The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1891. Disorderly Footballers

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 21, 18 August 1891, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1891. Disorderly Footballers

Footballers should feel keenly tlie reflection cast upon them by tbe rider added to tbe verdict oE the jury who sub on tbe iuquest ioto tbo death of John Hooban, a full report of which w© publish today. Although there was not much in the evidence to connect the cause of the death of tbe man, with the n'jise, made by any paifcionlev twain, ye* it was ciuar enough tbut the Coroner, as well as the jury, associated ;

the two in their minds. That footballers are guilty of the most outrageous conduct, when going or returning from matches, is a well knnwn fact, but in corroberaliou we publish the following from ibe lianawatU Times of yesterday : — " Football teams going to and t'fom the match grounds should be care I' a I not to frighten passing horses. On Saturday two ladies and a youth were returning to Palraerston in a buggy to which a youug horse was auached, when a football team passed by with their banuer flying aud making a gieat noise. Tiie horse shied aud rau up tlie bank to the great alarm oi." the ladies. It is staled that tbe football team instead of retnaiuing quiet 10 allow the horse to regain his composuie, made a still greater noise am! seetneil to en.i".y tbe fun. Several complain la of a like nature have been ma<l« Ifue'y." A couespondent wtiiea us th^s moin'ng- " two lad es." one of those 1 be wiTe oP a so ic-fcor, " uad the same expeneuee a% that referred to in ibe rairaetalon papeis." No doubt wben the police begin tn make euquii es, as they aie ]>ledged to do, hundreds of similar instances of wanton recklessness will be brought to light. la the meantime we wot'ld advise all teams that weie on tbe A wahuri- Feilding road, and I?angi tikei Hue on Satutday last, to take thfi hint they have now received, aud eudeavour to behave in future move lifee sensible men, than a lot of drunken sailors on a spree, when they are travelling.