The Feilding Club was established in 1891. Up till the end of 1896 it was located in the Feilding Hotel, but it now occupies a nine-roomed building in Kimbolton Road, erected at a cost of £900. The Club has ninety-six members, the entrance fee and subscription for town members being five guineas, and country members three guineas. The secretary is Mr. H. L. Sherwill.

Feilding Masonic Lodge, No. 41 (Feilding), meets on the Monday nearest to full moon at 8 p.m. The installation takes place in July. The officers (1896) were:— W.M., Mr. Win. H. Hartgill; S.W., Mr. C. A. J. Levett; J. W., Mr. E. Goodbehere; and secretary, Mr. T. W. K. Foster.

M. U., I.O.O.F., meets on alternate Fridays in the Foresters Hall, Feilding. Mr. A. W. Parker is the secretary of the Lodge.

Court Loyal Feilding, No. 5768 (Feilding). Secretary, Mr. T. W. K. Foster.

The Feilding Athletic Club was established in 1875, and has held sports meetings every year since. The prize-money given in 1896 was £170, the principal event being the Manchester Handicap of £20. The sports, which generally number twenty-four events, are held on the Feilding Oval. The Club is managed by a committee of twenty, and Messrs. H. L. Sherwill and W. G. Haybittle are secretary and treasurer respectively. The Club refuses to allow intoxicating liquors to be sold or brought on the ground at any of its meetings.

The Feilding Bowling Club was established in 1895, and has sixty members. The Club's officers for 1896 are:– Messrs. W. A. L. Bailey (president), W. A. Sandilands (vice-president), H.L. Sherwill (secretary), E. Goodbehere (treasurer), P. Thomson, J. Maclaren, C. Bray sen., W. Dixon, W. G. Haybittle, J. Scott, W. Light, J. D. Yates, and A. R. Curtis (committee). Since its formation the Club has played several matches on its own green, all of which it won.

The Feilding Cricket Club is one of the oldest institutions in the town, and all the leading business men have at one time or another been actively associated with it. The membership stands at seventy, and is steadily increasing. Excellent facilities for a small town are possessed in the matter of grounds, and for these the Club is indebted to the president, Mr. F. Y. Lethbridge, M.H.R.

The Feilding Jockey Club has been in existence for several years, and its meetings are largely attended by the local and outside public. Officers (1896):–President, Mr. F. Y. Lethbridge, M.H.R.; secretary, Mr. E. Goodbehere; treasurer, Mr. E. J. Allen.

The Feilding Young Men and Boys' Club was established in 1896 in Glasgow House, Manchester Street, where seven rooms are rented. The Club is open every evening. Rooms are set apart for reading and amusements; and there is a well furnished gymnasium. There are 150 members, the subscription being one penny a week, though most pay half-a-crown a quarter. The Club is managed by Messrs. J. Greenwood (president), Rev. C. C. Harrison (secretary), H. Franklin (treasurer), and a committee of representative citizens. The promoters hope in time to establish a file band, cadet corps, savings bank, library, and various classes.

Moore, Samuel Spencer, Teacher of Music, “Wodonga,” Kimbolton Road, Feilding. Mr. Moore was born in Queensland in 1872, and was educated at Newington College, Sydney. After a few years of office life at Townsville, he came to New Zealand, and proceeded to Feilding, where he accepted the position of organist to the Wesleyan Church. As a teacher he has secured for himself a good connection, and is well patronised by the surrounding inhabitants, some of his pupils coming from a distance of several miles. Mr. Moore is an enthusiast in football playing for Feilding for three seasons. He is also a member of the local Cycling Club.

Mr. S. S. Moore.

The Feilding Star (George Kirton and Auguste Robert Curtis, proprietors), Manchester Street, Feilding. Telegraphic address, “Star, Feilding.” P.O. Box 15. Bankers, Colonial Bank of New Zealand. Private residences: Mr. Kirton, Derby Street; Mr. Curtis, Manchester Street. The Feilding Star was established in 1878, and is consequently in its seventeenth year of publication. The building is a substantial structure of wood and iron, and one story high, erected on a large freehold section having sixty-six feet frontage to Manchester Street, and 130 feet to Bowen Street. The floorage space afforded is equal to 1500 square feet. The plant includes a horizontal steam-engine of two-horsepower, which, with the steam boiler, were made by Mr. D. Muiray, of Wanganui. The printing machines, type, and appliances, are up-to-date in every respect, and include a large and complete jobbing plant. The Feilding Star is a daily paper, issued every afternoon at 3 o'clock. The size of the sheet is double royal measurement, being forty-two by twenty-seven. The paper circulates throughout the town and suburbs of Feilding, and Kiwitea, Oroua, Pohangina, and Manawatu counties, in which it has a large and extensive connection, and is well supported by advertisements. In politics the Star is Conservative.