WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11954, 1 May 1902, Page 6

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

[BY TELEGRAPH".—-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Wednesday. THE HON. C. H. MILLS. The Hon. C. H. Mills left for Picton and Blenheim to-day, and will address his constituents in both towns before his return to Wellington. NEW POSTAL REGULATION. A new Post Office regulation prohibits postal packets having on them any word or words of an objectionable character. In the term "objectionable character" is included the word " debt" or any word or words indicating that the postal packet relates to a debt or liability foi money. All such postal packets will be detained and sent to the dead letter office, to be there dealt with as undelivered. A MEDICAL MISSIONARY. _ There is at present in Wellington Dr. Staloy, a woman medical missionary of the Cambridge (Anglican) Mission at Delhi. Dr. Staley gave an address last night on "Medical Missionary Work Amongst the Women of India." She dealt with the evils of the system of purdah, or seclusion (often another name for cruel neglect) and the life-long misery of the Hindu widows, often mere children, and the lives of fear from witchcraft and other evils, very real to them, which (he women live. To combat these evils the women medical missionaries are especially adapted, as they can go where the ordinary teachers are never allowed to go. The greatest power, however, for persuading and helping the ignorant and unhappy is by means of the native women converts to Christianity, who previously were themselves in a like condition. LOAN PROPOSALS. The Ratepayers' Association, a body which does not exercise any appreciable influence in the affairs of the city, but occupies a certain proportion of space in the newspapers, has resolved to oppose the loan proposed by tVe City Council for extending the water supply of Wellington. The association recently supported heartily the proposals for a town hall, for the electric tramways, and for wood-paving, but now resists a much more urgent scheme than any of these. The chairman of the association declares that before the high levels of Greater Wellington can be supplied with water it will be necessary to construct a special dam at Karori. and that j the scheme will eventually cost £300,000. -The association has determined to organise with the object of defeating the poll, and the trial of strength should prove an interesting one.

A meeting of members of the Paruell Ping-Rong Club will bo held this evening in St. Mary's Parish Hall.