GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1915, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

REFORM AND RESCUE WORK. By Telegraph.—i Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 2. Relegates from various women's societies interested in reform and rescue work waited upon the Hon. R. McNab (Minister of Justice) to-day to ask him to present certain petitions to the House of Representatives. The deputation complained of the frequency of offences against children and the inadequacy of the punishment meted out to offenders, and asked that the law be. amended so as to provide substantial minimum penalties, particularly in the ca-se of second and third offences. Mr. McNab expressed sympathy with the objects of the deputation, but" pointed out that it was impossible for Parliament to deal with the petitions this session. | ARBITRATION COURT AWARDS. ! (ireymouth, Oct. 2. In deciding fbilt the old Watersiders' Union award of 1013 is no longer valid and that the Union Steam Ship Company had not committed a broach of such award by employing new unionists and entering into an agreement with the same, the Arbitration Court in its judgment told the union that it seems to regard an award much as the Germans regard an international treaty as a "men.- strap m' paper," binding on them if and only when it suited their own purposes, and just as the (forma u viewhad been condemned by all civilised nations as absolutely destructive of international morality and good faith, so the court thinks if Hie union's views of an award were to prevail it would be absolutely destructive, of industrial morality and good faith.

COAL SHIPMENTS FROM WESTPORT. West port, Last Xight. Coal -hipments last, week:—Westpori Coal Company I 1,304, tons 14 ewt., coke, 17 Urns 13 ewt.; Westport-Stockton Company 4063 ton* 18 ewt. WELLINGTON CUSTOMS DUES. Wellington, Last Xight. The Customs revenue collected at the pSrt of Wellington during the quarter ended September 30, lfllS, was slightly less than that taken during the same period last year. There -was, however, a substantial increase on the takings for the month of September. The figures are as follows:—Quarter ended SopUvAher 30. 1914. C 251.182 lis lid; 1915, 1248.720 13s 2d; month of September, 1014, £OI,OOI IDs sd; 1015, £OB.BOI Us Oil. The beer duty for the quarter totalled £3300 2s 2d, a.s eonj]mred with £3273 ltis lid for the corresponding period last year, and for the month of September, 1915, £llßs 15s lOd, the amount collected in September last year being £llO2 16s 4d.