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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 130, 1 December 1896, Page 2

The Manchester Road Board will meet on Saturday next. It is understood that tbe Borough Council meeting fixed for Thursday next will be adjourned until the following Monday. A claim is put forward that the Czar is to some extent a Scotchman. Czar Panl, when in London, is said to have fallen in love with a Miss Macgregor, a young lady noted for her beauty, who happened to be riding her Shetland pony in Hyde Park. He married her privately, so tbe story goes, and she was the mother of Nicholas I. The present Czar would therefore be her great-grandson. A young whale has been caught at | AlasVa and fed with milk out of a bladder till it would come at call. What (says James Payn) seems to detract from his intelligence is that he allowed himself to be harnessed, which as tbe patriarch Job tells us, Leviathan never did it m his time. You could not "put a hook in his nose." But there was no Captain Jackson Barry in those days. The creature in question now draws a whaleboat with punctuality and despatch between an island and tbe mainland -an occupation which strikes me (says Mr Payni as being at the same time very unlike and very like a whale. Next 1 Trout Fishing 1 We solicit orders for fishing requisites. We have ia stock trout bags, fishing waders, fishing stock* ings. Cycling ! Weare showing cycling touring bags, cycling sweaters, cycling racing suits, etc. New Zealand Clotbiug Factory, Feildiog.— ■ Advt.