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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 633, 9 October 1909, Page 5

: "Cardiff-,'tramcar coiiductor was recently stomas :• :weoks';, imprisonment,- ".with . hard, labour, for cheating the Cardiff COrpora- '' " 0 \Tno i conductor issued a v? . passenger;a. ticket which had- been vised by an* .i;.' j Passenger 'on the previous journey. An .'•vvlv'OTeal:'was.made to the House of Commons for ', , ! v A.reduetion; Of the'sentence,; but the question ' ibeeri;definitely .decided when the last mbil. left. .When tho matter, was raised/, tho Hoaie Secretary (Mr,, Gladstone) said>that.if.the :P° did, hot .think .it could be ;■' Said thatthe punishment was : necessarily. excesjiye, • merely ',De6ause',the. siim' stolen ,wis ono peniiy. Pi'•"• ifWorfe Lyell Bay tramline IS at a.starid...s;- -''Mi ' .having .been; de- '; flayed shortage of sleepers.' When, the . ®le®|iers.,coir\y to;hdnd, .worit' will be resumed; »v -.^ut'another,delay'will probably be caused later ; ;s, .the rails', WlI doubtles3 -have to be waited : .i:; ; -The new room ;of the Wellington l Stock Ex.hunge .. in .the ~;ferro-concrctb .building at. tho corner, of: Featherston; and.Panama ■ Streets was ; formally openci' yestorday afternoon; - The .furictibn was plirolyja private affair, no press .lopreseritativca being invited to- be'"present..-

; ;. A' man' was 'arrested 'by Constable • Gordon . testerday'on. a charge of theft from tho person; lie theft is alleeed to have been committed at., :\ - t fork Strret.; .Tho police ■ will - ask..for a, re;,fliand at tho,:Magistrate'» Court this morning. i l -: ;; "If.Cook,says he reached tho Pole, he really ~. thinks he (Ud. He's an honest man," says Mr. . Wyatt,' of, the Sari -Fraiiciscb "Call," who iit- • 'ived hefe. yesterday. Mr. Wyatt is personally {/ Sacquainted ylth Commander; Peary, but : ho de.:cli,ned to,give-any t ;opiiiibn as to his claim' to ..' . have, discovered the Pole. '-

'Tho .'feeling /gaming,ground ;that: fish banks ; Bouth of. Stewart .Island aro getting towards depletion has/met rather rudo rebuff (says ; thq'.Hluff''Tress"). 'Sunday last the Britannia,: ■ carrier craft,beanie in from liroad Bay, bringiitg''36s. cases blue , cod, all. v. good-sized fish. ■The word b'rdiight is,that, with anything liko jood /tfeiitber;' the fish craft' aire' still" 'able' to do good business-