CARTERTON NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 6111, 13 December 1898, Page 3

CARTERTON NOTES.

[From Our Om Correspondent). Monday, A very pleasing little function took place iu St Mark's Sunday Schoolroom yesterday afternoon, when Mrs Keir, (oneof St Mark'soldest school-teachers), was presented with a prayer book, bound with Eussian leather, a silver thimble, and threo very pretty little glass vases, in token of the esteem in which sho was held by her fellow-teachers and members of tho Sunday school. Mr llathbono, the superintendent, in making the presentation, referred to the valuable service rendered by Mrs Keir during her twenty years' teaching. Of late Mrs Iteir had been in very ill health and she was compelled at last lo give up the school work. He remembered the lime quite well when she used lo teach him as a hoy in that very same Suuday School. She had always been willing to help with anything in connection with the school, and he felt quite sure they were all very sorry to loso her. With these few remarks Mr liathbone made the presentalion, to which Mrs Keir suitably responded. The following is a copy of the words which accompanied the presentation : " Bespectfully presented to Mrs Keir by her fellow-teachers aud members of her class, in recognition of her devotion to the work ol Christ iu St. Mark's Sunday School, Carterton, during a period of twenty years. 'He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, briuging his sheaves with him.'" The new vicar of St. Mark's, thcliev, Mr Young, is already showing his energies, He is agitating for a new pipe organ for the Church, the estimated cost which is about £l3O. He is rasing subscriptions to defray the cost of the same, and tho list is headed by the Key. W. Booth with £SO. The Church members are responding freely to the call. , An information has been laid against a local holelkecper for alleged Sunday trading. A local settler has been summoned to show cause why a prohibition order should not be issued against him,