Colac Bay

Western Star, 13 October 1908, Page 3

Colac Bay

('From Our Own Correspondent.) The main topic o,f conversation here just now is rowing, and the members are taking very kindly to the favourite summer pastime. Some of the members already promise to develop into first-class oarsmen. The membership is increasing rapidly, and the swcid which its forty-two feet by fourteen feet C*as proved too small. • j As an indication that this formation of a club here was a move in the, right. direction, was shown by the fact that a number of past’residents now living dpi various parts of the district arc sending in con!tr*buliiions voluntarily. On Wednesday, 14‘th inst., the club liokl a carnival in the hall and given a fine night should prove a very successful entertainment, as the members and the ladles of the, disitritot Wave spared no pains to provide the public with something out of the. ordinary. A dance is to be helrl after the entertainment is over. Tlie opening day is fixed for Wednesday, October 28. Last Friday night the church was simply packed to the doors on the occasion of the annual wind-up of the Band of Hope. The contractor, Mr Blue, has made a start with the native hall, and expects to I>c finished in about three, week’s time, Mr W. H.opgood was called away to Christchurch last week on account oj the serious illness of his mother in Unit city. Mrs Hop-’ good, who is wfil-kiiown' in 1 ’ the western district, has been ailing for some time, and I regret to say that she now lies in a very critical condition. Small hopes arc cmertaiined for her recovery, The 1 ’inr- Go s iron tramway from (he township to the wharf is now all pulled up. Ihe sum o! fiiC has been granted lj,v the Gov-rumen f, tor the continuation ‘T i‘ in it "I i’oim, road and £25 for Lake George I rack. We »r fin.\iousiy waiting for the coutraetfip oi 11 1. • Colac Round . Hill road to tun- up and! push the . work on.