Centres and Bulls-eyes

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 128, 4 May 1889, Page 2

Centres and Bulls-eyes

New firebell a great Buccess ! May it grow rusty for want of ringing ! On good authority I hear the old bell is already sold to a Sewing Machine Company ! They are going to make it up iuto noiseless sewing machines 1 This is sarcasm ! Fire engine to arrive shortly ! Brigade funds very low ! Will not the. public step out, and arrange a series of concerts, &c, to help tl • c who are always ready to keep othe s and have for their motto, "United to pjotjet!" Good cause and | ought to be supported ! The Laing-Srnith fight stopped after thirteen rounds ! If the police had stopped it before it commenced — that'B how we put it in Ireland — they would have gained the respect of every right-thinking pecson in the land! j Fancy, five shillings admission, and a ! good crowd there at that ! They do say that a parson was thei*e ! I know him well, and a real good sport he is 1 Post Office robbed ! Safe carried away I More than one in the job, you may depend 1 We are growing more like London every day 1 Foolish idea to think that if the police had been here the robbery would not have been committed 1 Government ought to see to safes and make them more secure ! Nevertheless, it is a good lesson ! Our footballers improve every day ! I hope they will go in for plenty of practice and win all before them ! When "On the Ball " their language is a bit rough, but I've been told its all in the game 1 Bank of New Zealand coming back into old form ! Good thing for the country ! Shareholders smiling; but I think they are entitled to a peep at the report 1 Looks better, you know I Jackson, the prisoner who escaped from Wanganui Gaol, swam the river and when half way across was seized with cramp ! When asked what he was thinking about when likely to drown, he said " He was wondering whether his mother would get his life insurance 1 " That's good for the boyl _______________