OWAKA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 31

OWAKA.

I April 12. — A committee meeting oi the Aslimore menional monument was held in Mi Gcddes's hotel, Owai*, on Friday evening, when the lists were summed up. The amount is very satisfactory, considering the time and the limit of subscriptions < to 2s 6d. There are , still a few pounds required, and on perusal I of the lists it is seen that there arc a number [ of familiar names still absent. The next meetof committee takes place on Wednesday, when they will p)ace the order and arrange for the erection and unveiling of the monument. It will be remembered that Trooper J. W. AshU'ore was one of those killed in the Bothasberg engagement, and the resident-, or"o r " lite district are going to «rect a moi.un.fnt to ims niemoiy. April 14.— At St. Matthias's Church ]p= 4 week, after choir practice, Miss Ros«> L. Walton was presented by the choir and congregation ot St. JifaHlna?'s Church with a very handsome marble clock on the near approach of her marriage to the Rev. Albert Wingfie'd, Vicar of W'yndham. A good number of the congregation were present. Mr Gill, tli? < lioirmaster, in making Mie presentation, said it was with mingled feelings of pleasure and pain th.it be performed the duty; pleasurp in giving «ome token of esteem and regard in which Miss Walton was held by all who knew her, and for the valuable work m which she had been engaged in connection with the church as organist, and Sunday school teacher. It was also with a feeling of pain that they were about to lose the services of such a good worker in relation to the general church work. Mr A W. Geddes, a member of the Church Committee, also made a mc» speech The Rev. W. Wingfield, on behalf of the recipient, thanked the members of his congregation for the handsome present and the kind feelings expiessed