WAIROA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6008, 28 June 1881, Page 3

WAIROA.

(from our own correspondent.) June 25, 1881. A meeting of the trustees of the "Wairoa cemetery was held last Thursday, when some greatly needed rules and regulations .for the management of the cemetery were drawn up, and a schedule of charges adopted both for ordinary interments and for the sale of burial plots. These rules and charges will come into force after their confirmation by the Governor. Mr Williams was elected chairmau of ihe Cemetery 'trustees. The next meeting will be held immediately after the gazetting of the rules, when a sexton will be appointed. It is also intended to plant the cemetery with willows and to apply again to the Waste Lands Board, Napier, to vest the whole of the Government ' reservation in the trustees, in order that a portion may be leased and a revenue be forthcoming. The vestry of St. Paul's Church met last evening. I hear that it was decided, inter alia, to procure funds to finish certain much needed requirements in connection with the church. A tea meeting is to be held in conjunction with the annual gathering of the congregation on the L2th of next month. A lecture will be given early in July by the Rev. Mr Hill, the subjects being the telephone and microphone ; the proceeds to be devoted to the Mechanics' Institute. I anticipate a good house if the weather prove propitious. | A lady who for the past two years had taken a leading part in the choir of one of our churches happened to leave, and the choir leader takes the opportunity of writing to the local v thunderer" to say thafc he does not regret her departure. Rather rough on the lady, and I should think very encouraging to the other : choristers, because the lady's voice had always been considered one of the chief attractions. " Vox et prefer ■eanihil," Isuppose.