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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1732, 24 April 1913, Page 9

A trnmcar is, perhaps, n peculiar place for the operation of tlio referendum (says our Christchnrch correspondent), but passengers to Sumner by the C.IO car on Tuesday evening; worked the scheme quite readily. The "voting booth" appearance of the tram and its trailer as they cla'ttered through the lamp-lit streots was novel.' The passengers weru called upon to say whether they preferred that Sumner cars should leave Cathedral Square at 5.10 p.m. and (1.10 p.m., or at 5.15 p.m. and C.15 p.m. Voting papers were distributed, tho passengers struck out IJie line tlia't did not suit them, and tho conductor gathered in each paper, with Ihe voter's name allnehed to inake.it valid.

. Dit'kens and , lialzae, living before noveli-ls ivatkeii in I'ear of libel iitlions. took the names of their characters from above the shop doors of London and Pnris. .Mt. Frankfort; lloore confesses to an equally easy, but safer method. He draws the names'a!' lus t'ollr from tombstones. Dead men toll no tales.

Over 218,WW words of press messages were-dealt with by the JSrighton telegraphic staff in connection with the Hove veronal inriucsl. The figures exceeded all previous records at tho oilice. One day 51,000 words wero sent ovor the tape, tho previous highest for ono day being 42,000 words, .