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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1510, 7 February 1901, Page 21

A lady, signing herself “A Wellwisher,’' • writes suggesting means ; -by which a permanent and appropriate memorial of the late Queen Victoria could be erected in Wellington. This can be done, in her opinion, by making the pror posed Home for Incurables a memorial one. Her idea is that the various school committees in the city and district of Wellington should allow the circulation of cards for penny subscriptions through the school authorities to the various pupils. By this means a large amount might be collected; at the same time it would impart a. spirit of sympathy for ethers among the young of this colony. It is to be hoped, she concludes, that the Bazaar Committee will see its way to call not only a general committee meeting, but to invite the public to interest themselves in this matter. The Christchurch “Press” says that there are men of our contingents who have been back from South Africa for weeks, and are still unable to get employment because they have not yet received their discharges. What* is worse, they have not yet been given the back pay due to them, and some arc. consequently penniless. Without money though as much as £SO is due to some, and without the power of getting work* more than one returned Christchurch man has had, to apply to the Mayor torelieve his immediate necessities