BEACONSFIELD.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 874, 10 May 1909, Page 2

BEACONSFIELD.

LOCK OWN^ OORBESPONDENT.J We are sti^ enjoying the juost lovely weather ; 'antl although, we generally get a good many frosts about this time or tne year, so t'ai 1 there has only been an odd one or two this season. TJrass and rape have j been growing well all along, which is inducing some owners or fats to hold on to them, in the hope that a better price will be forthcoming later on. " Chaffcutters and threshing mills are kept pretty busy, and crops are r-uite up to expectation around here. Potatoes are now being p_ut on the market, but the .prices are low, and the yields not above the ordinary. A week's cannonading lias ensued, since the opening of the whooting season, and game seems fairly plentiful, as I have heard of several good bags including phea-. sants,, quail, grey duck, and pukako. I hear that a cricket match has been arranged between the milk suppliers to the Beaconsfield. creamery and the employees at the Cheltenham Dairy Company, to take place on Saturday next. One of the factory hands has issued a challenge to. run any three dairymen, around "the Cheltenham block, a distance of eight miles. I regret having to record a. very painful accident -which hapuened to Mr George Terry on May 1. While working a horse he received a nasty kick on the right arm, the bone being badly shattered. The 'school broke up hero on Friday, for a week's holiday. Before the children dispersed, May Taylor, on behalf of the pupils, in a few well ; chosen words, expressed their regret at losing their teacher and renuested Mr Goldsbury to accept as a fare- | well, present a pair of hair brushes and - comb suitably inscribed.