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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 70, 22 March 1912, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL, ■ ' ♦ The Postal authorities advke that the e.s. Maheno, which left Sydney at noon on Wednesday, for AuoKland, has on board an Australian mail, also an English mail via Suez. ' The Wellington portion is due to arrive hero By Main Trunk on Monday next. Consideration will bo given by the City Reserves Committee in due course to an application by the Southern Footbal) Club for a piece of Town Belt in Uuesell-fcerraoe for the purpose of building a gymnasium thereon. A lease at a nominal rental was asked for. Anyone visiting the Queen's Wharf yesterday afternoon could not help being impressed 'with the extent of the work in progress, and the importance of the operations on. the harbour front. On practically every tee there were huge piles of merchandise awaiting shipment, and between the wharf gates and the outer tee there was a maze of delivery, vane, lorries, and other vehicles. At one period during the afternoon no lees than 62 vohicles were engaged in handling cargo. With regard to the appeal case, Merchants' Service Ouild v. Inspector LeCren, it is understood that the Arbitration Court offered to hear the appeal either on Thureday afternoon or Friday afternoon, but Counsel were not ready to go on with the case. It will have iv stand ov&r, therefore, until the next sit' tinge of the Court. Ther« was no discussion at the City Council last evening on the- recommendation that a Sunday tramway service be maintained on Good Friday, double fnrcs to be charged ; also that special cays should be run to connect with trains, the fares to be 6d on such special cars. The recommendation was adopted. Kh'kcaklie and Staine, Ltd., are offering at very moderate prices a splendid lot of unmade blousf pieces id Ihifashionable Magyar s-tyle. Tlk>s>o ai'e [ -advertised ts-da}'..— 44yA,