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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 293, 4 November 1875, Page 2

The Chronicle baa it on tba test authority that Joseph Giles, Esq., who baa for many years past occupied a responsible position as Warden oa ihe Weat Coast Goldfields Vill shortly ba appointed to the office of E.M. and District Judge for Wanganui, for which positions Mr Giles' experience and attainments thoroughly qualify him. Tha Standard says that the Hon. G. M. Waterhouse has again presented the half of bis honorarium, amounting to £45 15$ lOd, Io the Wairarapa Institute, Greytown, for tha purchase of new books. The other moiety, we understand, will be presented to the Maaterton Institute. \ ', At tbe ennual meeting of tbe We lliogton Caledooiaj Society, held lasfi week, tbe President stated that there was a deficiency of £63, which was caused in three ways : Ist, by the wet weather, and the consequent falling off in tbe public 'attendance at the hsfi New Year's sports; 2nd, by the default by the purchaser at auction of one of the booths; and 3rd, by tha failure of tbe late Secretary to account for some £16 which he bad received, he having allowed his accounts to get into a most complete and incomprebecsible muddle. The Secretary had left the place, and bad taken faost of the Society's books (including the minutebook) with him, thus only an approximate statement could be made by the Treasurer. Many persons have doubted the existence in (bis province of a man, who is IS6 years of age, but there is nothing more certain, aa is proved by the particulars obtained by the census collectors. His name 13 Felix Rojas, and he wae born in 1740, and under the Spaniards held (be position of sergeant-major in a Hoe regiment When Carina 111. jesued tbe celebrated order to eapel the Jesuits, Rojas took in charge two members of the "order and carried them from Linares to Santiago. This venerable man remembers with great clearness all tbe events of those times, end to converse with him about Chile is to listen to the miouge hiatoryof nearly a century and a half. He passes our printing office every dav in a portable obair which is carried by two servants, and our readers can see bim whenever they plaase in his place at the church, hearing mm*— Tuloa. Vfule, QginivHi