TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7925, 5 October 1904, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Association)

GISBORNE, October 4. , The Cook Memorial Committee this afternoon selected the design submitted by Messrs McNab and Mason, of Auckland, for the memorial. The coac is to be £1000. Cook Day (October Btb, 1905) was decided upon as the day for the unveiling ceremony. A conference between Messrs W. Ne'aon and the Harbour Board, regarding the deepening of the Taruhera river to facilitate the working of Nelson Bros., frozen meat barges, resulted in the Board offering to make an arrangement by which Nelson Bros, would deepen the upper portion of the river, the Board' to give £400 towards the cost, provide a punt, and purchase the machinery at val ia-.ion if they de.ired to continue the work.

CHRISTCHURCH, October 4. The Council of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals tonight discussed the question of the destruction of Bm^.ll birds, and decided !o write to the local bodies, pointing out that the practice.of paying for the heads of Bmall birds h.d encouraged children to become cruel.

The Premier and party returned from the West Coast to-night, catching the ferry boat for Wellington. - A deputation from the Trades and Labour Council waited on the Premier and asked for a full public enquiry into the conditions prevailing at Sunnyside Asylum, on tbe ground of the great public mistrust in the management. The Premier replied that the Minister had arranged that attendants should have the right of direct appeal to him, and as the House had already rejected the proposed Appeal Board, it would be inadvisable to reconsider tha question at present. He failed to see any need for an inquiry, as the whole trouble had arisen through the dismissal of two men in consequence of inquiry, by a thoroughly capable man.