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Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 284, 17 September 1886, Page 3

The Buahine Lodge will hold an Emergency Meeting on Wednesday nest, at 7.30 p.m. sharp. A notice, interesting to the Pahiatua West Special Settlement Association, is published in this issue. Stevens and Gorton’s next auction sale at Awahui will be held on Tuesday, the 21st inst. The entries, which are numerous, will be found in our advertising ' columns. Charles Siau will hold an auction sale of Mr J. T. Campbell’s furniture tomorrow at the auction rooms. The 21 ‘ years’ lease of the Woodville Domain will also be put up for auction. The Woodville Philharmonic Society’s first concert will be given on Tuesday next, in the Theatre Royal, when an excellent programme will be gone through. We hope to see a crowded house. The ( admission has been fixed at popular prices. We owe our Danevirke correspondent, and our readers generally, an apology for a blunder in the “ making-up,” which occurred in the report of the SeventyMile Bush Association’s meeting, pub- I lished in last issue, by which two “ locals ” ! got inadvertantly mixed up in the body el'the report. An ordinary meeting of the SeyentyMile Bush Settlers’ Association was held at Danevirke yesterday. Pre- t sent: Messrs Leach (chairman) Groom, Small, Tansey, Baines, McCallum, delegates, and W. C. Smith, Esq., M.H.R.(at the request of the delegates). —Mr Smith i (at the request of the meeting) made a lengthy statement as to the various matters that had been brought before him affecting the district during the late sessions of Parliament.—Moved by Mr McCallum, and seconded by Mr Baines, that a hearty vote of thanks be recorded to W. C. Smith, Esq., M.H.R., for the interest he had taken in advocating the interests of the Association as well as the district as a whole. Carried unanimously.—The question held over from last meeting re cumulative voting at school elections was discussed, but ordered to be held over till a future meeting.—liesolved on the motion of Messrs Tansey and Groom, That it is the opinion of this Association that advances should be made to deferred payment settlers up to one half of their improvements, at a low rate of interest, and that a clause be_ drafted and sent to the member for the district to be introduced in Macandrew’s bill, which provides for the borrowing of money by small farmers. —The appointment of secretary which was held over from last meeting was them considered. Mr Small * stated that as the former advertisement was so ambiguous, no time and conditions having been stated, he moved that fresh applications be invited at a remumeration to be fixed at 2s per member per year. Applications to be sent in by noon on Iriday, 21st Oct., at Norsewood, and addressed to the Chairman. Seconded by Mr Bains, An amendment was moved by Mr McCallum that the offer of Mr H. Graff be accepted ; it lapsed for the warn of a seconder. The meeting then adjourned.