HONESTY OF DUBLIN CABMEN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 325, 11 July 1879, Page 16

HONESTY OF DUBLIN CABMEN.

ternS BtlC3 ° DubHa ' reCcnt] y Pushed, there is an hoTesTv of SSf-n 08 T Cml men , tWQ - U reCOrds the t£S?X° i !? c t b T n ' a Class of meQ who are ha rd worked, pooily paid, and much abused. The Dublin Jarvey usually gets credit ter. fLV n arP - deC « VCr ' M J eitortin S unlawful fare &>» p2Sf^onX°^ g Jn S^ hOWeVer ' WiU Pr ° ve ™h in favour of More than three-fourths of the articles lost in Dublin cabs in the S'.JSS T gtt tO Castle -y ar(i Police office by the drWe^and volver, iS, i gIVCn '? TludßdT ludßd gold lin % s > bracelets, guns, revo lrers. opera glasses, and ether articles of much value. More than this, thirteen .overogns and sixteen half-sovereigns, given by fares Se^erl ** WCre *onfht to'th"^Castle 'by In the year 1878 there were within the police district 2 703 m? SC nTehlClevf-'n TehlCle vf-' ? dng an iQcreaße of 382 * 8 spared wfth ?he year lets rLYf- VCh A CIe X COnsistod of Ul2 hackney carriages, 864 caW f9O S tl Tl P hae + tODS; ' 131 jcb carria ges,and 96st a ge carriages (90 of the latter are tram cars). There were 2,830 licensed drivers being an increase of 260 as compared with the year 1877 * n ♦!. ,? g t he /^ ar tbere wer e 1,088 articles of property surrendered to the pohce by drivers, of which number 601 articles were claimed^by and given up to the owners at the police office, and 5 at the dSereSt station houses making a total of 606 articles claimed. The remainder were sent to the police store, Lower Castle Yard. The S surrendered included 477 umbrellas, 3 clocks, 2 gold rings 3 braelets and other articles of jewellery, 2 guns, 1 revofve^l else of surjS instruments, 4 hand muffs, 14 shawls, and 19 opera Masses ? 13 sovereigns and 16 half-sovereigns were received by driver^ in mistake far silver coins, and were surrendered; sof the sovereign^ Tand 1 half-sovereign were claimed by and given up to owners^ the remainder were sent into store. In twenty-five instances, bank notes gold, and silver amounting in all to £54 11s. »d. (exclusive o"ttS foregoing, were found in vehicles;, and surrendered Iby1 by These were all claimed except £4 3s. Bd., which was sent into store Recipients of property left rewards for drivers surrendering same to fi;^ course of their inquiries after property, ascertained thft the drivers had surrendered direct to owners 1 diamond bracelet 1 1 bit *™FT S a !? ' umbrellas ' 3 Portmanteau, 10 hand bags, I boxes, 6 coats, 1 eword, 1 f^awl, 1 rue 1 clock 1 writino^w 9 £?££& imr nn l a - 5 f f - 2 SA 111 o^iicleßwai C ch S h'.d feea forgotten in tfeeir T»faicl«, m addition to those above mentioned.