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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 39, 23 February 1878, Page 2

A beautiful lunar rainbow vt as, visible^ about nine o'clock on. Thursday night, ip, tho western, sky..

In ot^r report on Wednesday lust, the name of J. ]$. Flower, who reoeived a certificate and prize was inadvertar\ti;y left out. Master- MQvyer can^e Qi\t first m .the. third standard. Qn. Thursday nejqt Mr. E. St. Thynne Vfilli sell by public auction.) household and farm, affects, at .SpiJdhurst Cottage, Avenue Epadj Eoxton. Sale to. commence at 2 p.m. In another, colqmn of this, issue is. a list of the effects to he disposed of, to. which -^c invite the attention of aI.V interested, persons. An event o£>' Spflne importance, m. the historical, ajinula oJTtlia township, o.f Tro.ndheim took place*^ during the week. It ia n.Okthing less, than tha birth of tha first child m ths^t townsh,ip, the parents beingMr and Mrs "Es,.£Jone3. We are informed that the little stranger, a boy, bids fair. to. be a credit to. his natal sp,ot^ he being a first-class sample of humanity. It lias been rumoured that the supper, which was provided, for those who regained after, the. dramatic entertainment; for the. dance on Monday night, was a charge upon the pro.ceeds of the dran^atic perforn\ance. We are revested, to. give thjs report the. most emphatic contradiction. The supper Was furnished a,t the private expense of the members who. got it up, and was not m, any wray a charge upon the club. A distressing and fatal accident occurred las.t Tuesday at-TFoxton to a boy, the son of Mr Nasl^ o,f foxton.. The boy was. sent by hip father to. tether, a horse, m a padd;ock : not far from his residence. Shortly afterwards a man named Johnspn, w;as coming up the road and saw a hprsa galloping, towards film. The horse appeared to. have a rope filing \yith spmething a,ttached A which on, examination, proved to. be. the bo.dy oi the boy completly sm,ashed. Gph & deceased had become entangled m the. rope, when, the horse toojt fright, and by thorough transit over logs and stones, aiyl through the fence of the paddock; his neck and'limjbs were dislocated. <v fractured; and life rendered extinct. It appears that Constable Gillespie is. f ully determined to carry out his instructions relative to the stray cattle nuisance that has b^en, so often the subject of 90m,---plaint. Scarcely a Court-day passes without some of the- settlers m this district appearing under sujnmpns fop tliis offence, and 1 , m every case, they are subjected, to a nominal fi>ip, wifchthe costs of Court added. This is a wasteful process to the settlers, and ap, annoyance to all concerned. It is, pretty evident that it is of each settler to.keep lu%animals off the highways, and so out of the reach of our energetic copstablp. i(