WELLINGTON NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 534, 30 September 1902, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS

TROOPERS WANT STATE ASSISTANCE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night, A deputation consisting of officers and men of returned contingents, waited on the Minister of Lauds to-day to urge that something should he done to enable them to carry out their wishes in that direction. The special inducements that arc field out to settle in South Africa were brought under the notice of the Minister, who was asked to do something at once. Mr Duncan, said that the question was too involved to give an answer to at once, 'but lie would give .a reply early next weekj FREE POSTAGE, Newspapers and magazines addressed to the light-house keepers on the New, Zealand coast will in future lie transmitted free of postage. A MENACE TO THE COUNTRY, On the police making an Application this morning to withdraw a charge against a woman who was alleged to he a brothel-keeper, on the ground that she had gone to another district, Me Haselden, S.M., said that lie thought the complaints made ‘in the country, districts about a, certain class of offenders being hunted from the cities into the country, where they -became a standing menace to peace, were quite justified, ft was not -right to send offenders away simply to get rid of them;