INGLEWOOD. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7961, 3 September 1887, Page 2

INGLEWOOD. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

September 3. — The Inglewood Quadrille party hold their laßt ball for the Beason on Friday evening, in the Inglewood Town Hall, and although the weathar was very much against it, being extremely wet and boisterous, yet withal there was a pretty good attendance. Tho Town Hall was nicely got up with evergreens and other appropriate symbols. Tho young ladies were neatly dressed for tho occasion, and not over done, as I have seen them in other places. Tho young gentlemen were also up to the mark. To see the young ladies and gentlemen in their ball apparei, no one would say," we were hard up in Taranaki." It is. not a bad country, after all, this 'New Zealand. He would be counted a well-to-do fellow in the Old Country who could sport v horse. I knew a clerk who kept a hunter and half a dozen foxhounds on an income of £60 a year. In addition he kept a butcher's books for offal for his dogs, and those of a miller's for oatSj &0., for his horse. I tell you he was counted no small man. He went by the name of « Bob, the swell." A child six years of age, belonging to Mr. John Henwood, living pear Waiougona, was struck by lightning this morning, while standing outside the house. The child is insensible, and fears are entertained that it will not recover.