LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 681, 4 December 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tho postal . authorities advise that ' thi ,'-/ Mahonb, which-left Sydnoy on .Wednesday, for ' Auckland, has ;on- board an; English, and Aus-'.' ./ tralian mail-for Wellington, which is'dub, her! '~-..' ■by the -Auckland express on- Monday, afternoon' \- next. ./// : //'- .'■;.•..-■ ."'■■:.^.-''..',;'.,.' . '..'.;■ }■'•;■■:.' .The New .Zealand oiiekoo may; now bo heard of an evening .in the bush behind Muritai,-/. says .a correspondent.' A resident is said lo- ;. have"heard, the note on' Saturday, and again./ last' Tuesday at' about 8 o'clock. The ' cuckoo \ is of a greyish colour, with a swallow-like: tail. It is said to have.the power of a ventriloquist,; ~< At. all ovonts,"the spot from which tho: note apparently, comes, is not necessarily the; place-/ where the/bird-is.. * -;' ; '/;,.//;/■, ;'';/' ;i - Complaint .was: made by a correspondent in yostorday's issue in reference to the noise made at night by.the new turbine at: .the City' .-•■ council's /new.^lighting.' works, '..in ■ Mercer. Street.'- The Tramways Eugmeer states that ; the noise is made by one: of tho. auxmafy exhausts, and efforts are boing made to deaden the sound.-The turbine itself cannot be heard, v 100 yards'away;from tho; power-house. :■, <■'.'■!' Tho success which' attended the running of ' the late car from Newtown to the Lambton / station last Sunday night has ■ prompted' tho ~ City' Council to/further incrcaso the service, starting frbiri to-morrow night. Consequently,; a car will' leavd. Constable Street at 9.50 p.m., ; and'run to ,: ithe". Government' station .via '• Courtena'y Place.and Lamhton Quav, : returning ', to Newtown via the same route..; All .fates will//: be threepbheo/;, ,-• / '/.'/' '.'■•/;,'• / ' ...'■■•••'. Apropos of tho refusal of Councillor Hindmarsh to voto, on a .division at Thursday ; night's meeting »f the -City -Council.' when,.; called on to do so, Section CO of,tho Municipal / Corporations Act appears to havo some bearing;; ■ ■; on tho point.; .Tho section.in question reads■.,■:.• as under acts of the council, and of, any , .'■ committee,. 1 and), all questions.; .;'./'• : -arising .-:. bofbrotho' council or. any committee, may bo" done and decided by tho majority of such v membors of the council or committee-', as ar«.:, present -andrvoto:at'.'a"meeting -held in .-puis'.'.'..". suanco' of: this-'Act or, of any -regulation or bylaw' mado thereunder,, tho whole numbra ■ / present at the meeting, (whether .voting or/not) ... being not less than ono-hnlf ofc the number of tho -whole council' or /committee."... .'Tho-.'.'■ Standing Orders of the Council, however, stnt« •.'.; that ovory member present when a question ; is put, and: not interested therein, must vote,.. , otherwise ho shall be held guilty of contempt , : If ho has not'heard tho.question, the Mayor-; ■shall again put it to, him.,; A' further' clam*.;-/ in the StandW Orders- provides that a couh-; . cillor held guilts', of contempt'shall/be.; cen-..;:. sured by ! the chairman," and/ such consnrij';/. shall bo recorded in tho minutes.:: It would .;,,. appearthat the question is onG.for.lopal.arjpi-. >•:• mont as to whbtbor iii this case tho Standing:-,' Orders'override ,tho- Act,'-'■.-■'/-.:,/ ~r : • /-.. .'./y,/ ./

A huge metallic fihmont lamp, tho most powerful Osram which hat. jet boon bi-ought into New Zealand, was unpacked at the City Lighting 'Works yostordm. 'J ho light, i lucb, is of .tOO candle-power, Is to bo put Ihiougli ft thorough test by tho Lighting Superintendent, mid ii--the tost is successful, it is prohibit that the lamp may bo recommended for Irani-waj-trftfk lJßlttmg. Tor the present, tho lamp la on exhibition at the Harris Street show- - I0Q1U&. ~ ,