SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS AT FEILDING.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 8, 20 November 1878, Page 2

SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS AT FEILDING.

TO TUB BSJTQB. Snk, — Although I hjiTo baen a long-tim*-a resident m, Feilding, I wa* not awaare mitife last Sunday afternoon what e*ce£teni sport »? may be- seen ia full e-xereue m Feilding oife Sundays. To«r» is 5 Tery good open tpacfc of ground, opposite Mr Q»lcoau>eV resi--deece, aera«i the Kiiubo&ron ro»d, irkichi wa» the scan© of some good pcaetieo at cricket on- Sunday afternoon, which wa*. witn«4sed by a considumble- number of" young men, ' youth*, ajad boys; but «ft*ra while thj& crowd dirid«d intatwo parts X oa» moiety r^iruuning to witness the crickeK match, and tho othee going on to the Kilnbolt on road to witness two boy» racing twq° hora«a. bsckwardi and, forward*, i kpozK not liaw tnuny heats were run,, bat I knout the number wo* constdembbv and theyw&rft not done when X passed o& my wa£- ; homey Now, what i object to. is the need"les» enmity of racing Uowes on a hard inetaltsd road, A» fop the- teat, these young: men and boys might b» worse employed^ than »xaftu«ing Lh&uoietrea m. playing cricket on a Sunday ; and I have no doubt that all 1 tbis week, they will be- looking forward with, pleasant anticipation to. r#n©-vs the sport onj erery »uoreeding Sunday. Can. yoa tsll m»w if the Wellington Mt«s&tin\ i» open to thArpubho on Sundays; at aay readin^-rooiiu itt, the Procinciiil Dislrict of Wellington 9* Suroiy when cricketing and. horso-raoinj is. practiced on Sundays o*tr reading-rooms audf museums may also be- thrown open, to thfe pubHo. — I am, &c.,