Correspondence.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 277, 2 April 1894, Page 2

Correspondence.

MABCH WEATHER, 1894.

TO THE KDITOH OF THK STAR Sib,— The total rainfall for this month was 1*75 inches, of which 1.29 inches fell during the last four days of the month. The heaviest fall in one day of 24 hours was 80 hundredths of an inch, registered on the morning of the 28th, and rain was registered on nine days during the month. The maximum temperature was 84 degrees, on the 17th, and the mean maximum temperature for the month was 73"74 degrees. \ The lowest temperature was 34 degrees, 1 registered on the 21st. I I am, etc., Samuel Goodbehere. Feildiug, Ist April, 1894. STREET IDLERS. TO THE KDITOR OF THE STAR. Sir,— ln addition to a plentiful influx of " occasional " and street corner graduates of more tender age, we have in Feilding several resident " professionals" whose lives arc passed in lounging at hotel corners on mild days, and in the billiard rooms when the weather is unkind to the worker. These men have families more or less numerous and delicate, the wife in each case spending her unhappy dependent life between gaining a scanty crust for the little ones and thus doing the work of their lazy husbands, whose very infrequent turns of work just serve to keep them in tobacco and an occasional beer. There are also four or five others who by association with these " regulars " are fast qualifying themselves ffor a similar title. What a pity there is no punishment for these selfish brutes other than the contempt of the industrious and the silent but too ineffectual appeal of suffering wives and children. On behalf of these suffering ones I direct especial attention and scorn of all decent folk to these loafers and their apt pupils. I am, etc., Reformer.