WOODVILLE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3548, 22 November 1882, Page 2

WOODVILLE.

(from our own correspondent.)

November 21, 1882

Last evening the Primitive Methodist people celebrated the anniversary of their chapel by a soiree, which was attended by 150 persons. An excellent tea was provided and tables were presided over by the following ladies: — Mesdames Hamblinsr, Pinfold, Crawford, Delahaye, and Ebbett, and Misses Crawford, Pinfold, and Harding. After the tables had been cleared Mr Cbarles Hambliog was voted to tbe chair, and gave out Sankey's 176 th hymn. This having been sung with great spirit, the chairman read a financial statement, which showed tbe expenditure for the past year to be £37 4s 7d, caused by the addition of ten feet to the length of the chapel, and lining and painting, &c. The receipts, which included the proceeds of Sunday services and the tea, amounted to £44 14* Id, leaving a credit balance in hand of £7 9s 6tl, something unusual for a Methodist cbapel. I believe nearly £4 was collected by the children of the Sunday School." The chairman next called on Mr Richard to address the meeting, and after him tbe following gentlemen: — Mr Westwood, from Foxton, who preached three times on Sunday, and the Revs. Fennel, Jeynes, and Saddler, who all gave telling , speeches, and were listened to with marked attention. The choir rendered some of Sankey's hymns during the evenirjg with good taste and hearty expression. Votes of thanks to the ladies, speakers, and chairman, were carried unanimously, and to God, tbe giver of every good, by singing tbe Doxology. Tbe officers and members of toe Primitive Methodist Chapel deserve great credit for the manner in which they have worked during the past tbe greatest drawback beirjg the distance the place of worship is situate from the town, fully a mile. The Free Methodist Church—a very neat, and I may say handsome building, erected on the bill a few chains from tbe centre of the town—is rapidly nearing completion, two additional hands having been put on during last week. IfMessrs Hurst and Hambliner, the contractors, make baste as they are doing pow, it is intended to open the church about the New Year, and as the annual district meeting will be held at Napier about the second week in January it is hoped to get a few of the representatives to remain at Woodville duriDg the opeuing.