THE TRAMWAY CRISIS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1321, 27 December 1911, Page 4

THE TRAMWAY CRISIS.

CITV COUNCIL KURRIEDLY

A fresh development in Hi" crisis which, lwfi arisen between tho City Council and the Tramwayruen's Union in connection willi Uμ case of Inspector Fnlkr. hna been tiio convening ofu special emcrBency meeting or the- council nt 1 o'clock tio«lay. Further then tlwt there is nothing to report. The Mayor (Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P.) is at present pojitcinplntinif •« Jong sea voyage, and was, it is understood, to have left Wellington to-morrow. Jn reply to a Question last evening ho Niid that ho had not yot decided where ho was going, 'bnt would definitely arrange his plans to-day. Whether tho tramway crisis will inntorliilly alter his . avvaiiKelnents remains to be seen. At pres-ont ho has in view three travel voutos. "1 may so fo Knglnnd, or Monte Video, or Honolulu," he ,siid lost jiiaht, ■ Mr, Suthei'land (i-perelnvy of thfi iiii!Bii)i in reply to n qneslion, ]pmnrl;ed to a representative of Tun Dominion , Inst evening that the forbenrnned of tho union in the nintler of its agreement with the City Council had probably led councillors to think that the union would put up with nlniost anything. Tho union hud allowed the settlement' of the agreement to bo delayed for twelve months, and Ihorc appeared to be a disposition to lake Mlrnningo of the npivil of fnrliearaneo that hnd ltcen shown,' but it would bo found that on (he mat lor now in dispute Ihu men were absolutely di'lermined,.

ThiM Immlred and ciplity-three nor** of land are a<l vertised for sale in (his Is«hp by Mr. J: , . .1. Marlell, land u; ;onl, t'liinbridpi'. Mrs. Matlifctvson, oiiltifter, Lambton Quay, notifies olscwhcve iji this issun thai, her Christmos h.i renins last until the Mid Of Deermter. Straw hats form tlio snb'ert of n special nnnouueemeiit' ia this i.'.rne, It i* inserted by Mcwrs. ond Gibson, "The Kash," Willis Street.