TEMUKA NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13969, 2 August 1909, Page 6

TEMUKA NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The Temuka. District High School reopens tins morning, but owmj: to, tiio continued prevalence of the measles tiio lower standards will not assemble. Quiet curiosity got, the better of many residents on Saturday nignt,, consequent on the- report that several people had seen the. mysterious airslup and ■numbers were surveying the lieavens with a liopo of seeing the aerial wonder, but it is not reported that any one was successful. in his closing remarks at the Presbyterian Church, annual meeting last Thursday evening, tho Rev. Air Alacdonaldj- pastor, referred to the falling attendance at the weekly prayer meetings. He stated that the complaint he was voicing was a general one throughout the country, no matter how small the attendance he would continue to hold the meetings, and lie hoped ;that tho congregation, .would come in greater numbers.

The mildness of the winter is being favourably commented upon, bright sunny days with clear frosty mornings. During tno month just ended the rainfall was 1.01 inches the most o£ which icli-ih the earlier part of July. The conditions are all in favour ot farmers and they are- making the most of the opportunity to get their'winter crop'in while a, good deal of gorso cutting, ditching, and draining is going on. On Wednesday evening a card match will be played between the Geraldine Oddfellows' "Lodge and the local branch of the Loyal Aiexandrovna Lodge, at Geraldine/ Bro. ltoulstou will captain the local team.

11l addition to tho improvements, being made to the railway approaches in Denmark street by the permanent staff tho drive up to the main entrance of the station is being planted with shrubs and ornamental trees.

The friends of Mr Donald McLeod, of Riverslea, will regret to learn that he is seriousiy ill and his condition is regarded with inucli anxiety. The electoral roll'for Geraldine for 1909 has been corrected by the Registrar (Mr J. Gillespie) and is now in the hands of tho printing department, Wellington.