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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 128, 26 November 1897, Page 5

The work of completing the railway between Mangatainoka and Woodville is being pushed on, and the formal opening will take place on Saturday, the 11th prox., instead of Monday the 13th, if the pits from which the ballast is being obtained are not flooded during the next fortnight. The alteration of the date has been decided upon in order to allow members of Parliament, who will he sitting on the Monday, to be present at the opening ceremony at Woodville. The refreshment rooms at Woodville are approaching completion, and the new sidings at that station are in a forward state. The Truant Inspector (Mr. J. Varnham) had quite- a field-day at the Magistrate's Court this morning, when no less than 14 rases were brought before Mr. Greenfield. One of the cases was forestalled by the police, the boy concerned being sent to the Industrial School ; another was adjourned, and the remaining dozen defendants were couvicted and fined 2s eaoh, with 7s costs. Parents generally do not seem to be aware that they are liable to a fine of 2s for every week a child, is absent from school without sufficient excuse, but this morning His Worship . made the 2s fine general, instead of increasing it according to the different periods of absence. All sorts of excuses were advanced in Court, where the mothers appeared in nearly every case. Some of the children were admittedly truant-players. Others were kept at home " to help mother." One boy had to do housework, others refused to go to school, and sore hands, cut fingers, poverty, lack of boots, and illness were other causes for absence advanced. Parents were advfted iv several cases that they should have obtained proper leave from the school authorities. The children whose parents were fined bore the names of Cunningham, Tolly, Baroham, Davis, Prestidge, Bradley, Henry, Andrews, Mncfarlane, Blandford, Bourke, and Cate. Mr. Rolleston represented the Education Department. There wasa lively runaway along Mannersstreet into Courtenay-place yesterday afternoon, by which a man, a gig, a cab, a horse, a youngster, and a fence a{ different places along the route got badly mixed. The most serious damage was that done to the cab. The man was a bit bruised, but the youngster escaped without hurt. It must have been a knowing horse, for it parted company with its gig just outside the repairing factory of Messrs. Rouse & Hurrell. In Sheffield, where the late Mr. T. Tallis Trimnell was formerly organist and choirmaster to the principal church, the news of his death created general sorrow, and immediate steps were taken to honour his memory on the following Sunday by selecting works of his for performance in the course of the services at the various churches. The Church of England, it appears, is a, greater offender than any other religious body in the matter of ohurch lotteries. At the sitting of the Nelson Diocesan Synod a clerical member, in moving that the General Synod should be urged to prohibit application for lottery licenses by members of the Church of England, gave these figures, which he said were taken from Hansard : — Church of England, 27 ; Church of Rome, 25 ; Presbyterian Church, 3. The motion failed to pass, as also did an amendment condemning lotteries, raffle*, and other devices for raising funds for Church purposes. Messrs. F. W. Arbon and H. E. Mowbray have been appointed officers uuder the Fisheries Conservation Act for the counties of Hutt, Horowhenua, Wairarapa North and South, Pahiatua, Oroua, Manawatu, Kiwitea, and Pohangina, and for all the town districts and boroughs in those counties. They are also appointed rangers under the Animals Protection Act for the Wellington district. Amongst the cargo of the Taranaki, now iv port, is a considerable portion of the plant for the water gas installation about to be made at Dannevirke by Mr. J. Watt, on behalf of the Balclutha Water Gas Company. The buildings connected with the works are already erected, and the installation is expected to be completed by Christmas. Early in the new year Mr. Watt will begin a similar installation in the township of Pahiatua, which will be completed in three months, and a plant afterwards laid down at Woodville. A fortnight ago a consignment of the new pipes for gas mains arrived in the colony, and they will probably be used in Some of these installations. They are made of paper-pulp and fibre, and successfully resist the action of the strongest acids, while they may be cut or planed as required. The recent petroleum find near Greymouth is important, inasmuch as the quality of the oil is said to be much superior to that of any yet found in the colony. A sample sent to Mr. J. Watt, of the Balclutha Water Gas Company, which is a large consumer of crude oil in the manufacture of gas, is highly spoken of, and the company is prepared to give a large order for the oil if it can be supplied at a reasonable price. "The Derby Winner" still runs its nightly course at the Opera House, and bids fair to hold the boards for some time, last night the theatre was packed in all parts, and the audience followed the fortunes of Lord Desborough and his wife and the Derby candidate with intense interest, and marked its sense of the villain's conduct in the most unmistakable manner. The love-making of Mr. Bland Holt as Dr. Streatfield, and Mrs. Holt as the Duchess of Milford, is most amusing, and they are well supported by the rest of the company, some of the strongest members of which are behind the 'scenes! Their effort** are very apparent in the beautiful scenery and stage appointments, which are a triumph of scenic art. "Tue Derby Winner" is billed for three more sights. Telephone offices are now open at Peep-o'-Day, Pemberton, and Rangiwahia, all in the Wellington district. The hours of attendance are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the office will be closed on Sundays and holidays. Telegrams are delivered regularly. The membership of the Natives' Association ttill continues to increase in a steady manner. With 28 proposals made at the last meeting the roll will stand at 393. The number put on at the last nine weekly meeting* has been 270, or an average of 30 each week. The Nelson Diocesan Synod, which has been sitting during the last week, has rejected a proposal to grant women parochial privileges, such as voting at parish meetings, but has adopted the suggestion of the Lambeth Conference that wherever possible there should be formed as part of local church organisations committees whose work should be to study social and industrial problems from the Christian point of view, assist in creating .and strengthening public opinion in regard to those matters, and promote a more active spirit of social service as part of Christian duty. By an inadvertence Mr. J. E. Read was mentioned last night as one of the. performers at the Natives' Association concert of the previous evening. Mr. Read had found himself unable to attend the concert owing to illness. Mr. C. Fred. Bcott Maundrell, for many years an officer iv the Union Steam Ship Co., and now chief officer in theservice of the China Navigation Co., Shanghai, who has been studying at the Trinity House Navigation and Steam Schools, Wellington, has passed bis examination for a certificate of competency as master of a foreign-going ship in the mercantile marine. All those who are interested in horses and traps are reminded of the great sale on Saturday next of horses, brakes, omnibuses, and harness by A. G. Tame & Co. on account of Mr. Bell, the proprietor, full particulars of which axe advertised, — A»vx.