DOMINION ITEMS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 31 August 1908, Page 7

DOMINION ITEMS.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 28. xhe shipment of chaff purchased at New Plymouth by tho Agricultural Department because it was found to be 1 infected with Californian thistle, has. been solsLicr - pse itidder fo.*f •y-tfRTi horses whicirilie British-India steamer ! Laura (now in Wellington) will* take ' from Queensland to Calcutta. Tho \ shipment cost the Department £500. CHRISTCHURCH, August 29. The Canterbury Master Butchers' Association resolved ta increase the rctuil price of beef one penny per pound from September Ist The advanced price of fat cattle is given as the reason foi the inciease.' DUNEDIN, August 29. As the outcome of the recent Morn— *'higtdiiOSchbol-*'H,rm.ible,- Mr -7 Davidson/ thjp headmaster, fs J issningv a' wiit for* £' rioo against 1 one of "the parties who v ha<? been assailing him in the Press. Tbo special-committee set up to deal with the salaries of tho Dunedin Corporation staff recommend increases totalling £375 per year. Tho principal officers to receive- increases are Messrs McCurdio (assistant city engineer) and I Alexander (tramways manager). A meeting of working men in Dunedin South, convened by circular, to so-: 1 lect a candidate, was thinly attended. Mr Steve Boieham the well known labourers' advocate, submitted a' resolu-^ turn denouncing Mr Justice Sim as an'unsafe person to occupy any judicial position. Mr Boreham, who acted as chairman, asked the meeting to decide whether he should put tho resoliition to the vote, but there was not a single respr.r.ro on either side of that proposition, which was consequently dropped. FEILDING, August.9. The Feildinc branch of the Farmers' Union yesterday appointed Mr J. R... Perry as. the new secretary for tho branch and also as agent for the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance in this district. The branch also decided to support the proposal to o-rant volunteers free pass on the lailways for a fortnight yearly in lieu of payment for attendance at camp.