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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4782, 20 July 1876, Page 2

An advertisement in another column notifies the initiation of a movement that should have the warmest support of everyone in Wellington,. and should excite sympathy throughout the colony. His Worship the Mayor calls a public meeting for Monday next, in the Provincial Council Hall, at which the settlers of Wellington may decide upon the most proper manner in which the memory of the late Dr. Feathbrston may be perpetuated. In whatever the Wellington people may resolve upon in regard to . this matter,-they will have, as we said, the sympathy of the rest of the, colony;, but at the same time it will be the duty of the meeting to remember that whilst Dr. Feathbrston died, as he had largely lived, in the public service of the colony, to which and to the interests of which he never hesitated to devote his best energies and his most strenuous exertions, he was yet, so far as Wellington and the province named after it are concerned, a thoroughly representative man. And as a representative man he held the untiring confidence of the Wellington people. From out the storms and turmoil of more than one Superintendental contest, Dr. Feathbrston emerged as the man chosen to guide the destinies of the province, and no one can deny that so far as in him lay Dr. Feathbrston strove for the interests of the province with a singleness of purpose and a desire to serve those over whom he had been elected to preside, that was beyond praise, as it should now be above censure. It is at present too early to indicate what form the testimony of the people of Wellington to the worth of Dr. Feathbrston should take. At this moment it would be premature to suggest, and indeed to suggest might bear the appearance of dictation, but it may be said that whatever form the people of Wellington may decide upon in order to make remembrance of Dr. Featherston a recognised fact amongst us, that form should be worthy of the man in whose honor it is made, and of the people who make it.