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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 116, 13 November 1900, Page 4

The Minister for Railways will leave for the South on Thursday for the purpose of completing his inspection of works of his department at Dunedin and Inveix'argilll. Afterwards Mr. Ward attends the Agricultural Shows at Dunedin and Oamaru, and he expects to return to Wellington at the end of tho month. * Mr. C. E. Maudsley, who pulls No. 2in ihe Senior Regatta four-oar crew from the Star Boating Sheds, has been transferred from Wellington. Mr. C. B. Trimhell will take bis seat in the boat. Commenting upon the action of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce in urging the Government to make arrangements to connect with tho Federal Mail Service from Sydney as being better than the present San Francisco mail service, the Christchurch Press says: — There is no doubt that a fairly good service cau be secured in the way suggested if we are to consider simply the question of the carriage of mail matter To our minds, however, ' the* true alternative to the San Francisco is the Vancouver service. It is necessary for us to keep up communication with the American Continent from this side if only for trade and tourist purposes. The great advantage of the Vancouver line is that it would bring us in closer touch with other portions of the Empire and foster our trade. It is a point in which the ■Wellington public are especially* interested, seeing that Wellington would be the natural port of call for th© service. . . An All-Red service, via Canada, would be highly popular, and we believe /would lead to an important development of trade. There is little , doubt it could be arranged if the Government would show itself disposed to entertain a proposal u 1 such a service in a lair and liberal spirit. The Minister of Railways, speaking at the banquet to the Hon. Mr. Mills last night, ' strongly urged, that the time had arrived, when New Zealand should, be represented in both the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The colony had spent thousands of pounds and sent its sons to fight and dieiior the Empire in South Africa. They could not have taxation without representation, and leaders of puolic opinion and representative men should advocate that New Zealand had come to such a position that it would not tolerate the present state of affaire any longer, but that it should be represented in both Houses of the British Parliament, and have a say in the future destiny of the Empire to which they were all so • loyally devoted* The hon. gentleman's remarks were loudly applauded. Mr. F. Garanaway, one of the senior officers in the local Telegraph Office, leaves Wellington to-day to fill a higher position in the Christchurch branch of the service. Last night he received a presentation from his fellow- officers in recognition of thedr pleasant association in the last few years. The charge against John Persson of having attempted to commit suicide at Poikakariki on 6th November was again called on in the Magistrate's Court this morning. As the 1 accused was not well enough to appear, a further remand till Monday next was granted. A large English mail via Brindisi is coming to hand by the Waikare, which is due from Sydney to-morrow evening. The telephone is a very convenient means of conveying a message, but it is a somewhat too free and easy method of intimating to a Supreme Court Judge that a Grand Juror caainot attend 1 to his duties. At any rate, Mr. Justice Edwards yesterday declined to accept such an off-hand apology, and stated that the juror wouild either have to attend himself or send some one who could give a satisfactory explanation of his absence. This morning a doctor's certificate was submitted to the effect that the juror was too ill to attend. His Honour therefore excused him. Judgment was given for plaintiffs in the following civil cases heard by Mr. W. R. Haselden, S.M., at the Magistrate's Qourti to-day: — KirkcaAd&=« and Stains v. W. F. Henderson, £3 14s, and costs £1 12s ; United Farmers' Co-opera-tive Association v. Joseph Taylor, £5 lls Id, costs £1 14s 6d ; same v. A. J. Giddings, £12 9s Bdi costs £1 10s 6d j Flockton and Co. v. William Fitzgerald, £1 4s 3d, -costs 5s ; same v. T. C. Peorce, £4 17s 3d, costs 7s. The partly-heard case of the Te Aro Loan. Company y. Eliza Walters, claim £29 14s 6d, again came before the Couit. Defendant urged" that the bill was not for £22 10s, as claimed, but for £10 only, and that she had paid £17 10s for it to the agent of the company, and lately, as no demand had been made upon her for a considerable time, she had burned the receipts. His Worship adjourned the case for a week, to allow the company's books to be produced. Mr. Bolton appeared for plaintiff and Mr. Holdship for defendant. The Mayor of Wellington (Mr. J. G. W. Aitken) was the only attendant today at the time and place "appointed for the regular meeting of the Dairy Regulations Committee. After waiting . some minutes the Mayor adjourned' the meeting to Monday next. It should be stated that the Government will take over the duties hitherto carried out by this committee as from January next. A circular addressed to the elders of the Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland, and issued by five elders from different churches, was distributed amongst members of the Synod on Tuesday (says the Otago Daily Times). It set forth that they had agreed to raise a sum of money to be awarded as bursaries to help desirable young men who wished to qualify for the ministry, but who might be in straitened circumstances. The opinion was expressed that the church was losing many of the finest young men who had the character, ability, and desire to preach the Gospel, because they could not face six years' unbroken course of study for lack of funds. At the same time, the church was compelled to replenish' its ranks from Home churches, arid from members of other denominations who offered to enter the Presbyterian ministry. The assistance of the elders of the church was therefore solicited. The money for the bursary or bursaries is to be handed to the Theological Hall Committee, to be awarded by competition or otherwise, as seems best to them. Whimsical bets on the outcome of the Presidential election caused considerable amusement in the Western States. If M'Kinley is elected (said an American journal some weeks ago), Henry Winsted, of Kinkley Junction, Indiana, is to engragia in a butting match with a fullgrown ram ; while should Mr. Bryan be the victor, John Burns, of the same town, will drink three pints of hard cider while standing on his head in a barrel. Arthur Williams, of Burr Oak, Michigan, has agreed to support the mother-in-law of his' nisighbour { George Stebbens, if the Democrats win ; while if they lose My. Stebbens will twist the tail of a vicious mule owned by Mr. Williams once a day foi three weeks. Thia strangest bet of all has been made by George Wren, of Deepwells, Wisconsin, and Samuel Cardurhig the next four years, and if the former, who is an ardent Bryanite, loses, he is to wear all his clothes backward during the next four years, and if he wins, the other man is to walk backward during Mr. Bryan's incumbency of office, and is to eat crow pie every day for breakfast.