Windsor & Richmond Gazette, Saturday, March 3, 1900 - page 4 Riverstone Marble playing amongst the school lads is the order of the day now. Also "smugging." A large new boiler for the meat works arrived this week. The value is thought to be between £400 and £500. Leo Ireland and Willie Wiggins, two small lads, hooked something like 150 sprats in South Creek last week. A local musician has been offered a big weekly wage to travel with a dramatic troupe. The offer has not been accepted. Water and grass are now very scarce around here, and if rain does not soon fall all stock will have to be driver to Eastern Creek. Mr. Steve Upton and other carpenters have been engaged lately at the meat works in making ventilation on the tallow shed for the escape of smoke. A local cyclist is of opinion that to start that to start riding bikes with a view to putting up big records, unless he is likely to become a champion, is nothing less than a farce. He thinks it is all right as long as one only goes for a pleasure ride. Mr. E. Williams, wheelwright, has left the district, as also Mr. Stevens, tailor, lately employed by Mr. James Aird, and Mr. Joe Williams is away at North Sydney having secured a job there at his trade, tinsmithing. Kelsey plums grown at Mr. J. J. Pye's orchard reached a wonderful size this year, notwithstanding the severe season experienced. It is a splendid fruit. Mr. S. Pye's grapes were unequelled for quality and size. The road leading to Schofield's Siding is now a perfect ash bed. A small boy lost a shilling one night during the week crossing near Mr. C. Davis' Store but one might as well seek for a needle in a hay-stack as to look there for it. Prospectors have been at work. At present there is a bike craze in the Riverstone district. A great many of the employees of the meat works now ride to and from the works, and can steer their machines in an accomplished style. There has been for some time a match talked of between S. Cragg and Alf Wiggins. A meeting for the purpose of making arrangements for the annual Tea-meeting in connection with St. Paul's Church was held in the School-room on Friday night last week. The Rev. Mr. Piggott occu[pied] the chair and there were present a fair number of the parishioners. Mr. E. Vaughan was elected hon. sec. and Dr. W. B. Studdy hon. treasurer. A committee of ladies, comprising Mesdames Heslop, Piggott, Ayling, Johnson, Studdy, Bell, Sargeant, and Wheaton with power to add to the number was elected. Mrs. Wheaton volunteered to collect in the Marsden Park district, and it is likely that some collectors will come forward and canvas the Riverstone locality. The entertainment is fixed for the 14th inst.