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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 137, 9 December 1896, Page 2

Muggins : " Is your son in business ?', I}ug»ius : " He's a contractor." Muggins : '• What line ?" Buggins : " Debts." A Yuba city lady, who was pestered, as many people are, by other fplks' chickens scratching' up her flower beds aud littering up her yard, bit on a novel scheme for conveying a gentle hint jsp. neighbours. She tied a lot of strong pasteboard cards with small threads to big kernels of corn, and wrote on the cards, " Please keep your chickens at home." The chickens ate the corn, and carried the message to their owners in a manner that was startling and effective. The privileges in connection with the Polo Sports, to be held on Wednesday, December 16, were sold to day by Messrs Gorton and Son, Mr D. Younger secured the outside gates for £12, the correct cards for £S, Mr £. Christian the booth for u'2 and Mr J. Anderson the horse paddock for ss. Another Record Broken ! W. A. ThoiiJson, of t'he'Oaniaiu Rovers Club* who sot out ! from Wellington last night (26'tih November), to break the bicycle record to Napier\ achifeyed" the feat. He smarted at mjefriighfc, and arrived here at 12 minutes pasji 'six, m'aliipg the] time 18 hours aud 12 ui|nutes. Wakeman's previous record was ; .^f • bporff % minutes. Thomsou road a Quadrant inaphijje; Jf'. Dunigh, A^ui, ' ' '