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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 20, 2 August 1890, Page 2

The Manchester Road Board was sitting as we went to press. A very successful trial of digging ploughs toot place at the recent Wyndham Ploughing Match, (says the Southland Times, 14th July, 1890), at which one of Beid and Gray's and two imported ploughs competed. At the close of the trial, eight of the farmers upon the field (being elected by the committee to decide as to the merits of the different ploughs) were unanimous in awarding first prize to Reid and Gray ; and also 'first prize for best "crown," and first prize for " best finish." Bishop O'Dwyer, in hig Lenten Pustoral, referred at length to the increase of intemperance in Ireland, and c tiled on the Roman Catholic clergy to use every. fffort lo check the evil. The use of drink at Irish wakes and funerals the Bishop denounced in unmeasured terms, ■md called <>n the clergy to put this almost national practice down with the j/reatest stringency. Were the Irish p. ople temperate, h* said, none woald he better, for nearly all the polity and misery of Ireland was attributable to tht rice of intemperance.. . „ ;<■