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Hastings Standard, Issue 454, 19 October 1897, Page 2

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Wellington, This day. A mass meeting is to be held on Saturday next to invoke public sympathy and support for the engineers locked out at Home. The Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, Sir Robert Stout, and others have been asked to speak and a committee have been appointed to collect funds. In the first grade of drawing examination in the Wellington district 3082 candidates out of 4532 passed. At the annual meeting of the Cyclists Touring Club consideration of the new rules was adjourned till November 22nd. It was decided to register the club under the Unclassified Societies Act. The Charitable Aid Conference began labor with the consideration of a motion by Mr Everest, Nelson, to defray the cost of the hospitals and charitable institutions out of the Consolitated revenue. This was lost by 14 to 9. The system of out-door relief was next canvassed. Mr Booth, of Wellington, said he wanted legislation to get at men who deserted women. The amount spent in charitable aid was a disgrace to the colony. Mr Bollard, of Auckland, moved to abolish the out-door relief. The proposition is still being debated. Auckland, This day. Sailed, at 2 p.m.—Anglian, for the South. Passengers: Misses Duncan, Bright, Nation, Wallace, Beynon, Cornelius, Davy ; Mesdames, Nation, Brown, Marsden, Wilson, Tomlinson, Kensington and children ; Messrs Nation, Tomlinson, White, Greaves, Hicks, Edgar, Ward, Falvey (2), Ruck, Camineo, Kensington, Mclveay, Westerbrook, llou. Mr Townshend, and Sir Walter Buller. At the Police Court to-day seven young men were charged with intending to be present at a fight at the Catholic Institute Hall to-night. It was stated that the defendants had been advertised to compete in a sparring competition. The police considered this nothing short of prizefighting, and senior Sergeant Clark instanced the Forgie—Nicholson contest five years ago, where the former died from the blow he received. Defendants contended theirs was a scientific contest for points with the ordinary gloves, not prize-fight gloves. They were ordered tojfind recognisances of £lO each to keep the peace. Samuel Adams, storekeeper, Paeroa, was arrested on a charge of arson. Accused was recently bankrupt. In his sworn statement to the Official Assiguee he stated t"he accouut books were destroyed in the fire at his store also £2OO in notes which he kept in a lemon peel box. Wanganui, This day. At meeting of the W'omen'a Political League passed a resolution last evening requesting the Government, in view of the dissatisfaction of the administration of Charitable Aid by bodies composed entirely of men, when subsidising hospital and Charitable Aid Boards to reserve to themselves the right to appoint two women as members of each board, pending an alteration in the law making Boards directly elective by the people.