LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1309, 12 December 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The postal authorities advise that the. as. Moana, which left Sydney at noon on the 9th instant, lias on board tin Australian mail. She is due to arrive in

Wellington on Wednesday nest, the 13th instant.

So far the experiment of tho City Tramways Department in connection with a freight car service from Lambton Railway Station to Kilbirnio has given encouraging Tcsults, and promises to be very satisfactory. Special consignment tickets nro Ireing issued for tho convenience of , firms. Cases of fruit have boon tho most prominent item of the car-loads up to tho present. Pending the completion of tho road improvements in Charlotte, Street, the newoar service via that thoroughfare will bo delayed. It is not expected, even when tho loop service is inaugurated, that the existing time-tablo will bo altered till nftor tho holidays. The cars will leave tho terminal stations at tho present schedule times.

Tho corporation is pushing ahead with nil speed tho construction of four palace cars of the Wndostown typo, and also tho conversion of two mbro box cars into combination cars, so as to complete tho woTk before tho holidays—and tho operalion, on January 1, of the famous Davcy clause in tho Tramway Act Amendment Act of last session. Work on tho extension of the train way duplication works from tho und of tho present duplication on Jloxbam Arcnuo, .North Kilbirnio, lo the Kilbiniie Hotel commenced yesterday.

Tho industrial dispute between tho Wellington Plumbers' Union nnd the master plumbers was discussed before Ml , . 1 , . Jliuly, Conciliation Commissioner, yeslern,sV ii T ' lc Council consisted of Messrs. 1. lialluiKcr, 11. Davios, ami W. Itemington, assessors for the employers, and Messrs. J. Bassctr, W. E. Williams, and l(. J. Waters, assessors for tho workers. If , Y- Grcn!M alul Mr. M'. Slaughter attended as agents for tho respective parties. The Council sat in tho morning and afternoon, and Adjourned until next month.

"the affairs of the Fresh Air Fund for 1011, writes Mr. C. A. lVarson, in a letter to tho Editor of Tjir, Dominion, have now beeu rounded up, nnd you will, I know, Iμ interested to hear that they come out very nicely. Wo havo MicCMded in l)otitin<; all records and tins, in faro of tho notoriously bad season for charities owinj; to tho c-ils ot the Coronation, :s a result with which J think we should be very pleased. I want to thank you most" sin •orn'y an J Kratgfully for your kindness in ownißK a BtibiwHptioa list on behnli , of lie 1 rosh Air FuiiLV