NEWS AND NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1560, 2 October 1912, Page 8

NEWS AND NOTES.

THE MACARTHY TRUST. Mr. F. Lanj; presented to the House of Representatives .yesterday the report of tho Joint Committee on Standing Orders on Private Dills upoli '.'The Thos. Geo. Macarthy Trust-Act, 1912." The committee recomiucndcd that as,the Bill was of nn urgent and national character, the Standing Orders relating' to Private Bills should be suspended' and the Bill allowed to proceed as ii. Public Bill. .The committee added that the, circumstances ■ were exceptional, and that the course they recommended, if adopted, should not be taken as a precedent. The House adopted tho report. IN BRIEF. •Win. E-iley, formerly anayent of the Government Life Insurance Department, and previously Printer Overseer of the Lyttelton Prison, has petitioned the ; House of Representatives- for some re- | numeration fo'r extra service rendered in the latter.capacity. Mr. Wilford present|cd the petition. . .- .- Mr. Hindmarsh has presented a peti-., Hon.from Kate Jlapniir'e, of Wellington , , in which she ■ states that, her late huslyind whs employed by the Post.and Telegraph Department for nearly 30 year*, njid was Mill in tire, employ' of-tho Department, at the tinio of lm death, when he \r:is recriv. in? a salary of r i22D a-yo.ir. Owing , to, the petitioner's husband having bccnnio.lwnk'rnpt over twenty year*'ago, the Telejrranh Department.'refused'to pny petitioner the oninpi>n?atii>n to which >h? wpuld- otherTC.vbo entitled. Sim stairs that she lias no.means of support,.and asks the Boitso toßrant her such compensation jls-is"iridet.