damaging to. .their trotter . cases. | Were our council, wholly .composed of knights of tho awl one -could account, for the, laxity in having the. metal .-blinded. Perhaps ; our Soutes and council are in league. ...