Featherston Notes.
(From Our Own Correspondent,) This morning Mr K. McKenzio loft by train for Wellington, with the racer Porepo, who has accepted for the Hawera races. Sedition was also to have gone, but had the imbfortune to receive a rather severe kick from another horse while trainingyesterday. I was shown a /ew days past a monster eel, caught near Mr J. Murphy's, measuring no less than jk five feet long, and weighing over 27 pounds. Yesterday afternoon, whilst Mr and Mrs Kent-Johnston were riding to Grey town, the former was thrown from his horse, and received a bit of a shaking. Tho horse was fresh, end the girth loose, and when passing Clifford's Square, the animal started prancing, "svifcli the result that both the saddle and rider came off. Beyond a little shaking, no barm was dons, and the horseman Tvas soon it) bis saddle again.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4946, 8 February 1895, Page 3
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147Featherston Notes. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4946, 8 February 1895, Page 3
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