Australian Town and Country Journal at KellyGang 6/11/1875 (2)

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The Sons of Temperance have grown to be such a very big and promising family in this district, that they are about to launch out into building operations. They have purchased a very fine piece of ground at Newtown, and are about to erect a large hall, and lodge and reading rooms.

The promises of amusement for the celebration of the Prince of Wales' Birthday are numerous and as usual the majority take the picnic form. The Church of England Sunday-school children are to have their picnic and having in view Bishop Sarkers's speech at the Morality Society, the other day, the projectors had better look that the affair is without reproach. His Lordship does not appear to favour the idea of regaling Sunday-school children in this way, and I must suppose would have been shocked and scandalised if he were at this affair last year, when our archdeacon might have been seen delighted by posting the Sunday school children up in the correct mode of indulging in that refining pastime catching greasy tailed pigs. This year we haven’t got our archdeacon, and a good many parents I can assure you hope we shan’t have the pigs either.

The Wagga bend is to give a picnic, and propose winding up with a ball in the evening. A very good programme of athletic sports has been prepared for the day's proceedings, and some liberal prizes are offered. The band will of course “discourse most excellent music," whilst the athletes are distinguishing themselves.

A new Roman Catholic school is to be opened here on the 7th inst. and the Wesleyans are about building a church at Brucedale in place of that used as a school formerly, and which was burned down some time ago. A new school has also been promised by the Public School Board for Forest hill, a place a little way out of town, Kyamba Creek direction, which has a good population settling about it.

We are having lively times of it with the cricketers since the rival club was formed at Newtown. Every Saturday finds us with a good match on, and the townspeople generally take a good deal of interest in the game. Our boys are very fond of cricket - rather too fond of it, says the Police Magistrate, who last week had to deal with seven or eight youngsters who were summoned by the police for playing cricket on the Sunday. The Police magistrate let the boys off easy, and advised them not to be caught playing cricket any more on the Sabbath - a piece of advice the youngsters may take as a hint to go further out of town for their game when next they try it on.

The annual meeting of the Building Society was held on Saturday, at which a very satisfactory report and balance sheet was read. The society is, I believe, in a prosperous position, and pays in dividends this year £1138 2s, 4d.

The Victoria steamer paid us her last visit for this year on the 15th Instant. The river is now very low, so much so that the Princess got fast about Naranderra on Monday, and to discharge her cargo where she was.

The stock market for the past fortnight has not been very lively, in fact for the last week little or nothing was done. The late rains, however, lead to anticipations of much activity in store cattle before long, and as shearing is now closing, in most places on the river, we may look for any amount of sheep transactions in about a month or so.

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