Windsor & Richmond Gazette, Saturday, March 10, 1900 - page 3 Town Gossip. The Rev. A. S. Swift has been in Sydney attending the Wesleyan Conference. Copies of "Bushman to the Front" (Chas. Huenerbein) may be had at the Gazette office. Price 2/-. Mr. L. A. Simpson, dentist, can be consulted at the Fitzroy Hotel next Wednesday and every succeeding Wednesday. Messrs. M. Cornwell and John Neil intend volunteering for the next contingent. It is also probable that Mr. Clarry Hayes will volunteer. The annual exhibition of the Nepean District A. H. and P. Society will be opened on March 14 (next Wednesday), and continue on the two following days. Castle Hill Show takes place on the 4th and 5th April. Entries close on the 24th instant, with the Secretary, Mr. Frank Rogers, or Mr. R. A. Pye, Windsor. Butchers, bakers and milk-vendors should remember that it is compulsory to fill up the prescribed form showing the half-holiday taken by their carters. Next Tuesday night Mr. James Simpson, the popular teacher of Freeman's Reach School, will give a lantern lecture in connection with the Windsor L. and D. Society. On Wednesday, next 14th inst., a grand concert will be held in the Windsor School of Arts, when a capital programme is promised. The entertainment is in aid of the Wesleyan circuit fund. Mr. George South resumed duty at the local Post and Telegraph office to-day (Friday) after a most enjoyable holiday at Sackville and round the metropolis. Mr. Hilton Hayes, of Freeman's Reach, son of the late Thomas Hayes, has passed the necessary examinations to qualify for the mounted police. He is an intelligent young man, and the right stamp for a trooper. Mr. F. Fewings was riding along Macquarie-street on Friday last when his pony put its foot on a soft spot where a water hydrant was leaking. The horse plunged and for a while its foot was fast. When it got free the animal fell and rolled over several times with its rider. At St. Matthew's Church of England on Sunday thanksgiving services for the recent British victories in South Africa will be held. Special music will be rendered. The Rev. S. G. Fielding will deliver an address on the religious aspect of the recent victories. Replying to the deputation which recently waited upon him from the Hawkesbury Agricultural Association, asking for a special grant, Hon. J. L. Fegan said that no one could have done more in the direction of attempting to secure such a grant than had Mr. W. Morgan, M.P., who had interviewed him several times on the matter. Mr. L. Maloney, formerly manager of Hatte's drapery establishment, is striking out for himself in Windsor, and opens a drapery establishment next week opposite the Gazette office, in the premises just vacated by Mr. E. J. Cupitt. Mr. Maloney intends to employ most of the lady assistants that he had in Hatte's shop. Read his advertisement in this issue. Returns from Mulgrave Station for February, kindly furnished by Mr. Westall : - Gross tonnage dispatched, 1,339 tons, 16cwt 3qrs ; No. of trucks, 293 ; firewood, 1,095 tons 14cwt 1qr ; No. of trucks, 126, Hay, 136 tons ; No. of trucks, 34. Potatoes, 553 tons 2cwt 3qr ; No. of trucks, 98. General goods, 54 tons 19cwt 3qrs ; No. of trucks 35. Total, 1,839 tons 16cwt 3qrs ; tot al number of trucks, 293. 4,449 bags potatoes, 63 bags maize. With reference to the letter from Mr. Jas. Hancock in our last issue, re public meeting at Bullridge, Mr. W. Moses has handed us the list of "ayes" and "noes" taken when the 'house" divided on the question of altering the name of the Public School from "Morgan." It is admitted that three Freeman's Reach residents and one minor voted with the "ayes," but it is also claimed that six non-residents of the Bullridge voted with the "noes."