WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIX, Issue 13121, 8 May 1903, Page 6

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

[FeOSI Or/It COERESrONDENT.] WELLINGTON, May 7.

Petty burglaries aro beginning to be troublesome in the city, 'i'hey arc new a more important event than the " big gooseberry " of the silly season. What a trustful people wo a>re> may be judged 1 from the fact tlbat people are now being warned frantically to lock their doors. The following resolution was passed! at the last meeting of the Wellington Wharf Labourers' Union: —"That, whereas the Conciliation and Arbitration Act places upon the unions o'f workers of each trade and -calling the responsibility of acting as the legal representative of all the workers engaged in sardh trade or ; calling, it is therefore necessary that the Act should be so amended as to provide that special protection shall be given to those workers who become members of such industrial unions."

The Shakespeare Society, which was introduced on Tuesday by thoughtful speeches from the Chief Justice, the Registrar of the University, Dr Findla.y, and others, is so well started that no mora members can be taken.

The following letter, from South Africa,, will be of interest to many of your readers : —" To the Premier of New Zealand:, Wellington. Pretoria, April 6, 1903. Sir,— I have the honour to inform you that tenders are being called for the supply of; bread and forage .to the troops for certain stations in the Cape Colony, and for bread,, forage and groceries for all stations in tho Transvaal and Orange River Colony, for a period of six months, commencing on Oct., 1 next. I enclose ten forms of tender for each colony, for distribution to any applicants that there may be. Would you kindly send me a list, giving the names and addresses of those, to whom forms have 'been issued. Please have the proposed forrra of advertisement inserted in the leading papers and forward the account with a copy of the advertisement from the paper to mo for payment. A blank space has been left for you to fill in the name and address from whom form of tender can be obtained. Should there n>t be any tenderers in New 1 Zealand for bread. I propose to send you the names and addresses of the successful tenderers here, so that merchants in New Zealand uvay have an opportunity of oflerinsr their flour to the accepted contractor in South Africa.*-1 havo tho honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, W. G. Lyttelton, "Lieutenant-General Commanding tho Forces in South Africa." Unfortunately, tho ten forms of tenders herein alluded "to wero not. enclosed. The Premier has cabled to General Lyttelton to that effect, and, presuming that the Commonwealth Premier has been more fortunate, has cabled to him for copies. Regarding the Premier's request of_ last October for a suitable vessel for a training ship, there is no need for the impatience experienced in certain quarters on the subject. The reply of the Lords of the Admiraltv, I am in a position to'state, while regretting that at present no vessel on the Australasian Squadron is available, definitely promised that one of the vessels of the Lizard class would bo made over at the expiration of the present commission, towards the end of the present year.