Miscellaneous items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 151, 10 June 1893, Page 4

Miscellaneous items

. The foUp^rin^ is from the, Nepean Times, N.^.W. : ' Dis?ustinp ' and 1 degrading' are moderate terms when ' applied to the conduct of those per* lions who congregate to vooiferat« at the local football matches. Not only . ToaDpsters, but men of old age could be noticed on the touchline on Satnr- ' c^oy yelling as though their lives d«---1 penned upon it.. Barracking i? not a gportrmanlike charne'eristic, and it i« a remarkable fact that the touch-.•Une.yiVl-hard \* generally a. narrow:^chcsted h.erpn-waisted, large-mouthed mos(|uno-U}rucd individual who has no pretensions to athletics, but who lores to keep himself in evidence by ' bi^latatit screaming capacity. This applies to loys, young men, and old fogies, each and all of whom ought to know better, if they don't. A correspondent gives _'• Bohemian" . of the Christchurch Press some amiis* • ing particulars ot the unveiling of commercinl.*' shoddy "when the Unahine'i cargo nab discharged at tho Cape, alter the fire. Part of consisted oi pianos— and they looked terribly dis- . sipated and U torn up " when they were unpacked. The ?' rea.l " walnut ftno mahogany of their cases dad shed it< Teneer under the heat, ns an actress's face fiheds the paint, under vaseline, and there ixnoecd t,o the pitiless daylight stood the rough, u.uphined, un< n»Jßtok»b*e denl. 1 he"ivorj" of the kt>ys lrokcd like cocoonut ice. gon< wrong in the fry ii|gpan--a . -white, jn.lpy; Bho{>eh'ss mnfs'of Unmistakable relluloid. . 'infi-ie the cases of the pianos Were rammed" fiflf with mando lins, flutes, fiddles nnd instrument? enough for a w^iole orchestra — in de;fiance oi Customs regulations. The Lake Oounty Press is of opinioc that the incoming winter promises •tc afford great facilities for recovering gold from the bedß of ihe Molyneua and Shotover rivow. The past drj eeaeon has brought the rivers to i rery low level— lower than they have ever been known in autumn — and when frosts set in they must become exceptionally low, even for winter It would be well for those not doinf any better to give an eye to this matter, and make such early arrange ments as will enable them to take the fullest advantage of the specially favorable circumstances... Already tlu Press has heard of one ,or two miner* on the Shotover meeting with con sideranle succors.