LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1551, 21 September 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities advise that the s.a. Mnlicno, which sailed from Sydney ut 3 p.m. on (he 18tli instant for Auckland, has on board an Australian ninil, also an English mail via Suez. The Wellington portion is duo to arrive hero by Main Trunk on Monday noxt. A fino pair of flaimiißoes lias been purchased by Mr. A. H. Minchin, of tho Adelaide Zoo, ou behalf of the Wellington Zoological Society. Tho birds are expected hero next week. The TJnioir Steamship Company lias kindly consented to bring them from Melbourne frco of cost. The Mayor withes nil citizens, who can make it convenient to do so, to decorate their premises with flags in honour of Dominion Day (on Monday next). ■ "We're not afraid of rabbits," said Mr. G. J. Anderson, member for ■Mataura, in tho House of Representatives yesterday. "Rabbits in Southland have done more to break up largo estates than all the- lajid laws of the great Liberal party." The City Council decided in committee on Thursday evoning not to proceed any further in tho matter of tho proposed purchase of bush lands at Day's Bay. The man who was referred to at tho Miramar Borough Council's meeting as having refused to pay his faro wlien requested to do eo has written to the Town Clerk of Miramar, enclosing tho penny in disput", hut explaining that he did not refuse to pay, but a clip was taken out of his ticket, and ho wished another one taken out (for his little daughter), which the conductor refused to do, stating that the ticket was non-transferable. "Might I suggest, and ask the Borough Council," he says in conclusion, "to remove tho objectionable endorsement (not transferable;. 1 know, of course, tho purpose of the endorsement, but can it bo enforced ? I venture to say, no. With the endorsement you can, and do, make it very inconvenient and annoying to your residents. You are, under compulsion, making a resident take out a ticket for''each niember of a family. I nra sure that this is not your intention or wish. If it is,\ I might go as far as to say, with some residents, a wallet or handbag will bo required, and an unnecessary burden of card tickets. A nice picklo for poor mother in a crowded car with the family in different compartments. Further, if yon really wish to enforce the object of tho endorsement, why not make a provision in the sale of tho tickets, and so be sure samo are only sold to residents, and also only to the one who will actually use it for his or her travelling. You do not do so, and my business teaches mo that you cannot make this provision except by one particular method quite unworkable in tram' traffic." '

Yesterday Dc-tectivo Abbott arrested a young man, who will appear at the Srogistrate's Court this morning, on a charge of theft of an overcoat. An arrest was also mado by Detective Mason, and ns a result a young woman will this morning bo called on to answer a charge of stealing tho sum of 235. in money.