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Hastings Standard, Issue 483, 23 November 1897, Page 3

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GENERAL ITEMS. fPer Pr eax Asmcii'lion.) At f'KL\ni>, This day. Mrs Barker, wife of Mr Barker, jnr., settler, Puhoi. has been lost in the bosh since Sunday. Strong search parties are out but so far with no success. Sai'ed—"Waihora, for south. Passengers—Misses Berry, Guthrie, Short, Hailev, Peacock, Shailer, Gothoraue. "VVatkins, Lindsay ; Mesdames Smart, Waddell, Baldwin, Baker and party, Smith, Perorie: Messrs Hay ward, Laidlaw, Vassey, Mitchell, Powrie, Frield, Thompson, Jones, Eyre, Beattie, Wallace, Callin, Kivs, Watkins, and Dr Hansford. DrxEDix, This day. Arrived—lnvercargill, ship, Bowling, master, from Glasgow. Wellington, This day. The master bootmakers, building contractors, furniture makers and tailors have justly protested against the Bakers* Association in calling upon Mr J. Wilkie to resign from the Conciliation Beard, ami have placed on record their appreciation of his good services. In the Supreme Court, -John Walker, for breaking and entering, was admitted to probation for six months. A nolle fii'ns, /»i was entered in the cases against Ellen Chancy charged with theft. Captain Powell, who has been in charge of the Torpedo station, Auckland, for some years is about to retire, on compensation. He will be succeeded by Captain Boyle, who lately arrived from Home, Masterton, This day. At a representative meeting last night nncler the auspices of the New Zealand Alliance it was resolved that this meeting learns with astonishment that it is the intention of the Government to limit the scope of the enquiry into the police question so as to exclude an investigation of the causes that have led up to the necessity for a Royal Commission being appointed, and urges the Government to reconsider its decision so as to cover the whole question of the organisation and administration for the past five years.