The Fielding Star. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31,1891. 1891.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 78, 31 December 1891, Page 2

The Fielding Star. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1891. 1891.

-' - » -. The year which will have run its course tp-day has been an uneventful one a* regards this, part of the colony. That there^/'iiM^'been' an unusual amount, .Pjt ncKneos, . j and; in cpnsegaence,^re^'^li/j^^.ypnng 'faces have' 'wej^^aJrtjty noted with regret, but on the other hand we have mach to be thankful for. Settle*, meat has progressed at a steady, uniform pace, and many thousands of acres which were last year covered with dense virgin forest have been cleared, and aJreadyjare carrying stock in^Kfge" numbers. The flocks and. herds have /mcreased, while the prices for -sheep and cattle have obtained ay height /.seldom before equalled or exceeded 7 , in the colony. This means that;the farmers, individually and collectively, been remarkably ' prosperous., -" Where they are doing well it. naturally fpllowa as j the day^foilows^ne night that all business; people within the radius of their | influence,have also done well. In the town of Feilding; several "large and costly ; buildings have been erected, j and the 'streets,; bridges, and roads j much improved in ..appearance by the] judicious management:' of., the Borough Council. Other things being equal, we can say with confidence that there is nomore thriving town and district than this in the whole colony. We have a word to say for ourselves, which may be considered excusable; under the exceptionable circumatances. During" the past year we have added largely to our machinery, and have thereby been enabled to issue a much larger sheet than heretofore. Had we not shared in the prosperity .which b as ' attended the district we could, .not have incurred this large expensej-ahd we have pleasure in returning our most sincere) thanks to our numerous patrons in this and other parts of the colony for the liberal support they have «ccordPd us. We desire also „to thank our contemporaries for their kindly notices and expressions of good, will towards, us. We received some of these from! papers diametrically opposed to us in; politics, and this confirms the opinion long held byus that the newspaperpress of New Zealand, however much they may differ in their political. opinions, have after all but one object in view, which is the welfare of the colony as a whole. We heartily wish one and all A Hamii Nbw Yeab.