Centres and Bulls-eyes

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 126, 30 April 1889, Page 3

Centres and Bulls-eyes

Is it not time that something was done * . to stop the larrikinism th it exists in this town? After dark it is not safe for a lady to be about, or she is bound to hear some of the most disgusting and fifthy language that it is possible to put together. Examples should be made of one or two of these young blackguards, and I should be very much pleased to see the birch applied to some of them. Only ten householders in Feilding ! I ■v am trying to discover where the tents are pitched of the rernainins populatian. At a meeting called for last Tuesday night, to hear the yearly report and balancesheet and elect a new School Committee, only ten householders appeared on the scene. Ye gods ! Somettung is wanting, and I'll be bound to say that if it had been a fight between Laing and Smith — admission, free — the whole of the populace would hav j b 3en there, with the exception of the ten. So much for free State education. I see FeUding is going in for the popular pastime of linking. I trust them ■who are going in for the spree will make a good tLing out of it. If the Kink is properly conducted it is the best and most healthy amu: ement that both old and young can go in for. I have been waiting to see when the Council are going to make a move in the matter of repairing the approaches to bridges in the town. It is a standing disgrace to all concerned, and I trust they , will soon take tha matter up. The cost, I believe, is within their means. Two thousand pounds went through the totalisator at our last meeting. How some of the storekeepers' mouths must have watered to see the mone v, in many cases, being so recklessly thrown away. "Tbfi poor ivo-king man" far^R, at times, not a>t nil well, as the foiio.ving story shows : — On a station not 1000 miles from Feilding, the station hands have most of their tnoker doled out to them c cry F .nday m ming. Not being very big eaters, they could not, for the life of them, understand how their flour, sugar, &c, went so fast. They, like wise men, set a trap, a>']. my gen lie readers, they caught tue ±aA nisn in the worlu whom they suspected — their employer. I might state they are looking for fresh hands on that station. Arfce-ian Water 1 When will the ratepayers of Feilding wake up and do sorueih'naf for themselves and the good of the town ? The question of getting a supply of water was most ably brought forward by bur respected townsman, Mr Carthew, but the matter seems to have been lost sight of again. I think it would be a very £ood matter for the Fire Brigade to take up.