FEILDING D.H.S. COMMITTEE AND WANGANUI MATTERS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 9 October 1912, Page 6

FEILDING D.H.S. COMMITTEE AND WANGANUI MATTERS.

AN ASSAULT ON A. TRAIN I PASSENGER. i

A FARRIER INJURED

ANOTHER FORESTERS' LODGE

"THE MESSIAH."

(By Telegraph.)

FEiLDING. Oct. 8. The Feilding District High School considered two applications from Wanganui last fright. The first was from the School Committee Association regretting that the committee had decided to withdraw from the Association, and asking for a reconsideration of the matter. Xo action was taken the letter being formally received. The other letter wiis from the Wanganui Agricultural and Pastoral Association, asking tlio committee to grant -a school holiday on November 14, People's Day of the Wanganui Show. The committee decided that it could not agree to the re<iuest. Tiii-s morning, when tho PahnerstonWfingcUiiii train was on its Avay to Feildinu;, a second class passenger named Leonard Morrison became abusive and commenced fighting another second class passenger who >is a well-known and resp; etablo resident of Marton. Tho latlv-r ajjij'irentl}' gave no reason whatever for tho assault, and upon tho arrival ef tho train at Feildina, the guard had Morrison arrested. The case will bo-bcar-d to-uvirrow.

A farrier named 11. Wills, employed by i]cs:i\s James and Co., met with a painful accident yesterday. He was engaged shoeing a horse, when it .suddenly roared, and kicking out,with its fore f<et, hit Wills over the region of the- li-cart, splintering a xib.

A new 1.0.0. F. lodge (American Constitution) was formed at Feilding last night with 2") incMf.'vrs. ilk> v. ;::ie 'if the lodge being called Kiwitoa. The opining ceremony will take place on Tncsdav next.

At the weekly practice of the Choral S:K'iety last night, the conductor annouiK'ed that the follow ing well-known vocalists hud been engaged for the coming production of "The Messiah": Soprano, 31>.s Muriel Bennett, of Wellington ; eo:Ui-'to. Mrs B. Basham (nee Miss Daisy Taylor, of Kltham); tenor, ]V!r Sidney Builrr. of Wanganui; bass, Mr Hamilton Hodges, of Wellington.