Birmingham Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 145, 4 June 1892, Page 2

Birmingham Notes

\ [from our own correspondent. I I see it is on the cards that there should be an alteration in the Mail Service between Wellington*nd Wanganui. "It is to be hoped that the trains will be driven at a faster rate than at present. I was told the other day a dog yarn. " A well known Birmingham man was at Palmerston waiting for the train to take him to Feilding, and having his dog with him he was requested to get a ticket for it, but on applying at the office the fare was so high that he would not take a ticket, so after some demur on the part of the railway people it was agreed that the dog should be fastened with a rope from the end carriage to his collar and so run after the train. When the first station was reached the guard looked to see how the poor dog was when to his surprise he found him quite lively and frisky. The word was passed on to the engine driver, and when neariug Feilding he put on what they call " Express " speed, expecting to have the dog killed before stopping the engine at Feilding. They again went to the rear, but no dog was found. Presently a whine, was heard on the platform, and there safe the " dog " impatient at being kept so long on that cold and desolate platform for his master. It appears the dog bit through the rope and so managed to arrivo first. In the notice re Kiwitea Mutual Improvement Society, it should be " purely" not "partly " unsectarian. The great loss to the district by the death of our late lamented member will be hard to fill. I hope the next member elected will be a " good and true man" one who will, like the late member, have the interests of the district and his constituents always uppermost in all the proceedings that occur in the House. I think that there is now a good opening for some young man to enter the lists and seek election as a member for the district but I am afraid the young colonials do not go in for the study of Parliamentary proceedings. Football, and horse racing seem to have taken up all their energies and thoughts. I hope lam mistaken. Electors ! see that your names are on the roll or you will be debarred from voting.