The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JUNF 21, 1886.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1720, 21 June 1886, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. MONDAY, JUNF 21, 1886.

A cablegram has been received in the Colony stating that the firstfsection of the Midland Railway, thirty miles in length, has been " let " in London. Seeing, however, that the company has not yet obtained its charter, and that as yet there is not such a thing as a working survey of the* line in existence, we cannot quite understand the announcement. Besides, it is most improbable that any contract would be let except upon specifications framed in the* Colony, and duly approved of by the Minister 1 of Public Works. If the meaning of '.the message is that the company have arranged to send out at once the plant and labor requisite to put thirty miles of the line under construction, the intelligence will not be received over joyfully by a large class in the Colony. We rather prefer to believe that there is nothing in the statement. Heavy rain fell during nearly the whole of Saturday night, and continued at intervals throughout yesterday. Towards evening the rivers began to rise, and as the glass still stands low there is not much chance of the weather taking up for some hours at least. The Nelson coach managed to reach here at the usual hour yesterday afternoon. The concert held in the'TJnited Methodist Free Church on Thursday evening last was successful in every way. The weather was not very enticing, bat in spite of this drawback the attendance was very good, and to judge by the applause accorded to the different singers their efforts were highly appreciated. Mr Wilbj who presided, made an excellent chairman, and the choir was under the able leadersh^k^f Mr R. E. Green. The anthems "victory," and " I Was Glad," as also the glee " Hail Smiling Morn," were capitally given the rendering of the latter being especially commendable. Space will not permit of as full a reference to the programme* as it deserves, but of the lady vocalists Miss Moller, Miss Brown, and Mesdames Sampson, and Scantlebury acquitted themselves very agreeably, and were warmly applauded. There were one or two omissions from the programme owing to unavoidable absence, but the gentlemen who took part werje Messrs Penney, Green, Lawn, Dunn, Casley, and Bowater, who were each and all very successful in their efforts. ' A recitation, ably given by Mr King completed the programme, and after a few congratulatory remarks from the chairman and the Rev. Mr Penney, votes of thanks were passed to Mrs W. Dunn, who presided very efficiently at the harmon- j ium, to the Choir and Mr Green, and in an especial manner to the ladies and gentlemen of other denominations who had so kindly given their valuable services on the occasion. The Rev. Mr Penney then pronounced the Benediction, and brought a very pleasant evening to a close. It is expected that the new driving wheel for the Keep-it-Dark Company will be in working order by the end of the current month, immediately upon which the stampers will be once more set in motion. His Lordship the Bishop of Wellington held a Confirmation Service in the Catholic Chapel at 11 a.m. yesterday, when the Sacrament wss administered to a large number of children. There was a very numerous congregation present, and His Lordship delivered a most eloquent and instructive exhortation. Last evening the Bishop again preached to a crowded congregation, after which the ceremony of the reception of the Children of Mar/ was perforated, the Service closing with the Papal Benediction, pronounced by His Lordahip. In the course of his remarks Bishop Redwood alluded to (he urgent need which existed for a new presbytery in Reefton, expressing the hope that the well-known generosity of the Roman Catholics of Inangahua, which ! had already provided one of the handsomest churches in his diocese, would combine once more to provide this last want of the parish. , Under the heading of the "Theßuller . Lion " the Wellington correspondent of the Grey Star *ays : — Matters political an new so tame in Wellington that members have taken up English politics by way of divarshun. Mr F. Buckland asked permission to mention a matter which he cuimdered a breach oi privilege. A tela-

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