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Otago Witness, Issue 2258, 10 June 1897, Page 25

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June 7. — The Freemasons are to celebrate the Record Refgn by a Masonic ball in the Oddfellowa' Hall, Tapanui, on Tuesday, tho 22nd. There is very little interest taken in the Record Reign celebrations here. AYe should try and get up a bonfire or some other form of celebration to remind the rising generation of the Diamond Jubilee of the Queen. Grain. — The grain season is almost over, and although short in the straw I believe the yield i 3 up to last year's average. I understand that about the same quantity left our station as last year — namely, 31,000 sacks.

Timbkr Trade.— Since Mr Riddle started a timber yard a few years ago there has been a great demand for timber for the GreeDvale new settlement and tho goldfields. The grain trucks return loaded with timber, coal, and other merchandise.

Concert and Dance at Glenkenich.— When it bocame definitely known that Miss Bowling had been appointed to the North-Eaat Valley School, the young men of Glenkenich formed themselves into a. committee, with Mr J. Croasan as secretary, to pay some tribute of respect to her before her departure, and on Wednesday, the 26th of May, one_ of the largest gatherings that has ever been held in the Glenkeuich School came off to bid Miss Bowling good-bye. The school was crowded to the door, and a capital programme of songs and recitations was gone through. It would take too much space to give the different items ; it will bn quite sufficient to say that the concert was a good one, the following performers taking part in it : — Measw Hogg, Harlock, and Monzies, Mrs Edgar, the Misae3 Harland, Neill, M'Laren, Robertson, Jenkins, Paton, Anderson, and Bowling. Refreshments were served during the night. The Glenkenich ladies are famous for their confectionary. A great feature of the concert was the schoolboys being put through their exercises iv uniform by the teacher, Mi3f< Bowling. Mr T. Jenkins proposed a vote of thanks tn the performers. A dance followed, and was kept up till 3 o'clock in the morning. * Miss Bowling has, during the four years she has been here, made many friends, and made a reccid as a teacher, having had 100 pßr cent, of paeses for the past two years She also taught the Sunday School, and led the singiug for the Presbyterian congregation. Mr D. Robertson and a few intimate friends presented her with a handsome gold ring, and I understand that the getters-up of the entertainment made her a present of the proceeds therefrom.