FEILDING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 132, 27 February 1908, Page 10

FEILDING.

Mr. F. Y. Lethbridge, M.P., left by train on Tuesday evening for Auckland, via the Main Trunk lino, where bo goes to act as judmy of sheep at the Hamilton show. , . The Taonui-Ohakea Tenuis Club play Wanganui for the Association Cup on Saturday, March 7,- at Taonui. Thero were sixteen cars on for the Feilding school excursion train to Paekakarild yesterday morning, and a large number of parents and children availed themselves of the opportunity of making a' visit to the seaside.

Feilding cricketers liavo every reason to feel proua of themselves. ■ They undertook to raise £50 towards the cost of converting the South Street reserve into n cricket ground. A swimming carnival and a 'garden party ivero held as. a means, of raising tljo money, and, according to statements just printed, the carnival yielded £45 profit, and the garden '.party '£25.' ' Before Messrs. G. ICirton and W. J. B. Trewin, J.P.'s, at the Feilding Court .yesterday, Walter .Harrod was charged with using obscene language, with striking the .guard, and; with disorderly conduct on tho railway trajn from New Plymouth to Palmorston on Tuesday night. He pleaded guilty to tho charge of striking tho guard and the disorderly behaviour, lint said ho did not. remember using bad .language. Guard Wintoh gave evidence as to accused's behaviour, and tho Bench decided to convict- on the whole threo charges. Mr. Trewin said the accused's,conduct had been that of a blackguard, and ho was .not fit to occupy a! cattle truck, Ipt alone a carriage containing respectable : passengers. 'On the first charge ho was fined £2, or 14 days' imprisonment;, on tho second £2, or 14 days' imprisonment; and on the third charge, a lino oij£s, or ono month's gaol was, inflicted, tho sentences to bo'concurrent. Accused was given seven days to : pay the fines. ~