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amateur friends, who kindly volunteered their valuable services the entertainment, so
diversified, was rendered all the more agreeable and entertaining. All seemed
thoroughly to appreciate the treat provided for them. We trust the members will not
slacken in their support of the Club, which is calculated not only to work much good,
but also to prevent much evil, by placing at the disposal of all the means of profitably
and happily spending their leisure hours.

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Sat 8 April
BIBLE SOCIETY
The anniversary meeting of the Wokingham Auxiliary was held in our Town Hall
on Monday evening, and was numerously attended. The chair was taken by John
Heelas, Esq., and the meeting was addressed by the Revds. P.G. Scorey, J.D. Palm,
and G. Jackson, also by the Rev. Philip Kent, the deputation from the Parent Society,
who eloquently advocated its claims, and gave some highly interesting details of its
operations, and the great success that had attended the efforts to circulate the Word of
God in all parts of the earth.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT
A few weeks ago we reported the proceedings of a meeting held here with a view to
the adoption of this Act at Wokingham. A petition has since been forwarded to the
Secretary of State, praying him to settle the boundaries of a district, comprising the
whole town and part of the parish to be placed under the powers of the Act, and
accordingly, notice has been given that on Wednesday, them19th inst., at one o’clock,
Robert Morgan, Esq., the Inspector, will attend at the Town Hall to enquire as to the
genuineness of such petition, and the propriety of the boundaries proposed therein;
when no doubt there will be a very full attendance of the inhabitants, to express their
views on the subject. A very great diversity of opinion exists, and we therefore deem
it best to at present abstain from expressing the views of either party in the interim.

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Sat 15 April
THE PRINCE OF WALES WITH HIS MAJESTY’S STAGHOUNDS
On Friday morning His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, attended by Major
Grey and Lt-Col Kingscote, the Prince’s Master of the Hunt, travelled by the South
Western Railway to Bracknell, by the Staines and Wokingham Railway. His royal
Highness on entering the train was met by Prince Arthur, who, attended by Lt. Haig,
had ridden over from Windsor Castle accompanied by the Earl of Besborough, the
noble Master of the Buck hounds, Major-General Hood, and suite, the princes rode
from the station to the meet at the Golden Ball Inn, Binfield, where a large field
assembled, numbering some 200 equestrians, among whom were several ladies and
officers of the Windsor garrison and from Aldershot. The veteran Queen’s huntsman,
Mr. Davis, was also in the field, as rode as smartly as ever. The animal selected for
the chase was “Doctor“, the celebrated stag, which in a late run, was captured in the
kitchen of Mr. Linnell, the Prince of Wales’ butcher at Windsor. The stag was
uncarted a short distance from the Shoulder of Mutton Inn, and the pack was soon
afterwards laid on.
Taking a course towards the South-Western Railway, the stag hung about the spot
for some little time and then crossed the line, doubling round the Bracknell Station,
and eventually making away for Swinley’s, ??, the forest, and on to Cumberland
Lodge. The chase was then again through Windsor Forest, across the Long Walk, and
away to the Sheet-Street-road Gate, Windsor. Down this road, which leads to the

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