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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 105, 23 February 1893, Page 2

Tn* our correspondence column to-day | " Scribe" wants to know why the re- | ceiving letter box at the Feilding Public Library was closed. One ' reason given at the time was that there were so few letters posted that the expense, if any, was not justified. We made )>o remark nt tho time, although | we i£euvrn))y posted i» tbu saiil box j about a hundred letters and po>,t cards ; ! per month at the very least, and the ' box was consequently of great conve- I nience to us, because we had an idea that the building was about to be used ) for another purpose by the owners, | when the present tenants wonld haye j had brief notice to emit, and the postal otlicials were of the same opinion. We do not doubt that if the allegations of " Scribe" are correct that a third box, of the same class as that attached to Mr Carthew's verandah, could be placed on one of the posts close to the | Lib ary which, while being a convenience to the public generally as well as the business people in the immediate neighborhood, would not entail one farthing's expense on the Department.

Fhom the N.Z. Gazette of the 16th. instant, we learn that the arrivals and departures were as follows : - Arrivals -Adults : male, 2055 ; female, 99<; ; children : male, 210 ; female, 157; total pet-sons, 3118. Departures---Adults : male, 924 ; female, 540 ; children : nisle, 01 ; female, Go ; total 1593. This gives a balance in favor of the colony of 1*25, o£ wh'-m 1131 were male adults. The following were the places from whence the immigrants arrived : — United Kingdom, L' 7') ; N. H. Wales, 1311 ; Victoria, 1 J7i* j South

Australia, 4; Tasmania, IS2 ; other places, 74; total, 3418. Of the departures, 66 were for the United Kingdom ; for N.S. Wales, 808 ; Victoria, 522 jTasmania, 132; other places, 65 ; total, 1593. Of these 924 were male, and 540 female adults, the rest were children.