The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1895. DEATH OF GENERAL FEILDING.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 263, 10 May 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1895. DEATH OF GENERAL FEILDING.

-♦ The news of the death of General Feilding, which reached us yesterday, has been received with pro found and general regret. It is but a few months ago that he was amongst us in the full vigor of health and strength, hnppy in the knowledge that this settlement had proved to be a brilliant success, the land occupied by an energetic and thriving population whose prosperity would compare favorably with that of any other in the colony, with the town of Feilding (named after the General— one ot the founders of the Emigrant and Colonists' Emigration Scheme)— which had grown since his previous visit from a bush hamlet lo a prosperous Borough town. He was full of bright hope and confidence in his power to still further help it in the neat future— now he lies dead in an almost unknown country far from his friends and England — the land ho loved so well— and which he had served so nobly as a gallant soldier. It is within our knowledge that he, in liis positiDn as Chairman of Directors of the Colonists' 'Land and Loan Corporation, intended to do much to advance the material interests of* the settlers on the block, and especially those of the residents of Feilding, and we are quite certain from personal and other information that had he been spared his ideas woula have heen carried into practical effect. 'lhe original settlers who were associated in the early days with General Feilding in the great work of colonisation, as well as those who have more recently taken un the good work he began, will regret the loss cf a prudent counsellor, and a kind Iriend. Thoso who had formerly served in the army, and came out under the auspices of the Corporation, will always remember him as a good soldier and kind sympathiser, who understood their ways and modes of thought and could advise and help them in a way only to be learned by those who follow the profession of arms. Kindly in manner, generous in his actions, prompt and courteous, General Feilding possessed and exorcised all those qualities which go to make a perfect English gentleman— the highest type of a man. We and every otlier resident sympathise deeply with Mrs Feilding in her bereavement, and the loss of her kind and affectionate husband.