WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 385, 9 April 1902, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS.

ALLEGED THEFT. By Telegraph—Pres3 Association. Wellington, last night. Thomas Connor was to-day committed for trial on a charge of theft of a purse containing £75 from a woman in the Basin Reserve. ARBITRATION COURT. The Arbitration Court to-day dismissed two separate charges brought against a butcher of having employed boys in contravention of the award. In one case the boy wtio foriuod the subject of the dispute had only gone for a ride in a cart belonging to defendant. HOSPITAL PATIENTS. For some timo past thero has beon friction between the Friendly Societies and the Wellington hospital trustees with regard to membors of lodges boing treated as out patients at the institute. A deputation to-day waitod on the trustees, who decided, with one dissenticJJfc that tbe distinction between membors oMiHiendly societies and othor poople shoud in luSti'C o be abolished. OUR SOLDIERS.

Major Pilcher cables from Capetown that Lieut. Taylor, Privates Qiinn, Mitchell, and McKelvie are dong well. Private Howard is dangerous!/ ill of enteric at Wynberg.

A TEST. The Minister of Railways is making arrangements for a comparative test of the locomotives manufactured in Groat Britain, America, and Now Zealand. This will take placo on the Clinton-Goro section of railways.