WELLINGTON SPECIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 229, 5 October 1901, Page 2

WELLINGTON SPECIAL.

INSPECTOR LEE’S CASE.

(Special to Times.)

Wellington, last night. The Education Board having been unsuccessful in obtaining anyone to preside over the proposed enquiry into tho differences between the Board and its chief inspector, the enquiry cannot take place to-inorrow, and therefore stands adjourned sine die. Tho Chairman of tho Board has in view a gentleman who may possibly accept the position if allowed to adjudicate on the evidence, but failing his services, tho Board will be called together to consider the position, and decido what is to bo done in the matter. THE PLAGUE.

The Government had proposed to declare Australian ports clean, there having been no cases of plague reported from Queensland, the last of the infected States, for a period of forty-two days, but to-day tho cable reporting a fresh case at Brisbane will mean that tho precautions in this colony will have to be continued. LABOR DISPUTES.

Since the first of Juno twenty-two cases have been investigated by the Board of Conciliation in Wellington. Three have been settled by industrial agreement, two were withdrawn by consont, and seventeen have been referred to the Court for settlement. Tho figures do not put the conciliatory efforts of the Board in a favorable light, and it would be interesting to find out what it has cost the colony to support a Board that can only show a record of having effected threo settlements out of more than a score of disputes dealt with.

VICTORIA OPERATING THEATRE. There is every probability of the Victoria Operating Theatre at the Wellington Hospital, built by public subscription, being in occupation shortly. Delays have occurred since the erection of the building was begun, nearly three years ago, but now all the articles for its equipment are to hand. That the new theatre is needed is proved by the great amount of work surgeons have to do at the hospital. During the first six months of this year 360 operations were performed by Dr Ewart and the hon. surgeons. The new theatre will be one of the best equipped operating rooms in the colonies.