WOODVILLE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 866, 5 October 1888, Page 31

WOODVILLE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) September 29. The Herelaunga . School Committee, which is about eleven miles. distant from Woodville, ba3 been exercising its powers to some good purpose.* It Beems that a married couple there have an (adopted boy about ten or eleven years of age, of whom they have been rather neglectful, and whom they have been working too much for his strength. • At its last meeting, the Committee resolved to put the compulsory clause of-the Education Act in force as regarded this boy, and sent a notice to the guardians that if they did not send him to school they would be summoned. It is hoped this action will do the poor little beggar some good. A very curious thing is that there are sixty children of school age in the Heretaunga, and only twelve girls amongst them. A meeting of the parishioners of the English Church was held last Monday to consider the advisableness of dividing the district and getting a resident parson here. The chairman (Rev E. RobertBhawe) informed the meeting that the Wellington diocese proposed cutting Pahiatua and Ekctahuna off from Masterton and forming them into a district but if the Woodville people took acl ion at once he thought they might get Pahiatua cut off from Wellington and added to Woodville, and the two places together ought to be able ’to support a paraon. But Woodville alone could not. This was borne out by; the fact that although the ladies had raised L 25 by a bazaar, yet the vestry had gone to the bad by.Ll4 last year on an expenditure of L 95 for stipend and church expenses. It was unanimously resolved to tfy and get the proposed arrangement carried out. Whether Pahiatua will agree to it or not is a question. I fancy from it 3 general affection ; for Woodville that place will prefer to take Eketahuna under its wing to being taken itself under Woodville. There was a case in Court yesterday which occupied the presiding justices (Mr C. Hall and the Mayor) for some time. A man named Hull, formerly a wheelwright in Woodville, lately, of Pahiatua, took up a section in the Tiraumea on deferred payments. He bought a section or two of land in Palriatua for his wife, and built a large boardinghouse on one and some shops on the others,, he also improved the Tiraumea’ section by felling and sowing it. ; Finally he filed. The only thing in the shape of an asset was this sectiolq which he agreed to hand over to the Assignee. The Assignee sold it to a Mr Bly, but Hull repented of his agreement, and' refused to sign the transfer. The Assignee took steps in the District Court in -Masterton to • compel him to do so, but the Court .held it had no' power to act as aßked,. as a deferred payment section was not"an asset in bankruptcy. Hull repeatedly asked Bly for possession of the section, so he says, but Bly’s story is that Hull told'him that he would not disturb -him till Christmas. Anyhow, last Monday Hull took a man with him to the section, and -asked Bly if he was going to give up possession, and being told not, proceeded, to muster the cattle to pound them. Bly’s boy prevented this, and Hull got on the roof of the house that Bly had built, -made.a hole in it, and turned out Bly’s children. Next' day Bly took - three men' and gave Hull five minutes to clear out, but Hull took up a gun and threatened to shoot the first man that came hear him, frightening them all out of the place. By-the-\>ye t the gun belonged to Bly. Now,

Hull Was bhai'ged with ilialicloUS injury to property, and with Carrying firearms with a felonious intent. After hearing the evidence the Justices dismissed, the case, as it involved a question of title, over which they had no jurisdiction. The grandest wedding that Woodville has witnessed came oft yesterday, when Mr A. St. G. Ryder, of this town, was married to Miss Worgan, formerly of Wellington. The ceremony was performed” by the Rev E. Robertshawe, in Holy Trinity Church, which was nicely decorated with flowers. The bride was handsomely I m a bachelor myself, and have no authority oh dresSes to consult, so I can’t describe either her dress or the bridesmaids*. The latter were seven in nuinber, of whom six were little girls aboiit eight years of age* and the chief was a young lady a few jrears their senior. Mr Worboys, of the Heretaunga, was the best .man. After the wedding breakfast, which was held, at Mr T. Morris’, the newly-married couple left for the West Coast and Auckland, where they are to spend the honeymoon.