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Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1898, Page 5

' The Railway Department is feeling Very much the scarcity of rolling stock, more 1 particularly in the Wellington and Hawkes Bay districts. The wet weather has delayed the shearing in those districts, and the ' consequence has Wen that during the past week or two th^e has been a great rush of wool. The Department has been making great efforts to cope with the traffic, but owing to the want of trucks it has only, been partly successful. TL\e workshops are running nicrht and day, turning out new rolling stock and a number of new waggons will shortly be available for the Wollingtori-Hawkes Bay section. One drunkard was the only person brought before the Magistrate's Court to-day — Rebecca M'Laughlin — who was fined 10s, with the option of 48 hours' imprisonment. At the Mount Cook Police Staiiori Mr. John Kays, J.P., convicted and discharged another woman for a like offence. Dr. MacGregor, Inspector-General of Hospitals and Charitable Institutions, is absent from Wellington, and consequently the Chairman of the Benevolent Trustees (Mr. Baylis) has been unable to interview him yet as to the necessity of holding a Government enquiry into the circumstances under which the Master and Matron of the Ohiro-road Home received the Williams bequest. The Government is to be asked to open the Belgrove-Motupiko section of the Midlaud Railway for passenger traffic on Agricultural Show day. Mr. Napier Bell, the well-known engineer, is to visit Nelson early in the coming year, in order to make a report for the Government upon the condition of the Nelson Harbour, with a view to its improvement. ' The Melrose Borough Council spent three hours last night discussing the proposed new bylaws. A difference of opinion occurred in reference to the bylaw fixing the width of the tyres of vehicles, and the Council adjourned without coming to a decision on tLe subject. It is stated that Mr. Joseph Taylor, of Bainham, will come out as a Seddonian candidate for Motueka at the next general election, even if Mr. Roderick M'Kenzie should stand again. The Tuapeka Times states that Mr. J. E. Palmer, of Mount Stuart Estate, will contest the Bruce seat in the Government \ interest. i»~r. James Bull, one of the most popular and prominent settlers in the Ran- ! giUKei, came back to Wellington last night from a lengthened visit to Europe. x--s many friends will be glad to hear that he is in the best of . health and spirits. The Marine Department has accepted the tender of Messrs. W. Cable and. Co., at £310, for making a new funnel and, a new after winch for the Hinemoa and overhauling the vessel's boilers. The unsuccessful tenderers were : — Messrs. S. x.u-e and Sons (Limited), £327 10s ; E. Seager, £36* : D. Robertson and Co., £340. One of Mrs. Ritson's four-wheeled brakes, laden with people bound for the races, was backed by the horses to-day on to the footpath in front of Mr. F. Wise's hairdressing saloon, Willis-street. The brake collided with a heavy castiron lamppost, snapping it off like a carrot, and causing it to fall into the plateglass "window, which it smashed to atoms. Several bystanders had a narrow escape. At a meeting of the Port Nicholson Yacht Club held last evening, presided over by Mr. G. Mcc (Commodore), five new members were elected. The consideration of the new rules occupied the meeting till a late hour, and as half of them have yet to be gone through, it was decided to hold another meeting later on to deal -with the rest. " One Who Knows " writes : — " In a local in your issue of the 25th inst. I am isurprised at a statement that would infer -what I distinctly deny to be a fact — vifc., that the Women's Social and Political League were responsible for the presenta- j tion of cauliflowers at the close of last session." The annual synod' of the Wellington district of the Wesleyan Church will be opened in the Wesley Church School on Tuesday next. There will be about 15 ministers in attendance, including the Rev. W. G. Parsonson, of Napier, who is this year President of the Conference. On Wednesday the .ministers will be joined by about the same number of laymen, when the financial busi- i mess of the district will be gone into. The Royal Insurance Company is first in the field with the calendars for 1899. The local agents (Messrs. W. M. Bannatyne and Co.) send us a copy of the company's wall calendar, arranged in weekly blocks, with a space for memoranda allotted to each day ; also a handsome blotting book. The Christmas number of the Canterbury Times of which a copy has been forwarded to us is an excellent production for the small sum at which it is sold. It really consists of two separate parts, the one purely literary, and the other illustrated. The illustrations, which are accompanied by written descriptions, include sea and inland scenery, gorges, Maori groups, and other features of New Zealand landscapes. Many of the prints are reproductions of the pictures of Mr. S. H. Moreton, and the illustrated portion alone would make it worth while to secure a copy. The half contains stories by Rading writers, such as G. R. Sims, iuauiville Fenn, and Robert Buchanan, together with other interesting matter of a miscellaneous character. The Victoria Hall, just erected on Ade-laide-road, will be opened on Wednesday evening with a plain and Jancy dress "social," under the auspice's of the Newtown Brass Band. A three days' native regatta and aquatic carnival will be held at North Shore during the Auckla&d Exhibition, the dates fixed being 28th and 31st December and 4th January. The preliminary programme appears in another column. Our readers are reminded of the harbour excursion this evening by the Rotorua, in aid of the Boys' Institute. The steamer is to leave the Queen's Wharf at 8 o'clock. The < fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Britannia Lodge of Oddfellows will be held on Monday evening. Barrett's Kinematograph, which opens at Johnsonville this evening, is said to be one of the most up-to-date machines that has ever visited the colony. Miss Beatrice Vartha, late bolo pianist to the Bessie Doyle concert company, advertises that she is prepared to take pupils. The New Zealand Pacific Masonic Lodge will hold its regular meeting on Monday evening. The Wellington Garrison Band announces its second moonlight marine excursion to Day's Bay for Wednesday evening next> in the B.s. Duchess. Messrs. Baker Bros, insert elsowhera their weekly list of properties for Bale. They have also had placed' in their bands for private sale four building sections, which they advertise can be bought on very easy lermß. The firm reports the sale within the last few days of an acre of land in Rolleston-street, a section in Kent-ter-race (40 x 100), and a four-roomed cottage in Tory-street, at satisfactory prices. The Viking brand of lemon squash, a cooling and refreshing summer drink, guaranteed to be made from pure fruit, witkout the addition of flavouring essences or any deleterious ingredients, is advertised in this issue. It can be obtained either clear or cloudy from the wholesale agents, Messrs. E. H. Crease and Son (Limited).