Special Settlement
The success of the meeting on Thursday night, which was called by the Mayor to consider the question o forming a Special Settlement under the Government Land Regulations, showed that the old spirit has not died out oi those settlers who were first to assist in the establishment of the Manchester Block as a Special Settlement. It was pleasurable to notice that those who in the early times had " borne the heat and burden of the day " were the first to come forward and pledge themselves to again unite in the act of "conquering the wilderness." Their example was rapidly followed by the younger men, and a list was filled during -the evening containing the nanfes of enough "good men and true" to guarantee the ultimate prosperity of any undertaking made by them in common. Although the population of this settlement is not so dense as to admit of the loss of forty or fifty men who are naturally the most industrious as well as adventurous, yet when it is remembered they will not altogether sever their connection with us for some years to come, the feeling of regret is removed. We hope that no obstacle which, in the course of the furtherance of their scheme, may arise, will be allowed to turn them aside from the path they have entered upon.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 103, 14 February 1885, Page 2
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224Special Settlement Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 103, 14 February 1885, Page 2
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