CLAIM FOR COMMISSION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1911, Page 8

CLAIM FOR COMMISSION.

Before Dr. M'Arthur, S.M., at the. ! Magistrate's Court yesterday, Walter Axel Evenson and Charles Jackson, trading as the "Wellington Business Exchange," hotel broken, claimed £75, from William J. Williams, eettler, of Karaka Bay, as remuneration or commission alleged to be due for negotiation and sale of the lease and goodwill of the Empire. Hotel, Feilding, owned by defendant. Mr. A. Gray appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. T. Young for defendant. After a partial hearing, the case wae adjourned, and resumed this morning. The hearing of evidence was concluded and judgment was reserved till Tuesday > next.

At Foxton, a young man named Hamilton, aged 21 years, was to-day remanded to JPalinerst-on North, on a charge oi having committed, a serious onence against a little girl. Dr. A. M "Arthur, S.M., will leave for Wangainii on Wednesday uext, in connection wiiii a .Hallway Appeal .Board ease. Me will be absent till the iollowing Saturday. When the burning Parisiana went down at sea, she carried with her the trucks and equipment' for the new cans now being built by the Wellington City Council. The loss is much more serious than would appear from the mere statement of the lact. The Tramways Department has long been in need of mortj cars. Six single-truck cars are being converted into combination cars, and it was for these the trucks were chiefly intended. The bodies are practically complete for three of the six, but will have to wait for the trucks for another couple of months. The conversion of the box cars took them for the time being out of active service, when the demands of traffic were for more cars altogether. At present the department has all its cars in commission, and when a special rush comes it is extremely difficult to meet it. Such, for instance, was the case when the volunteers were being taken out to Karori, and again on Monday last, when several requests for special cars had to be refused. Laet night the 5.6 o'clock car for Seatoun ran off the rails and there was a minor mishap to an Island Bay car on the Kent-terrace section. These accidents, which might happen any time, nearly dislocated the wiiole traffic of the tramway system. The Karori extension line is likely to be open in April, and the Wadestown line about the middle of the year. More cars will be required for these branches of the system, and the rest of the service will want a reserve of cars for emergencies. Auckland has now over a hundred cars, but Wellington has to be content with a score less. It seems highly probable that an extensive building and rebuilding programme will have to be undertaken by the council before long. There is, at any rate, ample accommodation now with the approaching completion of the Thorndon tram shed. The Labour Party in Auckland intends (says the Star) putting forth a special effort in connection with the local as well as the Parliamentary elections this year. The secretary of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Labour Party, speaking to a Star representative, eaid that organisation had been proceeding apace in Auckland, and it w-as believed that the party was now strong enough to return direct Labour representatives at all the coming elections. "We want to be in the same position in Auckland as are the workers in Wellington," said Mr. Walsh. "There the Labour Party has been strong enough to return Labour representatives to all the local bodies, as well as to the House of Representatives. At the municipal elections in April we purpose nominating at least three or four La-bour candidates for the Auckland City Councdl. Likewise in connection with the Harbour Board, Hospital Board, and other local bodies, we intend endeavouring to secure direct representation. In, this connection the different trades unions have been asked to submit names of suitable persons to the Auckland branch of the Labour Party, and the selected candidates will be duly announced. The party intends putting up a big fight all through New Zealand at the general elections in November, and organising work is being quietly but thoroughly carried out in every quarter. It is probable that Labour candidates will con- ] test all the Auckland city and suburban seats, and we are confident of carrying the Labour colours to victory in many electorates in the Dominion." Messrs. Wallace and Gibson, of Willis- | street, draw attention to the prices at which they are offering gentlemen's goods; also the reductions made are on their regular stock. The reductions will be aJjgwed for,_a few djyr§ laager. " j