WELLINGTON.

Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 40

WELLINGTON.

I The local company that sent the tug Duco on a fish-catching expedition to the Chatham Islands is satisfied that a good trade might 'be developed, as the blue cod caught are particularly good specimens. The txade is, however, likely to be somewhat hampered by our shipping laws, seeing that under the Shipping and Seamen Act the Duoo is regarded as a foreigngoing vessel, owing to the fact that the ■ Chatham Islands are excluded from the ' scope of home trade shipping. It is contended that under this provision the com--paay has to oarry an unnecessary officer and men. Probably same modification of , the law to meet the case may be attempted j during the coming session of Parliament. i It is understood that the Labom testimonial to Mr Hogg, M.P , will represent a large sum, subscriptions having come in very freely. Elsie Lindergreen (concerned m tha alleged mock marriage affair) was . employed in the Wellington Hospital as a maid servant, not as a nurse, as she stated in the Gisborne Court. She received a telegram addressed to her as nurse, bat for this she was reprimanded, Then she left without giving notice, sending for her luggage subsequently During July the new estates placed und-ei the Public Trustee for administration exceeded the average for the month by nearly double. This record, however, was beaten in August, during which month 171 new estates came into the office. Owing to the depression in trade a well-known firm which has its headquarters in Dunedin is closing its Wei- • lington branch, - which has been established for several years. Some other wholesale firms have been reducing the number of their hands. ..At the Police Court on the 6th, Charles" Cunmingham, of the New Idea Supper Room in Tpry street, was fined £10 on each of two charges of sly grog-selling on a Sunday. Officers in plain clothes, who were served with liquor, said that 20 or 30 men were sitting at a table oa which were half-empty bottles and glasses. The free-place pupils who are entitled to admi&oion to the Girls' High School will not join the classes uni 1 after the present year. This decision has been amicably come to by the College Governors and th© Gk>ve.rn<inent. It was felt that it would be a foolhardy proceeding to take scholars away from their classes at the present time, as they are just in the middle of a term. The present term en>ds in December, and the parties interested agree that pupils who a.re entitled to free places would be better served by going on with their studies and completing the course upon which they had entered.