PROVINCIAL NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 4 June 1908, Page 8

PROVINCIAL NEWS.

(FROM OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.) ..' _ . V \ PALMERSTON. . A meeting was held last night, Mr. H. D.. Buchanan presiding, for. the'purpose of forming a Hunt Club in-Palmerstoil.- Mr.. J. A. Mitchell explained that surrounding landowners had consented to allow their pro--perty to .be hunted! over, and lie had secured a list of twenty-five members, and many more had promised. The master of tho Woodlands Hunt Club, Mr! J. Sweeney, had consented to visit Palmerston with the hounds. It was resolved to form a branch of ttie\Woodlands Hunt Club. The balancesheet of the Woodlands Club was-read, showing a cash balance of • £22, and assets amounting to £99.

FEATHERSTON.' " The death occurred on Monday niglifc of Mr. Solomon O'Donovan, chemist, after a brief ilLaess, from aggravated ; influenza. Doceased was seventy years old, and was a. native of Ireland.' Ho had only been fivo years in the Dominion, , and leaves a widow and grown-up family ,of four, including one son". A number of new books have just been added to the. shelves of the Featherston Library.

A curious fish specimen was hooked the oth-er ■ day by Mr. H. Butterficld, boatswain on the Bluff Harbour Board launch, says tho "Otago Daily Times." It baffled the in- . genuity of \ the best. authority in the place, and was sent on for manipulation by the curator of .the Museum, Duncdin. The reply • made is that it is. a rather fino-. specimen of ; tho butterfly fish, and that, although not unknown in New Zealand waters,-it is sufficiently rare to make it a welcome'addition to tho exhibits. • Writing editorially, tho Wairarapa "Daily Times" says:—"The most 'ardent Labourite, must experience a sense of disappointment at tho results of the' Labour-legislation of the past fifteen or sixteen years. During all; that time Parliament, and the «*ioh is its humble servant have persistently j striven to disturb tho relations' between . and Capital. It has held up tho"latt«r'to scorn- and oontumely. It has donovvits utmost to mako Labour discontented, and it has propagated the false doctrine thfl.b .La-bour-is master of tho situation, and Capital is necessarily its enemy. ' The results aro oertainly not encouraging. In the. first; ljjiuje, thoNS has come a disinclination for work-, 9!} d a. ridiculous multiplication of holidays ;*aijd an entirely false position has as bek<. tween employer and employes. With W®" 1 ! plea of securing for Labour the rights ft'diii' not 6njoy, tho Government has inflicted SHt'cl 8; wrongs upon enterprise and industry. |Anli' , . u it his failedimiserably in its.efforts. 4%>' Courts which-it set up in the interests-,"of ' the workers are a monument of dismal fafe are. Tho law is' inoperative, and judicial decisions are ignored and cannot be enforced, In tho meantime,' strikes and aro much more common than over before, aftd'-jv employers and employed no longer work htij- • moniously together, but watch each' othwr , .with suspicion. And tho Unions, that wcro , to mako for peace and goodwill, arc tho grossest tyrants. Tlwro is not in all the. social fabric a more tyrannous and rolentess body than a Trades and Laljur Council. There is at present no motor-cab on the streets which will-carry-three or four people and a fair amount of luggage as well, as tho four-wheeler 'doe's.' One that will meet the requirements of railway station traffic, therefore, has yet to como. —"Field."