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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 239, 27 January 1877, Page 2

is ' ! " Xr may not bu generally known that Li tWifrTtf* • p«f m.i./ pji-caasj and pay ' fcr avwihray ticket, it docs mi became i

lis undisputed prop.rty. i.taimneh n3 fee b not at liberty to transfer or

give it away to another. Why this i should fco so>, i» somewhat difficult to imagine, b«t that sttcti is the fact there j cm be iw» doriht. Le k . a person purchase wvl pay for any article, an«l w r .:at would | hi said of the vealor who, after making a sale, soirji.t to control the action of the buyer as to the disposal of the object bought ? We tutagins the amount of custom wottld not cause much trouble. With railways and steamers, however, the pablie are, in a measure, not free agents in the disposal of their tickets. A case has just been heard in the Lyttelton Police Court, in which a man was prosecuted for handing his ticket over to his son. Th«> case was not proven, but the fact remains that, had it been, a heavy penalty could lave been inflicted. Although, perhaps, the general public may not have been aware of the law on that point, we have long been so ; yet we confess we were never able to s e the trinity of the arran ;emeut. It may W urged chat the liny is defrauded, inasmuch as f the person wrongfully making U33 of the ticket bad not received it, there is aviary probability he woulJ be c impelled to purchase a ticket, an I so add to the revenue; tut the same mig'it be sail in every other case when a gift is mad . By this process of reasoning, the psrs.n wlio gives anot'ter a c «t inflicts an injury nit the tailor, an*! t .e man who bestows a pair <uf boots stabs the interest of the bootmaker. Still, were either the on •o? the other to air their gritvance in a Court »>f Just we. Wt? imagine their «x;>emnce worth! not be particularly happy. It cerr»U»lly *b>:9 preposterous that a p rsort pay* a c rtatn Mini for a curtain aceotunwdafiori, and becanse he himself : m;»y be dsrbarr.-d from making ihe ns-e ; chtreof. the attempt t» utilise what hj« I I: as paid for bring* him within the clutches »>f the taw, and becomes a crime.