WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 21, 22 January 1901, Page 2

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

[PEH PRESS ASSOCIATION..]. Wellington, January 21. At a meeting of tho Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animal?, it wan dcciuetl that subscription iists ba opened at Wanganui, Palmcrston North, and Hawke's Bay, in order te widen the scope of the Society's sphere of action so as to include the districts mentioned. Retail butchers have advanced the pi'KO 'if mo it by half-p.uniiy per lb, and us there was an advance Jsomo months ago, m:,(\t is now a ponny dearer than a year iiiuca. There has been kson anxiety in tho city dutiug the day as to the progress of the Queea's illness. Cable melanges on the subject <vero, immediately on arrival, posted at the nowepaper offices and were eagerly scanned by large crowds e& people. The Uwhss Committeo of tho University Senate meet at Dunedin on Thursday for the compilation of the Matriculation and Junior Scholarship results which will probably bo announced on the following Monday or Tuesday. Th« delay of a few days has been ej»\tsefl by tho roiirrangement of the French dxamioation, consequent 'on the death of Profefsor Clarke. Sir James Hector, Chancellor of tho University left for Dunedin to-night. ' The escapee from tho Burnham In-* dustrial School who had stowed away on a steamer from Lyttejt&n was bafore the S.M. to day, and ordered to be seat to the institution and whipped with a birch. The youngster was subsequently placed in the cells of the pi'ica siatiou, but wriggled through an aperture used for passing food to tin inmates, and quickly vanished. During to-day £llO waa collected in the city towards a fund £or giving the Sixth Contingent <* farewell.