NORSEWOOD.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1262, 7 May 1896, Page 17

NORSEWOOD.

I am glad to see that our district has been referred to in your hist two issues of the MAIL. Doubtless this will be an incentive to settlers to subscribe to your valuable weekly.

Tho long, dry spell has now fairly broken,

and we are into the middle of winter, so far as weather is concerned. The Ruahinos have aline coaling of snow, and Jack Frost is cutting oil the grass. Fortunately we had a few days of mild, rainy weather before the cold commenced, which flatted the grass, otherwise the outlook for winter feed would have been v< ry black. Tho school committee election was a very tame ali'air, only seme fourteen h mseholders being present, doubtless owing to the excessively rough evening. Five of the old committee were re-elected, with Mr 0. Krioksen an chairman. Nexl Sunday a sacred concert is to be given in Makotuku by the Norsewood choir, composed principally from the Wosleyau church, assisted by others. The leader, Mr Ilocs Watkins, has recently come to reside here, and is a great acquisition to the district, being a thoroughly competent choir-master. The sa-nc concert was recently rendered here in aid of the Lruuner Fund. Hones me a scarce commodity in the township. Not a decent building can be rental under any circumstances, though for such re; are vacant good rents are obtainable. This is a great plane for tea-meetings. Every week or two we have something in this line. Last Saturday and .Monday the Salvation Army held a tea-meeting and I coffee nipper respectively, and jest before | the Lutherans and the Wcsleyans had had j similar assemblies. I never came across a place like it for its size, I think a tea-fight conld be run Eucccfsfully every Saturday evening. The irnsical entertainment may be ever s > inferior, the big tea alwajs brings in the little.-Tilling-;. We have a'-iivh grocer .here who is making Ihiiig-iabil lively, cutting' down prices for j ea Ti, and he seems to bo largely patronised. Certainly anyone with ready money can effect, a big discount on his purchases.