CARLYLE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 42, 4 September 1880, Page 2

CARLYLE.

1-+ (fbom otjb own correspondent.) Carltle, Friday.

The Harmonic Society's concert has been again postponed, the date last fixed coming in the way of other matters. The snbject now under rehearsal is Macfarren's new cantate " The Lady of the Lake," a work whicli. "bears a. great xe;pwfca.tion. at iiome. Tim music is difficult, and the delay may be beneficial in permitting the Society to make themselves more perfect.

In my last I spoke of the Wellington unemployed in connection with Saturday evening's disturbance. Since then several of them have been discharged, and their places will readily be filled by a fresh supply from Wellington. A rifle match takes places to-morrow — officers and privates versus non-commis-sioned officers, Patea Rifles, The tender of Mr. R. A. Adams has been accepted for the supply of a new uniform for the corps. Mr. John Milroy's new hotel is now nearly furnished, and a license will shortly "be applied for on behalf of the tenant, Mr. Owen McKittrick.

Tenders were called for another hotel near the new railway station, and that of Mr. E. Holtham, at £875, has been accepted for the building alone. It is understood that Mr. F. OS. McCarthy is the enterprising speculator. . Some of the timber is already on the ground, and a start will be at once made with the building.