CANTERBURY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2400, 1 March 1900, Page 21

CANTERBURY.

At a meeting of the New Zealand Branch, of the British Medical Association on the 2Jst^ it .was resotod to take the necessary

st.eps for the formation of a branch of fciv National Association for the Prevention o£ Consumption and Tuberculosis. * ( A case affecting the power of the ArbiJ tration Courfc in respect to the plumber^ and gasfitters' dispute came before the] Supreme Court on the 21st, Messrs Tayloi; an,d ( : akley applying for a writ of prohibit tion to prevent his Honor Mr Justice Ed* wards and members of the Arbitration Courf from proceeding to making an award in s» far as it related to preference of employ* ment being given to unionists. The matte? having been argued at considerable length, Mr Justice Demriston reserved judgment. Reports which hare reached the secretary of the Canterbury A. and P. Association state that the Hessian fly is spreading ia the Southbridge district. The Ministering Children's League has erected a convalescent cottage at New; Brighton for children whose parents cannot afford to send them to the seaside. The cottage will provide accommodation fov eight children, and will be opened by the Bishop of Chxistchurch next week.