During the examination or the boys at one of the superior schools in this district a few days ago, one of the papers set was to write down what was known of. John Wesley. One of the replies wajß as follows :— " In his youth he was :a great preacher. He afterwards became a^, soldier, and went to India where heY wo* many battles. He then won the battle of Waterloo, and died Duke of Wellington.'* —Post. Can there be a dead set against Mr Goschen among the Eadicals p It has long seemed like it, and now Mr Chamberlain and Sir Charles Dilke are accused by the Times of conspiracy to exclude Mr Goschen from the : <next Liberal Administration, and; even from,the'House of Commons. This charge is- .based on Mr Chamberlnih's allusioriin his election address to men "who' seek to stereotype the Liberal creed, and to make vain and fruitless the : reforms- they. "endeavour to prevent." Mr Goschen is a little too much, it is thought, for the united foroo of Dilke and Chamberlain,— Globe,
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 87, 2 January 1886, Page 2
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175Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 87, 2 January 1886, Page 2
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