WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10654, 15 May 1895, Page 6

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

FPes Press Aesociaion.l WELLINGTON, May 14. The Premier left thia morning on a tour of the west coast of this island. The Tariff Commission haa obtained a farther extension of time until May 81. Mr J. W, Poyntoa, of Wellington, has been appointed Stipendiary Magistrate at Invercargill. [ef.oii oue own cobmspohdbkt.] Referring to the frozen meat_ trade, the morning papsr eays, in connection with the announcement that though the price of English mutton haa risen, butchers at Home have not attempted to sail colonial as English mes 4 “we read that tha agents in London havo discovered and proclaimed through the discovery, that not more than 5 per cent of imported frozen meat ia ever sold as English, and wa arc asked to believe that the absence of any rush for frozen meat, when tho pries of beat English mutton ia 7-JJ to 8d net ib and beat New Zealand Sid, tho difference between which prices ought, if there is a bad practice cn an extensive scale, to be a strong inducement to extend that bad practice, is fairly strong corroboration of the opinion of tho agents. It is, wo »ca aware, a general belief among producers that their woes are due in a large mea.su.ro to tho bad practice aforesaid, but if the report we have quoted is correct/there is a loss <sssy method for accounting for the downfall in the market. The fact producers have to face is that for. some reason tho trade in colonial mutton ia in a rotten state. The trade ia threatened with ruin for the lack of energy and freight and combination. A comprehensive schema is required on a great scale of reform. Tho Australians are keenly alive to tha fact aud are moving. There is a move being energetically made in New Zealand. The extraordinary thing is that while English prices show an increasing meat hunger colonial meats are not in demand. We know them to be good enough to satisfy any reasonable demand. Wo know enough, therefore, to insist upon energetic, drastic reform of the whole business of sale and distribution.” At a meeting of the Hospital Trustees to-day, the Chairman announced that the head nurses would ia future ba known aa " Sister,” with their Christian name following. It pleased them, he said, and would be°some thing for them to strive for. One of tho trustees said that he presumed the male attendants would be called “ Brother.” Tho Chairman said perhaps they might also call the doctor “Father” and tha matron “ Mother.”