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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 33, 28 August 1886, Page 2

Mr B. Ward has beeu appointed a Trust Commissioner under the Native Lands Fraud Prevention Act, 1881. Captain Edwin telegraphs 10-day — Warnings for heavy in r i.erly gales have been sent to nil places south ofJNapier and Wanganui The sale of fruit trees, at Messrs F. R« Jackson and Co.'s sale room, Kiinboltori Road, was proceeding as we went to press. The attendance was large and prices satisfactory. At the lust meeting of the vestry of St. John's Church it was decided to take active steps to put (he finances of the Church, as regards revenue and its col» leclion, on a sounder footing than has ol'lained lor some tiui<> past. A meeting ot ladit'B of the congregation will be held at an early dale with this object in vii>w. A new Resident Magistrate is about to be appointed at Wellington, in place of I Mr Wardell who will be stationed at the Wairarapa. If we may judge by the vague hints we get in the Wellington papers, the Minister of Justice is worried to death almost with " wire pulling" applicants and their friends. j In the estate of Alexander Gray, of Foxton, the following names of newspaper ; proprietors and printers appear in the j list of creditors: — Blundell Bros., of the ' Post, £44 8s 2d; E. Burrett's estate, ' Wellington, £6 9s 3d; J. C. Harris, of 1 the Times, Wellington, £17 16s 4d; Lyt- < telton Times Company, of Chnstchurch, i £2 13s 9d ; H. I. Jones and Son, Wan.- | ganui, £'6 16'» 4d, t