WELLINGTON NEWS ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 221, 1 October 1901, Page 2

WELLINGTON NEWS ITEMS.

PROPOSED RECIPROCITY. na PBJBB association, Auckland, September SO. Among the passenger* by tht Son ana was Mr Laid, chairman of tht Postal Committee of the United State* House of Representatives, who conferred here with Mr Witheford re the mul servioe and reciprooity. Mr Loud expressed an opinion that a reciprocal tariff might be arranged with this oolony, to include suoh as wool, flax, and Curtain agricultural products, Al the present time there wen several similar treaties awaiting the consideration of Congress. He suggested th* Government should send a delegate to Washington during the next sitting of Congress, and promised to do all he oould to further a mutually advantageous arrangement. His visit to Australia has greatly impressed him with trade possibilities with thee* colonies.

MR FRBBS ASSOOTATW9 Wku4hotdv, Sspfember 10. ! The staff of instractars has now settled do to to work in the newly organised school of military tioo. On Saturday a class of 35 noncommissioned offioers, representing every oorjw in the Wellington Garrison, {completed a five week's course of io- | struotioos at the sohool. During tin* time the menattended evening lectures, and outdoor ' exercises on afternoons. To-morrow fifteen offlom from all parts of the colony begin • course of instruction.

During the quarter enied th re were only two bankruptcies u Wellington ci'y, as again°t sixteen for th * oorr< spoariiog period last year. This afternoon the Stipendiary Magistrate, on the application of tb* Grown, granted an order giving tto Grown liberty to inspeot, and tak* copies of certain entri- s in the books of tbe B«nk ti New Zealand with re-' ferenoe to the case against Thornae Conn, which was before the Court thie morning. The order was made under the Bank and Bankers Aot, of 2880. and 1887. *

George Payne, lioencet of tb* Western Hotel, was to-day chargtd «ith Sunday trading. It appeared 'hut at 8 o'clock on the evening nt S-ptember Ist, a fireman from, thai Tarawera, which arrived in port shortly after noon, was given liquor after having stated that he wag a traveller, and had just arrived from Lyttelton. Tb» Court informed defendant that tber* were other point&on which applkwnt* for rdfrdshtnobti should J>6 question*), than whether they were mere traveller*. It wa? a startling proposition tbit •he craw of a ship arriving on Bund«y nould l/e Ferved with drink in the oven»np. Judgment would be g'ven ia writing.