GENERAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7949, 26 January 1906, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

LONDON, January 24. The price iof best Cardiff coal since December has advanced 2s per tou. ARMY STABLES DESTROYED. Received January 25, 11.28 p.m. LONDON, January 25. " The Army stables, at Willesden, have been burnt down. Seventyeight horses were killed. Two hundred iioraea liberated from tbe stables stampeded, killing a pedestrian. TRADE UNION FUNDS. Received January 25, 11.28 p.m. LONDON, January 25. The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has infjrmed tho Fife Miners' Association that he favoured the complete protection of the Trade Union Fund from the liabilities resulting from the judicial application of the law. A Conspiracy Agency Bill will be introduced next session. CONTINGENTERS' CLAIMS. Received January"26, 1.16 a.m. SYDNEY, January 25. The Royal Commission, appointed to inquire into the claims of members of New South Wales' contingents, who served in South Africa, for Imperial in addition to full looa! pay, find generally in favour of the claimants. A NEW JUDGE. Received January 26, 1.4 a.m. LONDON, January 25. Mr Fletcher Moulton, K.C., succeeds Mr Justice Mathew, who has resigned. (Mr John Fletcher Moulton has represented the Launceston Division of Cornwall, in the Liberal interest, since 1889, He was born in 1844. Whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge he entered for various matbe matical examinations, and carried all before him. He was Senior Wrangler and First Smith's Prizeman, at Cambridge, in 1868: aud Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He resigned tho Fellowship and came to London in 1873. He became a barrister in 1874, and was Q.C. in 1885. He was M.P. for Clapham Division, 1885-86, and South Hackney, 1894-95. Ho was elected to tho Senate of the University of Loudon iu 1899 aud 1900}