HASKETON. The Jubilee festivities this pariah were very successfully carried out on Tuesday.  By the kindness of Colonel Barlow, the whole of the lawns, park, and pleasure grounds at The Shrubbery, gaily decorated with flags, were thrown open to the parishioners for their amusement.

The church bells rang early in the morning, and at 1.30 PM a service was held in the church, the Rev. T. H. Simpkin, a large congregation attending.  At three o’clock (previous to which a Jubilee medal had been presented to every man, woman, and child), 200 male and female parishioners sat down to a sumptuous dinner of cold joints of every kind, plum pudding, and home-brewed beer, in a spacious building at The Shrubbery, which had been tastefully decorated by Miss Moore and Miss Barlow.  In the catering department Mr. Joseph Smith and Mr, Edmund Barlow were assiduous in their duties in carrying out the arrangements of supply.  

After the Queen’s health had been in very appropriate terms proposed by Colonel Barlow, tobacco and pipes supplied to the men, an adjournment was made to the park, where athletic and other sports were carried out under the management of Mr. Buxton, Mr. Oxborrow, Mr. R. Harris, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Clement Smith, and the Rector. While this part of the proceedings were progress 170 children were entertained with tea and cake in Colonel Barlow’s barn, this portion of the community being ably taken in hand by the Misses Barlow, Miss Moore, and Mrs. Robert Harris.  After some further refreshment for the adults, dancing was continued on the grass until 9.30, when a grand display of fireworks was exhibited by Mr. Eustace Barlow.  After this, the entire company adjourned to field close by, where a huge bonfire terminated the Jubilee entertainment.

So a good time was had by all.

But sadly, with fireworks, we get accidents. The same page of the newspaper also carried the following harrowing story from Newmarket, where Colonel Barlow had been supervising a stud on behalf of Lady Stamford.

DISASTROUS FIRE AT NEWMARKET.

Park Paddocks was the scene of a fire attended with serious consequences on Wednesday evening. A great portion of the land in this locality belongs to Mr. Tattersall, the senior partner of the well-known Loudon firm of auctioneers, who has provided extensive stabling accommodation at Newmarket, near to which it is his practice to hold periodical sales of horses, which are occasionally attended by members of the Jockey Club, as well as the nobility, including his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. A portion of the premises are the occupation of Lady Stamford, Lord Stamford having for some years kept a stud, which on his death her ladyship resolved to maintain, and which has for some time past been under the supervision Colonel Barlow, of Hasketon, near Woodbridge. About half-past nine on Wednesday night some straw at the far end of a range of stables was observed be on fire, and soon the adjacent woodwork burst into a flame.  A few minutes before a young man named Stubbings, son of the steward, was in the vicinity, when he observed a display of fireworks in honour of the Queen’s Jubilee, near a cluster of trees, about 50 yards from the scene of the outbreak.  A portion of one the rockets was noticed to fall in close proximity to the straw the stables, and as this was almost immediately after seen to in flames, there can be no doubt that the conflagration was the result an accident, arising from the cause indicated.  Unfortunately, the wood-work at this portion of the yard was some of the eldest on the premises, and being tarred became highly combustible.  Nevertheless strenuous efforts were made to prevent the spread of the disaster, and especially to save the stock; eight or nine mares and foals having been, as it was thought, left in their respective boxes for the night. So rapidly, however, did the fire progress, that one, with its foal its side, perished before a rescue could be effected. This was Acme, with a promising colt fool by Retreat, and in foal again to St. Gatien.  In the adjoining boxes were the celebrated Geheimmiss, Mystery, Rosebud, Ravissaute, May, and the Malton stallion, Goldfield, and others.  Mr. Stubbings, the steward, having promptly turned them into the paddocks, they fortunately escaped. The Fire Brigade having been summoned, several members were promptly on the spot, under the command of Captain Hewlett, and the hose carriage quickly followed.  By this time it had become evident that the line of stabling in which the conflagration had originated was doomed to destruction, and with praiseworthy alacrity attention was at once directed to the adjacent premises, which were in imminent danger.  Only a somewhat stinted supply water buckets was first obtainable, but afterwards, by using the hose of both Brigades, water was ultimately conveyed from the High Street to the conflagration, and in comparatively short time the fears which bad been entertained as to the spread of the fire were at an end, the straw the burning posts being completely extinguished. Some idea of the devastating effects of the disaster, had the fire been allowed to spread may be imagined when it is known that there are about 150 boxes in the surrounding premises. The damage to the buildings is estimated £3OO, besides the loss of the mare and foal, valued another £100. We learn that Mr. Tattersall, who visited the scene of the outbreak on Friday, has determined to pay all incidental expenses attending the fire, and has generously given £5 to each of the Fire Brigades.