LATE COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 76, 1 April 1910, Page 8

LATE COMMERCIAL.

FROZEN MEAT MARKET. [BY TELEGn.VPH— I'HESjS ASSOCIATION.] CIIRISTCHURCII, Tim Day. The Britidh-Now Zealand Meat and Produce Company hat) rocoiycd rho following cable message regarding the London frozen meat market: — Mutton and lamb market lirni, with good demand. Prhno Canterbury, 48 to 64 lbs, 4Sd ; 64 to 72 It*, 44d; North Island, 4Jd and 4id. Lamb, Canterbury prime, up to 42 lbs, sid; North Island, sgd. SILVER. (Received April 1, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 31st March, outer is quoted nt 24 3-16 d per ounce. An interesting point, of moment to tram passengers, was raised in the .Magistrate's Couit to-day, incidental to a ease in which Mr. James Doyle, city inspector, prosecuted David Wright for failing to pay his tram fare. Evidence was given that the conductor had been through the car on two or three occasions, and demanded nil fares, and afterwards the inspector found that defendant had no ticket. "Did you ask defendant individually?" asked the Magistrate of the conductor in the witness box. "No, your Woiship; but I asked for fares in a. loud voice so that all should hear," replied the v-itness. The Magistrate remarked that" on an occasion when he travelled on the tramway he had suggested to Ihr conductor, who was calling out in a loud voice for fares, that he would do his work more effectively if he used a moderate tone. In connection with the case before him, lie said he was not prepared to say that when a person was found by the inspector not to have his ticket, it was to be presumed that he had not paid his faro. A fine was imposed in the case hefoie the touit. Moved, as ho said, by a spirit of e« ononiy. Councillor Muir put two question* at the Miiatnar Borough Council meeting last evening that weie not pleasing to the M.iyor (Mr. C. J. Ciawlord). First Councillor Muir wanted to know why three lamps were left alight in the borough on n moonlight night? Whose duty was it to look after this? he asked. It w.is sheer waste of money to bum artificial light "when the nioon hath ruined her lamp to-night. " The Mayor .-aid the lamplighter received the princely salary of 5s i v week. If councillors wished the work better done they would har« to pay more. Councillor Muir then suggested that the engineer who received, he understood, £250 a year, (-Would be compelled to irsitJ** in the borough and look after things. The Mayor resented this pioposal ai discourteous. Ko long as he remained in the chair ho would nut permit petty matters of this kind to utilise the time of the council, which could be better employed. Councillor Muir then nuned a motion to the effect that the engineer fchould be compelled to reside in the borough, and this the Mayor refused to jeceive. It should, he said, be moved at the proper time. Councillor Muir, waxing warm, said lie was there to represent the electors and the Mayor shut him up every time. The .Mayor retorted that he, too, lenrekentcd electors, and ratepuyeis' concern? were as much 1m as Councillor Muir's. Latei in the evening Councillor Muu- •wanted to know why the lady lypiste in the town cleik s office rould not act as poll tlerk for the toming election, and so save the borough £2 2s. This suggestion the Mayor asjain lesented. The young lady was not in the council's employment. Then Councillor Mnir moved for a rplurn of information respecting office duties and arrangements. This was agreed In without discussion, sincl the (oiiucil passed to other business. Mr. George JohnMon, of the Wellington Woollen Company, died at his residence in Ingest re -street on Wednesday, after a long and painful illness. The decea^d leaves a widow and daughter. The Victoria College Student*.' Bazaar nas opened this afternoon in the college gymnMium by Mm. Newman.