WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11538, 24 November 1900, Page 5

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.

[BY TELEOEAPH.—OWN COItIIESPONDENT.] Wellington, Friday. ORDERS-IN-COUNCIL. It would appear as if the pressure upon local bodies is very great when they should ask for the issue of Orders-in-Council for the rectification of the errors and omissions they have made in the discharge of their legal functions. The Colonial Secretary replies in a circular letter that there is much misapprehension on this subject. Ministers, he says, can advise the Governor to exercise such remedial powers only when the matter is one properly calling for action, and then only upon a full statement of all the facts which render such action necessary, WHARF LABOURERS' UNION. The president of this union characterises the legislation of last session by which the unions are affected as a piece of bungling, calculated to act as a stumbling block to large unions in the conduct of their business. JUVENILE INSUBORDINATION. Mr. Justice Edwards, in summing up the evidence in one of the Stoke Orphanage cases, said : " The jury was aware that one of the great evils at the present time was the growing feeling of insubordination among the young, of which our criminal Courts afforded only too many instances. It v<as shocking sometimes to look at the calendar and see the numbci of persons charged with crimes who had New Zealand set down as their place of birth. This unfortunate fact, in his humble opinion, was very largely due to the fact that necessary discipline was no longer enforced as it should be, and that a spirit of insubordination was growing up among the young, which was dangerous to themselves and dangerous to the whole community. LAND FOR CLOSE SETTLEMENT. Mr. T. Teschmaker has offered to the Government 6000 acres of land at Otaio, South Canterbury, for close settlement. The Minister for Lands has visited the estate, and declares that it is very suitable. GAME BIRDS EXCHANGE. Mr. Bruce, ex-member for Rangitikei, draws attention to the great increase on the West Coast of the weka and the pukako. As many as 254 had been bagged in a day by the Maoris. Mr. Bruce suggests that some of these birds could be sent to the Calcutta Zoo, for an exchange of Indian birds in return.