FOXTON.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1261, 30 April 1896, Page 18

FOXTON.

Our usually quiet town was in quite a simmer of excitement last week. It appears that some of tho local shopkeepers wrote Messrs Levin and Co. that tho steamer Queen of the South was bringing goods free of freight to some of tho residents, and asking that this should ho stopped. Tho captain and engineer had a meeting with those who signed tho letter, and demanded the grounds for such action on their part, but they failed to prove a single case, anil the statements are to be retracted. While the mooting was in progress a letter was written lo the owners of tho boat, commending the impartiality and courtesy invariably extended by the officers of the vessel to all parties, and this letter was signed by nearly all the business people of the place, who took this means of showing Captain Harvey and his officers that they had no sympathy with the complaint which lmd been laid against them. The first number of the Foxton Telegraph has made its appearance. It announces Liberal views, and promises to bo a thorn in tho side of the Herald.

A proposal is on foot to form a chess and draughts club here, and there is no reason why tiie club should not shortly ho an accomplished fact, and perhaps wo—even we ! —may jet furnish a champion for the Colony. Tho repairs to the Wirokino punt have been completed by Air A. Jauson, who lias dune his work well.

A man named W. Woods, while trying to catch a horse last week, was kicked, and received a compound fracture of the left leg. l)r Lamb rendered all the assistance in Lis power, and the patient, goes on to the Falmerston North Hospital.