LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1099, 11 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails which left Wellington on March 3 per s.s. Wiurimoo, and connected at Svdney with the Naples mail, per R.M.S, O'rsova, arrived at London on the morning of April 9.

Of advertising on cars tho Mayor (Mr. T. M. Wilford) remarks, in a statement which lie will present to the City Council to-day: "Past councils have steadfastly set their faces against allowing advertising on cars, and, considering the methods of advertising proposed, 1 quite that they acted in the best interests of the city, but, lately, tho attention of tho council has l>een drawn to the manner in which advertising is carried out on cars in other cities, and tho manner in which advertisements are standardised. The advertisements are etched on glass, and the whole of the work is done in on olfectivo and pleasing , Tav _ it j-i needless for me to mention the matter further at present, as the incidents connected with it arc too fresh in tho minds of councillors."

Not only the milk wo drink and the meat we cut, but, also, the. beer, and I lie wine, and the whisky wo drink needs the attention of inspectors, according to Mr. W. S. Bedford, a City Council candidate. The intoxicants served out are. he reckons, below what they ought to be incjitnlitv.' though the City Council gets ,Cto a year for every licensed house. Fifty years ago stuff such as is sold in Wellington now was known only in the waybacks. lie had been told that a brewer hud been brought out hero from Scotland, and shown into a place which was much like a chemist's laboratory. The Scotsman loft; he tnid he was a. brewer, not a ehemisi.

"This is the nnlv country in the British Dominions," said Mr. A. L. llordman last evening, "where you will find a Government that is absolutely afraid to declare its policy on a big public question. The policy of the Government on the land question," he added, "is as groat a mystery as thi disappearance of the Waratatu"-

The ability of some women to play a part in polities when they feel so intho Hon. A. T. Ngata in Auckland.

partuie from ordinary procedure which occurred at the lennination of Mr. A.

L. Herd man's address in the Town Ilall evening. Usually Ike duty of proposing a vote of thanks and confidence is entrusted to a member of the sterner sex, but on this occasion it was performed in irreproachable fashion by a lady. Mrs. .M'Cabe, the lady in question, bore herself upon the platform with easy confidence, and delivered a brief but pithy spcccli, which would have done credit to any man in the audience. Tho innovalion was warmly applauded.

".May I have the pleasure of asking you, gentlemen, 'if you would allow mo to sell mills in tlio borough," was the request preferred to the I'etonc Borough Council at its meeting lest evening by a local resident. The "suaviter in moilo" was a success for the application was granted. .Several official notices were received by (lie Petone Borough Council at its meeting Inst evening from the Health Department, reporting the existence of scarlet fever in the borough.

It is now probable that the reserved decision of tho Court of Appeal in the case T. Kennedy Macdonald v. liofo and others may not be ready until about two weeks after the Easter vacation of the Supremo Conn.

"Our f.ea is teeming with fish, and yet I paid ninepence for a flounder on Saturday night." Mr. W. Scott Bedford, City Council candidate, was complaining that, if too much fish was caught it was thrown overboard, rather than that it should be sold cheap. "Scandalous," he said.

A "korero" of the Wellington Savage. Club is to be lipid at the Masonic Hall on Saturday, April 29.

At. about ten o'clock last, night, a. man was found ■without lawful excuse, it is alleged, on promises in Hobson Street, and was handed over to the police.

The Easter holidays to be observed by solicitors practising in Wellington will bo Good Friday to Easter Tuesday, inclusive. "What is an agitator?" Mr. Herdman was asked last evening. "Is it not a fact, that Abraham Lincoln was known in his own time as an agitator?" Mr. Herdman replied that a man like Abraham Lincoln was a far-seeing patriot, who looked into tho future and sought no private end. Tho agitator agitated in his own interest.

Two new cars are under construction at. (ho corporation workshops. They aro single-truck vehicles of the small palace variety.