THE ELECTORAL ROLL.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1457, 9 June 1902, Page 2

THE ELECTORAL ROLL.

As the general election is now near at hand, we strongly urge on every duly qualified person to make enquiries with all despatch at the office of the Returning Officer, and learn whether they are on the electoral roll of the district in which they reside, or on any electoral roll at all. It is needless for us to remind those electors who did not exercise the franchise at the last election that their names were, as a matter of course, struck out, but there are others who have become disfranchised by the fact of changing their abodes, that is, persons who claim to vote under tbe residential qualification, have moved into another electoral district, although they may have only changed their domicile by a few chains. Instances of the latter have recently been brought under our notice where property owners, or residents, in the Borough, have built new houses in the suburbs, removed into them — and out of their own proper electorate. There is no excuse for any delay. Everyone qualified should see into this matter for himself or herself, because in one respect it is entirely of personal interest.

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS To-morrow will be the tenth annivarsary of the great volcanic eruption at Tarawera. Ladies are being enrolled strongly in the Wairntopa as honorary members ot the Farmers' UnioD. A sitting of the Bankruptcy Coorfc wMI be held in Palmerston on Wednes day, the 11th ih.taut. - Art old age pensioner named Richard Hickson, died at the Palmerston hos pital on Saturday afternoon. The adjourned meeting of the Directors of the FeildiDg Permanent Build ing Society was held this afternoon. The Wauganui bridge i 9 reported to be shaky. A Government engineer wiU be aeked to report upon its condition. Mr Justin McCarthy asks, in the Daily Mail, " Where will be the new field of romance ?" Perhaps Dr L.eyds could answer this question. A preliminary notice with regard to an unreserved sale of stock on account of Mr Joughin. at Stan way, is inserted by Mr Morshead to-day. The quantity of gold entered for export from New Zealand last month was 48,157 oz, valaed at £186,982, against 36,457 oz, valued at £143,393 for the corresponding month of last year. We wish to remind the public of the meeting to be held in the Council Chambers at 8 p.m.. this evening in connection with the Coronation celebrations. Mr Nisbet Thomson, of Johnstone, the oldest ex-provost in Scotland, has recently died in hie 92nd year. He was elected senior magistrate of the burgh in 1861. Mr V Morpby has been appointed secretary to the Manchester Brass Band. As a result of public patronage during the last fortnight the band has been enabled to procure a slide trombone. The most widely separated points between which a telegram can be cent are British Columbia and New Zealand. A telegram from one to the other would traverse over twenty thousand miles in doing so. It has been settled that by Rojal warrant the Moderator of a General Assembly of any Presbyterian Church is to be Btyled " Eight Reverend," in the same way as a Bishop of the Established Church of England. The nnmber of workmen in the employ of the late Mr James Dick, of Glasgow, who bern fit under his wiil is between 800 and 900. Beside* the gifts to hU workmen, he left over £80.000 to the infirmaries and >otner charities of the city. At a meeting of Roman Catholic Peers recently held at the Westminster Palace Hotel it was unanimously decided to continue the agitation for the abolition of the King's declaration against the Mass and the worship of the Virgin Mary. The settlera in W&iiuna West pro pose to meet on Wednesday next in order arrange for sports, etc,, on Coronation day. It is proposed that the programme will consist of a picnic, sports, and a concert, to wind up with a dauce in the evening. Well done, Waituna. At the meeting of the Farmers 1 Union held in in Palmerston last Saturday it was announced that the Colonial Conference, being delegates from each province throughout the colony, had decided to meet in Wellington on July 2nd, when matters of importance to the Union generally will be dealt with. The Rev Ivei Farrar, son of Br Farrar, Dean of Canterbury, has in~ berited his father's remarkable gift as a preacher. He is at present a enrate at St Michael's Chester Square, London and his course of address on John Wickliffe and other reformers and Church leaders of past ages, has been a notable feature daring Lent. After itbe dinner adjournment of the Licensing Committee at Martou on on Saturday one of the members iuti mated that he could not sit any longer There was consequently no quorum and the Bongotea application was adjurned until the 13th instant. All the petitions for and against the application, were rejected by the Committee, as being informal. A Wesleyan minister, Professor Beet, D.D., has attempted to disprove the immortality of'the soul. This has just been replied to by another Wesleyan minister, Professor Banks, in a little pamphlet entitled '• Word on Immortality." Both ministers are professors in tbo Theological Colleges, where men are trained for the Wesleyan ministry Dr Beet being professor of systematic Theology at Richmond Theological College, near London, and Professor Banks being professor of Systematic Theology at, Headingley Theological College, near Leeds. A rather serious accident occurred at Rongotea on Friday last when Mr and Mrs B. Hansom's boy, aged one year and ten months, wa9 kicked by ahorse. It appears that Mrs Freeman, the child's grandmother, had just returned from the township with him, when a horse, which had been grazing on the roadside rushed forward to get into the paddock, and in the attempt to do so, jumped over the go cart in which the child was seated, striking him on the forehead, i'be skull was split, and after medical attendance, the child was taken to the Palmerston North Hos pital, but little hope is entertained for bis recovery. Probably no class people suffer more with rheumatism then farmers, and yet the remedy for this dreadful disease is, or should be right at hand, If celery were eaten freely, sufferers from rheumatism would be comparatively few. It is a mistaken idea that cold and damp produce the disease ; they simply develop it. Acid in the blo:d is the primary and sustaining cause. If celery is eaten largely, an alka'ine blood is the result, and where this exists there be neither rheumatism nor goat. It should be eaten cooked. Cut into bits and boil till soft in as little water as possible. Add to this half as much milk as there is water in the celery, thicken with flour and season with butter, pepper, and salt.