GENERAL NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 20 March 1909, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

I'EB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, March 19. At the Supremo Court William Boult, charged with receiving stolon cattle at Hunanga, wus found not guiltv and discharged. .NELSON, March I'J.

The. collection to endow ;i bed in the hospital to the memory of the brave stewardesses of the. Penguin is being liberally responded to. ' Owing to the applications from the Tourist Department to provide facilities for visiting sportsmen after deer, •■•tc., the Acclimatisation Society has arranged to hoop a register of qualified guides «'ho will conduct sporting tours in likely country at a moderate cost. Some of the visitors thus catered for have thoroughly enjoyed the trip and ■have secured good spoil.

At a meeting of the City Council to-night, a proposal was brought down to raise a. loan of £200,000 in London for the purpose of funding the present indebtedness of the. City, and placing the linnnccs on n satiifactory footing. Consideration was deferred -to n special meeting on the 30lh inst. WELLINGTON, March lib At the Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention to-day the corresponding secretary's report was adopted. During the year nine new branches had been organised, and the membership has increased from 1510 to over J 7(1(10 exclusive of Maori members. The tiniineial report, which was adopted, showed receipts during the year to be C1(53 and expenditure CHI. The sum of Clilol lias passed through the hands of the local unions. CMKISTCUI'IK'H, March 10. As the outcome of a deputation which waited on the Prime Minister yesterday, Mr W. 11. Hugger, officer in charge of the Labor Bureau here, has received instructions to accept payment of arrears of fines due by the slaughtermen in respect to tho strike two or three years ago, in (our instalments, the amounts to be paid direct to the Labor "Department's representatives. The. instructions apple to the men at Belfast and Kairlicld. as we,!l as to those at Islington. FF.ILDING, March l'J. At a meeting of the Farmers' t.;niou here to-day, great indignation was expressed at the shortage of haulage to take' away fat lambs. Jt was stated that in every case where trucks were ordered there was delay in getting (hem away, and consequent depreciation in the value of Mock. Mr I). H. Guthrie M.P. for Orouii. was asked to send the following telegram to tho Minister of Railways:—"l beg to point out the injustice being done to the Feilding district, through the want of facilities for the transport of fat stock."