Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 98, 16 February 1892, Page 2

Ashurst Notes

_ • (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)' !>' It is thought that our -athletic sports l will be very attractive this year. , The , prizes are good and large fields^ are .expected. The course is to have some . money spent on it. There is a lair sprinkling of real Patrick's in our neigti- , borhood, who turn out in ftuTforoe on the festive day of their patron saint. There was a very good rule passed at a recent meeting of the sports committee,: That all members not attending for three following meetings be struck off. thia^list r and others elected. This will : have the effect of working members only remaining - in office. Marat, during the French Bevo- \ lution, tried the idea, he guillotined some 7 of the lukewarm ones, as he said : pour ) encourager les metres. . '._ The bridges on the Falmerston road are - being thoroughly overhauled and" timber » traffic is stopped. Although we" haVe' a 3 railway yet the timber continues Sto go by road. . The patentee of the movable turnip 5 fence, who has lately started hei?e/,is mak- . ing a large quantity of the fencing suitable , for turnips ready for the. autumtf feeding. ' A man can rollup a^cliain-of-this fencing and carry it on his shoulder.^ Mr -PieJjfcy , has also an establishment in tnverca'rgifl. The machine for twisting the wire is most ' ingenious and yet simple. 'It is well , worth a visit to the Feilding road sawmill 1 to see. ' •'■ . : • ! *>■■ -■■-r;; T l At Mr Adsett's Pohanginamill the hand of the engine-driver came in contact with the circular saw. The hand was damaged, ! but not yery much. Mr W. Francis, of the Ulyssis road, has succeeded very well as a sheep s former this year. He bought 80 ewes last autumn ; for 10s 6d each ; they reared .103 jambs, ' which he sold at 9s each all round, and . then sold his ewes for Us 6d each. The latter had averaged 61bs of wool which ', realised 6d per lb in Palmerston.