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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 63, 12 September 1911, Page 8

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FOXTON, I2tli September. Arrived-^Queen of the South (11 a m.), from Wellington. KARAMEA, 12th September. Kairaki unable to enter, and proceeded south. LYtTELToX, 12th September. Sailed-^Aparima (11.S0 a.tn ), for Bluff, NAPIER, 12th September. Sailed-"Whakanta (12.15 p.m.), for Wellington, „j, ». MOTTJEKA, 12th September. Sailed— Matiaroa (11.45 a.m.), for Wellington.

A comparison made by the New Zealand Herald (quoted by the Post last evening) of the irate passages between the Acting-Mayor of Wellington atod th« Minister for Public Works over the tramway regulations and the polite courtesies exchanged between the Minister and the Auckland City Council over the Tramways Amendment Bill is apt to be misleading. The proposed tramway regulation* were regard' ed a« a serious attack on municipal right*,* the Tramway* Amendment Bill confers a benefit on the Auckland City Council, and on nobody eke. tte chiefprovision ie to enable licence fees for fcramcars ( under the Acb of last session lo be paid to the local authority, when that authority has delegated its tram* way management bo an outside com* pany. As no other city has don© thifi but Auckland, the returning of thanl* to the Minister By the Auckland City Council for this piece of legislation is intelligible on other grounds than those of common cotirtesy. .In response to the enquiry of a Preset reporter, the Mayor of Lyttelton (Mr. M. tT. Miller) said he was deeply grabified and more than pleased with thestatement in the Budget that the electrification of the tunnel was to be carried out at an early dabe. "About bwelve monbhs ago," said Air. Miller, "when I approached the Minister' of Railways in reference to the ventilation of the Lybtelton tunnel by forced draught, he informed me bhat that system had been thrown aside in view of the fact that hydro-electric plants were to be installed in various parts Of the Dominion, and that the Lake Coleridge scheme was to be started first. After installing electric power at the Addington Workshops, the electrification of the Lyttelton tunnel would take precedence of anything else. The question oi widening the tunnel sufficiently to enable two lines of rails to be put down was also under consideration. Lyttelton is also badly in need of a new railway station, bub I was given to understand, that thab mabter would have to be held over until the line was electrified, when it would receive due consideration, there being a. probability that the position of the station would have to be altered. At all evenbs, bhe definite announcement that the tunnel is to be electrified in the near future is very satisfactory and pleasing to Lyttelton people." * "What ie billiards?" asked Councillor 1 Lucas ab laet meeting of the Thames Borough Council, when ail application for renewal of a license for a billiard saloon was* before the council for consideration, "Ie pool billiards? The reason I ask ie that pool appears to be the most favoured game, and that seems to me. to be more a < game of chance, than skill." Councillor Deeble said that the Appeal Court had decided Otherwise, holdiftg that pool was a. game of skill, bo that the council could not do anything in the matter. "Well, there is a, good deal of chance about it, too,!' replied Councillor Lucas, "it all depends upon the marble you get." "It all depends on how you play after you get the marble," returned Councillor Deeble, "and as the Judges of the Appeal Court have de^ oided that il ie a game of skill bhe council cannot say bhat- they arc- wrong." After further remarks ib was, reports the Thames Star, decided to confer with the Inspector of Police on the point, and to renew the license as applied for.