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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4015, 15 June 1920, Page 2

. Uiomas Percy Dare, aged 23, is bemg tried at "Auckland Aformanslaugh-' ter. Dare AA.as the driver of a motor car Avhich collided Avith Arthur Hor.ton, who ivas riding a-bicycle, and killed' him. A start lias been made with tivo of the Avorekers' divellinge 'of the' eight authorised by the Government for erection in, Feilding. These tivo are to bo situated in Russell street. They will be built in concrete, with dual Avails, a cavity Avail to prevent any dampness getting " into the interior of the building. Mr Pearse is the contractor, A most distressing occurrence, ending fatally, happened at Stanway on Sunday, ivlien the second daughter of Mr and Mrs U. B. Miles, Margaret Hellen, aged three years and eleven months, by failing into some hot w*ater, was severely scalded. Despite / the best medical attention, the little one died at a late hour last night from the shock. It ivas quite an accidental mishap. Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved family. Among the exhibits made by soldier hospital patients for the forthcoining Palmerston Winter Show be a quantity of tweed woven at the King George V. Military Hospital, Rolorua. The cloth, is the Avork of I'rivs. Burton and Dickenson, avlio I have become A-ery proficient in this work, rfnd intend taking it up permanently on their <ljschar_g© from (hospital. Priv. Burton is unable to carry on bis pro-wa.r occupation through contracting paralysis in the legs as the result of a gunshot Avound in the bead. Quite a number of residents ivell advanced in years have died since the setting in of, the cold wot ivoa,tJier. The deaths of three people all over 80 are reported from Auckland. One lady, Mrs Sarah Cosltr, Avidmv of the lute John Costar, died at St. Hellie.r's Bay on the 12th inst, aged 95, Mrs Christina Christian', avlio' dieil on the same date at Dev-onport, ivas in her 85th year, and Mr William Hildrcth, whose death took place yesterday at* Henderson, was- 84. ,