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PENNY READINGS
These popular Readings will shortly be resumed by the Committee of the Institute,
who are anxious to secure the services any gentleman willing to promote the success
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of these entertainments. Tuesday the 1 of November, will be the first night of the
Readings, and they will be continued every Tuesday evening.

CHARITIES
On Wednesday, the Alderman and Corporation as Trustees of Archbishop Laud’s
Charity, met to award two apprenticeship premiums of £21 each, to boys born in the
town of Wokingham, when Watkin William Wynn and Jan Taylor were elected. They
afterwards distributed the charity of Mrs. Yarnold to blind persons when the sum of
£35 ten shillings was divided amongst ten candidates.

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Sat 12 Nov
POST OFFICE
It may not be generally known that considerable alterations have recently taken
place in the dispatch of the mails from Wokingham. The box closes at 7.20 in the
evening for the ordinary mail, and for the day mail at 12, at noon, and these two mails
are the only ones made up, the early morning mail to Reading being discontinued, so
that all letters for our own neighbourhood must now be posted by 7.20 p.m.

INCOME-TAX APPEALS
The Commissioners will sit to hear appeals at the Town Hall, Wokingham, on
Friday next, for the following parishes, viz., Arborfield, Barkham, Binfield
Easthampstead, Finchampstead, Winnersh, Wokingham Town (Berks and Wilts); the
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remainder of the parishes in the Forest Division being taken on Thursday, the 24 .

VESTRY MEETINGS
On Thursday last, one of the most numerously attended Vestry Meetings ever held
in the parish took place in the Town-hall, to elect an assistant overseer for the parish
of Wokingham. There were several candidates for the office, but they all withdrew but
two, previous to the nomination when, on a show of hands being taken, Mr. Henry
Ifould was elected by a large majority.

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Sat 26 Nov
J L Roberts was chairman of the Literary Institution,

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Sat 11 Feb
WORKING MEN’S CLUB
This useful Institution is now, we are glad to say, in full operation; and the rooms
are nightly filled by the members, who have joined in large numbers, and who seem to
much enjoy and appreciate the comforts and social recreation provided. On Monday
evening last the opening of the Club was celebrated by a social soiree to the members
and their wives and friends. Tea was most abundantly served in the Town-hall, which
was well filled; and during the evening addresses were delivered by the Chairman
(P.L. Soames, Esq.) the Rev. Mr. Solly, secretary of the London Working Men’s
Institute, and other gentlemen. A number of glee and songs were given by a party of

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