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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 45

A cable message received by the Minister for Marine announces that the Shipping and Seamen’s Act, passed by the New Zealand Parliament in 1903, received the assent of his Majesty the King by an Order-in-Oouncil of March 20th. The act is, therefore, now’ in operation.

A general meeting of the subscribers to the Hector Macdonald memorial was held in London on January 26th. w’lien it was stated that there w r as a balance of £450 at the credit of the London fund. It was resolved to hand the amount over to the Glasgow fund lor the erection of a national memorial to Sir Hector Macdonald at Dingwall. The total, amount subscribed in Scotland was stated to be about £I6OO, and it was hoped that the London fund would bo increased to £6OO--is a further sum of £2OO lying in bank at the Cape. Tlie chairman of the London meeting, Air S. Greenlees, stated that the memorial to he erected at Dingwall would bo- one of the finest things of the kind in Scotland. It would be after the style of .the Wallace monument near Stirling, and would be 100 ft high. There would he a caretakers house and a museum for the custody of trophies in connection with tlie deceased .vmiorui.