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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 67, 20 March 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL The mails which left Auckland on the 14th February, per R.M.S. Marama,, arrived in London, via Vancouver, on the 19th inst.— three days late. The arrivals in New Zealand during February numbered 3717, as compared with 4075 for February, 1913; and the departures 3410, as against 2666. According to the Manawatu Standard, a requisition has been issued by a section of the Flaxworkers' Union for a special meeting on 28th March to consiaei' a proposal to cancel the union's affiliation with the Federation of Labour. At the Conciliation Council yesterday, formalities in connection with an agreement in the milk employees' dispute were completed. The priheipal points in the agreement, which is to operate for one year from Ist March, are :— Hours, 50 to 52 per week (Sundays and Wednesdays work 5 hours only) j wages, 50s per week to be the minimum ; overtime to be paid for all work in excess of 52 hours per week ; learners to be paid 5s per day the first week, afterwards full pay ; holidays : the usual holidays to be observed, and one week per _ annum on full pay ; preference to be given to members of the union, The Bishop of Wellington (Dr. Sprott) has written a pastoral letter to the churches of the diocese, drawing attention to the missionary exhibition to be held in Wellington in February next in connection with tho Marsden Centenary celebrations, and urging active and earnest interest in the scheme. It may be stated that the Town Hall has been engaged from 6th to 14th February, 1915, and arrangements have been made for a unique exhibition. Courts are to be set up _ representing the life, superstitions, history, and products of the natives of _ many parts of the world. Lectures will be given on the work of the Church missions. In all 415 cases were deal with by the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals during the past year. The cases were a-s follow :— Working lame horses 52, working horses with sore backs and shoulders 33, old and decrepit horses destroyed 41, undue severity in flogging 7, overloading 15, under-feeding, etc., 42, overdriving 4. under-feeding cattle 41, ill-treatnij» sheep 1, cruelty to bullocks 15, overcrowding poultry 35, dogs destroyed 7, cats destroyed 2, cruel•ly ill-treating dogs 10, overcrowding cockatoos 10, horses without shelter 3, diseased dogs 13. bullocks severely injured 111 transit (killed) 2, cattle emaciated and diseased (killed) 21, cruel method trapping opossums 1, underteeding calves 10, cruelly ill-treating pigs in transit 1, sundry cases enquired into 30, warnings 16. staiving goat 1, cruelty to ducks 2; total, 415. Kirkcaldie and Stains have jnsb received a, large assortment _ of ladies', gents', and children's felt slippers. The "Kozy " slipper for ladies, in six different shapes, 5s lid; camel hair, in numerous checks, at 5s 6d and 6s 6d ; black velvet slippers, leather soles, at . 6b Ud.-A.dvt