DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 27, 29 May 1912, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS.

(Per Press Association.! Wellington May 2??. [n connection with tin- cablegram today, the late Duchess of Sutherland was' in 189.'5, [hied £250 and sentenced lo aix weeks' imprisonment, for destroying a document in connection with a probate case, this document having been given to her for her in* spection. , ~ Auckland, May 28. At the Police Court, Mrs. Annie Strange pleaded guilty to performing an illegal onoration on Florence Wheeler, and was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence. Palmers ton, May C 2S. The Farmers' Union conference for tho Wellington Province opened this morning. Tn his presidential address Mr. ,j.(!. Wilson congratulated the province on the prosperous year in all departments of farming. He predicted that next .season would he equally prosperous. He warned. farmers against the growth of Socialism. "There is one important point," he said, "which I shoiild like to bring before'your not ice—that the populations of the towns exceeds (as shown by the las! census) thai of the country districts—rather an alarming position in a voung country, whoso insure is bound up in agriculture. Wo know that the towns unfortunately are the happy hunting grounds for all sore? of theorists who wish to upset the present condition of things and carry out their theories, which in the past have proved failures again and again. They are nearly all aimed at placing further taxation on somebody other than themselves." Mr. Wilson referred to the success of the Union's mutual assurance scheme, and the Farmers' Distributing Company. Auckland, May 28. General Baden-Powell was welcomed

by the Mayor, City Councillors, and a large gathering el citizens this morn iiig. The Mayor extended a cordial welcome. Genera! Baden-Powell referred to the Sew Zeulanders bravery in the Boer War. He thanked .New Zealand for its present. Speaking oi the Scout movement, be said a different discipline was required from that which controlled the old machinemade soldier. They had now to deal with men of intelligence. He bad found that putting a boy on his hoijpur en abled reliance to be placed on bun. Wellington. May 28.

A meeting of the Advisory Board o: the Employers' Federation was held to-day to consider the question of the Commission appointed to enquire into tiie cost of living. Two resolutions were adopted—() "That uie Advisory Board, while ready to welcome anj practical enquiry into the problem oi the alleged greater cost of living, regrets that the personnel generally oj the present Commission and the fact that no political economists or statisfcicvaiis of anv standing are members, compels the Board to recognise that the Commission is futility;" (2) "That as the increased cost of living m a subject of world-wide interest importance, and not peculiar to -New Zealand, the Employers' Federation considers it advisable that representation should be made to the Imperial Government that a Commission consisting of leading British political economists, statisticians and others of export knowledge should be set up to discover the basic causes, and that the New Zealand Government be requested _to defer the local enquiry until this information is available.'