FOXTON NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 26, 30 December 1925, Page 10

FOXTON NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) The weather during tlie holidays was perfect, which added to the people’s enjoyment. ? The local stationmaster says that there was a marked increase in the Foxton passenger traffic during the Christmas season. Mr and Mrs Paul Hockley, of Gisborne, are paying a short visit to relatives in Foxton. The Borough Council will afford ratepayers an opportunity to endorse its progressive policy in regard to improved roads and footpaths early in the New' Year. The maternal instinct of a spaniel, owned by Mr H. Homer, of Johnston street, was exemplified in an extraordinary and heroic manner recently. A cat, shortly after giving birth to two kittens, mysteriously disappeared, and leaving her blind offspring. Mr Homer decided to drown the kittens in the orthodox manner. The faithful dog watched the proceedings, and upon the departure of her master rescued the kittens and carried them to her sheltered yair and mothered them to her sheltered lair and mothered them with the warmth of her body. The following morning Mr Homer failed to discover the bodies of the kittens in the water, but was attracted by the excited and greatly pleased dog. and the pitiful cries of the kittens, which had been nursed back to life by the dog, who refused to leave them.