,. s Foxton i»riow .m , despair... . .The .last [ ptrajw- m abont to break >. the .camel's 'back. The local paper says': -^-One of .the Jeff ects.pf the.r.ecent"jsey«re drought i'wa* to deprive' Foxton bf ' y that i Tiaef lil 'help to domestic ponvtnience —a Chitiai; man's gaMe'n£* S '^uih)rturia^elyf *■■ iftie " alhion-eyedjcelestial '' took up a piece .08 ground which? was^lik.ely £tp suffer mufch m dry weather.,^ln. tjie previous seasons, wh'icb' "were -the re verso to dryyTihe "ground did very well, but this year " poor, John '\ had the bad luck to gee his crops .burnt right up* and aftir bravely fighting 'against' the adverse state of -things 1 for eom«' time, he had aU&Ma'jfiyeflE apd^aee,fc "fresh,] fields .and pastures now." Now the ordinary" local; of vegetables have not to compete against the- yellow man. i-"-: •■■:■.: -•■.■:,.■;■ -..<•. ■
As we ladicutedin. a, previous .issue would. probably bo. the case, Mr 'Hay-i.-ward?a hoTße' Riinbl^ has paiii Jth'6 .debt?of 'nature:. Notwithstanding, :Unremitted! attention, he-d^ed 'on Saturday last. : The loss isa serious i one for^Mx J Hayward, as,he had. scarcely owned: hiin sixjweekß; - ftambier >vas -by Southern iChief, and like'iriany another good ',qne wak Mcljed aboiitiu, fli butchery business before being raced; He was a giine bit' j. of wiiff, and : .won' a cbnsidwablo amount. r|t the various meetings on the , coast. Had; the; Hyedj m i Mr Hay wood's, ex^, periehced hands," if was deemed very have won something, ;gpi>d. J — Foxtoh paper. - , :: : '' : m the : 'caa«' in > which Mr Edward Shaw '-was caljedjupon to show causjejwliyjie.Bhould not be struck off thej rol|Bj will not bt given for a day or two at least. It is understood;. that Mr Justice RiohmoD^Jjas^d|ferred=hls decision, which was, expecie'd' to..be,",niade at the^ittini^^ließan^pourt morning, m b^aer'itfathe^nay-have i^an opportunity of^conMilting with the ChW JlU(tiC|.- t PO^ y r ? - ■;,- ;> ;A } A short" time aKo, s Mr W. • : "Cdl*miin, l -'oi Hop«f*pid toMr^Eljisfotthe same 10-, ..cajitv, a good staunch draught horte for tjii sum of • £20j Aand • ia^night ; ;j or,,-tw!o afterwards, when Mr Ellis ted the horse m jiW stable 7 :it wasiin: perfedt liealthj ku% rein the' following' meriting) he found if quite dead; r^The caoße ot i death .wa?i*, mystery, till Mr Coleman,' for." his : r «irn BatUfactioiij held & post mortem; exan\iiation; 'He 'soon- found.- evideoce;; th*t the cause of death had originated; from thje heart; and ■after further; exam jnutipu ; he foundlhat a safety: pin,; Vvhich hail become nearly, straightened ( had lodjEefi m; passing through theianinial,, and that a little more than an • inch of ; the • pihi protruded'throHgh thepassage, andihad just' reach fid the heart: Mr Coleman sayß that the pin only juft reached the heart, so that it- miist have been the be'a'tiHß'qf-the-heartthat cansed the pin to f lightly puncture that organ, for a turn m the pin pjfevented its* going further.' lihad evidently been .swallowed by the hbrse- with :itsiood;--!Nelion : Col : onisfc u -'->'-<- -;s=-;Ji..,i.--.l ;,:!)•;•■. v ,.•.:; ..[j Says the Timaru Beralfri-^lk it Tight toj tie-fowls'. 1 by t- th,e : Tegs -and 1 ' carfy^ them' alive J head J d6|rnwardß ?i« 'a* question which has c beeri ; asked' -bYer 1 and ■over, again. ; '. '■ Th'e ; Qruefty : tb Aiiimals Associa '■■'. tioiis'in th? old'''"G6unifcry 'have protested against' the pfdetice tiuiee without: number, but, so far > as s we t are >r awar»,'>without success. It certainly seeim to stand to reasbfrthat birds' we're" neveir- by nature mtehde'd to' statod'on s their beads- or; have them dragged' in that fashioii 'along the ground. ah'y 3 more than human beings! wpre. Were a man held by 'the 'heels as ! roosters or hens are,; he would m a few brief moraenti-bo seized with an apoplectic.; ;;0, ..' .! v '..■■.:' ■• . h ■<'• ■■ ■■': ; T '"'lf
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1668, 26 March 1886, Page 2
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