LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 396, 4 January 1909, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Mokoia did not arrive at Auok]and in time to connect with yesterday's southward steamer, 'so that the English and Australian mail on! board will not reach Wellington till to-morrow night. : . -...■■ , A man was arrested on Saturday on a charge of indecently assaulting a little girl in Nowtown X'ark. . Detective Cassells.arrested a.man on Saturday evening on a charge of stealing a horse, saudlo, ancTbridlej at Eketahuna on or about December B. -" _' -.■■•■. .-.- . At the Mount-Cook Police.Court on.Saturday morning, before Mr. J. Coogau, J.P., John Leavy, Henry M'Cormack,. John. M'Kay, and - Norman Christopher, charged with insobriety, were y convicted. • and : dis-' charged. Two first offenders similarly charged were each fined 10s., in default.4B hours' Albert Trornson was fined 203,, in default seven days, , .imprisonment. Accidents of any Itind have bean wanting in connection with the running of the city trams these holidays, At a time of the year when so many people are about it is.only to bo expected that somebody will experience tho .misfortune of injury on the cars, : and therefore exemption from any mishap whatever is all the more gratifying to reoord, and speaks well for the care exercised by the tramways staff. The "Manawatu Farmer" has, with ;the dawn ,of the New Year, taken unto itself a new name. "It is with much satisfaction," observes our contemporary, "that we present our readers to-day with the first issue of a daily paper published in Levin.;. The progress of the town and district warrants the step, and wo aro sanguine that the change from a tri-weekly will tell .for good in several ways. We have changed the name of the paper from ' The Manawatu Farmer' to "I'he Horowhoriua Cbroniolo. , This district is not now included in the Manawatu, and tho old name of the' paper was therefore inappropriate." The motorman loolced puzzled and the conductor was exasperated, still the electric,bell on a'Courtenay PJace car on Saturday continued to ring continuously. Someone muttered —"Silence, that dreadful belli" but it would not be silenced, but rang monotonously as the car raced for the next stopping place. ' The officials had evidently come' to the conclusion that "something-had gone wrong with the works," when from the top of the stairs, a passenger yelled out—"Hi, you're sitting on the belli" The passenger who had be«n seeking rest on the bell knob raised a Wan smile, and stood erect again m the crowded car."' ' ." ' '."'"'