Foxton News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7937, 19 October 1904, Page 5

Foxton News.

(From our own Correspondent.)

Bad luck seems to be pursuing the steamers owned by Messrs Levin and Co. Yesterday as the Baden-Powell, anew addition to the fleet, was coming up the river on her first trip to Foxton, she got out of the course and stuck fast on &■ sand bank nearly opposite Mr Duncan's residence, a few hundred yards below the wharf.', When she first stuck she was slewed round and backed up the river, but in doing so she got too far across th© river with the result that she stuck fast on a mtich worse spot. She is. laden w^th' general merchandise and may be got oS to-morrow on the spring tide. . '. ' A sensational bolt occurred here at-mid-day yesterday. A horse attached, to a Maori vehicle got the blinkers off inMain street and galloped madly through the street in the direction of the racecourse, evidently bound for Moutuiti pah. It negotiated the comer at Victoria Park safely, but the vehicle capsized: near the slaughterhouse and the horse got free from the harness. The conveyance was considerably damaged. The football season here has not yetfinished. A match is to be played to-day between a team from Walden's mill* Moutoa, and a tearii of Motuiti natives. On Saturday a mixed team from the various Foxton teams will "engage theWanderers in a return match.

A cricket match is to be played shortly between the east and west sides of Main-street when a scientific display of the game is sure to be given. Another match between the Debating Society and the Band is alsoon the boards.