FEILDING NOTES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3863, 5 October 1899, Page 6

FEILDING NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) You will have heard of the death of Mr Alexander McHardy. It is anticipated that his funeral will bo an enormous’one, us I think lie was the most popular man in the district, while as ‘president of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society he was the most prominent. But for his untimely de.ath ho would have been elected an so it seems almost like a special intervention to give him a happy end after a useful life. There have been several small accidents, of which the most noticeable was through a tilting plank colliding in too great a hurry with Mr Darragh’s head, knocking him < senseless for a time,. Fortunately nothing was broken. There are persons in Feilding who think (hey recognise in the notice of James Walker Bain, the death of a former M.ILJ-f,., and the first in New Zealand to introduce female compositors. , Cricket .is coming in with the season', and I hear the champion club at Kimbolton has already had meetings to arrange a programme in anticipation of future triumphs. I perceive that the- Premier opoko in defence of several items of £IOO each for analytical protection in our food and drink supply. It is generally supposed that articles are- imported amongst srroceriea that dare not risk detection in England, and as it is within our common knowledge that one hotel can get the name of supplying better liquor than another, the Premier would have met with cordial support from the country if he had asked for ten times the amount to secure us from adulteration. I heard an interview between a town and country boy, both aged six. and the conversation was worthy of " Punch ”: —Town boy:Can you fight? Country hoy; Does that mean punching? Town boy; Shall I show you how to square up? Country boy: Oh, yes I Then you have to pay, me some money. A borough election has returned, very naturally, of the two candidates, the man who manufactures gas. The weather has been bitterly cold, with frequent east winds, and of course colds and coughs are prevalent. The Mayor and Council are believed to be still keening a water supply for Feild- ; ing steadily in view.