TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13063, 1 May 1913, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

_ I Nineteen places m New Zealand this 1 year elected their Mayors without oppo- \ sition. Experiments m the cultivation of glasses on poor lands -have been made m the Masterton district this year. The results have, generally speaking, been satisfactory. The Mayoral installation will take place at the Borough Council Chambers at noon on Wednesday next, when Mr W. Pettie will formally handi over the reins of office to the Mayor-elect, Mr J. R. Kirk. The trams have been well patronised this week, and have proved a great convenience during the wet weather. The business don-e was as follows : — Monday, 2589 passengers, £15 4s lOd; Tuesday, 1248, £7 12s 7d; Wednesday 1557, £9 A s 7d. . The appointment of a dog-tax collector has apparently been a. profitable one for the borough of Timaru. Before such an appointment was made the Borough Council received between £50 and £60 a year from the dog tax ; this year it ha 3 received £200 from it, and the salary of the collector is £40. i In the Matawai case, Neal vv Bain, and a counter-claim, evidence m connection with which was taken yesterday, his Worship entered judgment by consent for plaintiff on the original claim of £17 13s lid, less £1 15s allowed on the couinter-claim, and costs £3 7s Ad. Judgment was given for Bain on the counter-claim of £17 Is for £1 15s. A young man named C. Tyrell, a native of Takaka, 19 years of age, met with a serious accident while working at Tarakohe cement works on Thursday, reports the Golden Bay Times. By some means young fellow got his right hand caught m the cog wheels of some portion of the machinery, and the hand was so badly mangled as to render amputation necessary. iA tramcar is, perhaps, a< peculiar place for the operation of the referendum, but passengers to Sumner by the 6.10 car on Tuesday evening worked the scheme quite readily. The "voting booth" appearance of the tram and its trairer as they clattered through the lamp-lit stieets was novel. The passengers were called upon to say whether they preferred that Sumner cars should : leave Cathedral Square at 5.10 p.m. and 6.10 p.m., or at 5.15 p.m. and 6.15 p.m. Voting papers were distributed, the passengers struck out the line that did not suit them, and the conductor gathered m each paper, with the voter's name attached to make it valid. , From Mr D. M'Laren's box at a Clyde quay street corner, Wellington, on ; Saturday night, Mr Carey, a. Labor I ticket candidate for the City Council, ! made it clear (says a Wellington corres- j pondent) that if the "Labor" nominees are allowed to dominate the City Council the city's affairs will be guided not by the City Council, not by the "Labor' majority, but by the Trades Unionsand the Industrial Unions. These were Mr Carey's words: "It is no use blaming Mr M 'Laren [the Labor Mayor] for ■ what he has not done this year. So J long as you put only Mr M'Laren and I Messrs Hindmarsh. and Tregear into I the council you will not bo able to blame them again next year. You can't get ! what you want until you elect a, majority jof Labor candidates. If you do that, j then if Mr M 'Laren does not do what , ho is told, if the rest of us do not do ! what we are told, we will be tried ! not by you— but by the men who pay us m our jobs, and I tell you there are no harder taskmasters than the men who pay us." I An inspection of the Gentle Annie quarry was made yesterday by the Mayor (Mr W. Pettie). His Worship informed 1 a Herald ■ representative to-day that several important improvements had been effected at the quarry since his last visit. The development work has been further extended, and a connection has been effected between the two faces, which will quite do away with anydouble handling. The spawls from No. 2 face are now passed through a shoot direct into a. hopper at No. 1 face, which should thus enable a. substantial saving being mad© m the working expenses. His Worship went on to say that with the exception of a, wing on the left of. No. 2 face everything looked' very satisfactory, and so far as one could judge, •it the present rate of quarrying, there was m sight at these two faces sufficient for two years' supply, but they could not tell how much existed along the saxne line of strata. With a. view to testing the- position, some prospecting operations were being conducted further along on the edge of the bush, so that an estimate that would be regarded with confidence might be formed as to the resources. This work was goin,^ on, and the new Council would be able to go out and see the position for themselves.