NEW ENGLAND FUNDS TRUST I
                                     
                      New England Star Advisers Fund
                                     
                               (the "Fund")

                   Supplement dated November 17, 1995 to
             New England Star Advisers Fund Class Y Prospectus
               dated May 1, 1995 as Revised October 2, 1995
                                     
The following paragraphs are added to the section of the Prospectus captioned
"Fund Management":

     Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P. ("Loomis Sayles"), one of the Fund's
     subadvisers, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of New England Investment
     Companies, L.P. ("NEIC").  NEIC serves as investment adviser to the
     Fund.  New England Mutual Life Insurance Company ("The New England")
     owns NEIC's sole general partner and a majority of the limited
     partnership interest in NEIC.  The New England and Metropolitan Life
     Insurance Company ("MetLife") have entered into an agreement to merge,
     with MetLife to be the survivor of the merger.  The merger is
     conditioned upon, among other things, approval by the policyholders of
     The New England and MetLife and receipt of certain regulatory
     approvals.  The merger is not expected to occur until after December
     31, 1995.
     
     The merger of The New England into MetLife is being treated for
     purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act"), as an
     "assignment" of the existing investment advisory agreement between
     NEIC and the Fund and the related subadvisory agreement between NEIC
     and Loomis Sayles.  Under the Act, such an "assignment" will result in
     the automatic termination of those agreements, effective at the time
     of the merger.  The subadvisory agreements with the Fund's three
     subadvisers other than Loomis Sayles provide that they will terminate
     automatically upon any termination of the investment advisory
     agreement between the Fund and NEIC.  Those subadvisory agreements
     will thus also terminate at the time of the merger.  Prior to the
     merger, shareholders of the Fund will be asked to approve a new
     investment advisory agreement and new subadvisory agreements, intended
     to take effect at the time of the merger.  A proxy statement
     describing the new agreements will be sent to shareholders of the Fund
     prior to their being asked to vote on the new agreements.

The following paragraphs are added to the section of the Prospectus
captioned "Ways to Buy Fund Shares":

     Investment checks should be made payable to New England Funds.

     New England Funds will accept second-party checks (up to $10,000) for
     investments into existing accounts only.  (A second-party check is a
     check made payable to a New England Funds shareholder which the
     shareholder has endorsed to New England Funds for deposit into an
     account registered to the shareholder.)
     
     New England Funds will NOT accept third-party checks, except certain
     third-party checks issued by other mutual fund companies, broker
     dealers or banks representing the transfer of retirement assets.  (A
     third-party check is a check made payable to a party which is not a
     New England Funds shareholder, but which has been ultimately endorsed
     to New England Funds for deposit into an account.)