WELLINGTON. February 26.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 6976, 27 February 1890, Page 2

WELLINGTON. February 26.

The police have received information from Carterton that a child, aged eight yean, a daughter of W. H. King, was playing in the stubble of a paddock which was on fire, when her clothing caught fire, and she was dreadfully burned before assistance ceuld arrive. The Boilermakers' Union rote LlO to the locked out employees of the Wellington Woollen Company, and has made a levy of Is per week per member towards a permanent relief fund. They also decide to refrain from purchasing any goods of the company's manufacture. The local branch of the New Zealand Federated Bootmakers' Union subscribed LlO to the same cause, with a promise of further assistance if required. Ministers of the Gospel and prominent | citizens are taking the part of the Early Closing Association, and the ladies of the oity are being appealed to to assist the movement by making their purchases before 5 p.m. on Saturdays and 0 p.m. all other week days. The little girl Kins, whose olothes caught fire in a stubble field at Carterton yesterday, has succumbed to her injuries. The office of Commissioner under the Native Lands Act of last session has been offered to, and will probably be accepted by Mr W. B. Edwards, of the legal firm of Moorhouse and Edwards in this city. The Commissioner will hare all the powers of a Supreme Court Judge, and will probably fill the first vacancy on the Supreme Uoort bench, when his work as a Commissioner is completed. The work on hand may take some years to get through, but the Government has thought it advisable that the post of Commissioner should be ocourisd by * jfenoii w^fao ka* tie itafdirfg 01 » Btifitm Cdqrl Jtfdfe.