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Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 85, 12 April 1901, Page 4

Mr. Frederick Back, formerly of the New Zealand railway service, and who acted as a member of the present Midland Railway Commission in the early stages of its work, has just resigned his position as manager of the Tasmanian Railways, and been appointed to the directorate of the Chiliugoe Mining and Railway Company. He will also be Oio railway manager of the line now being constructed from* Cairns to Chilla^ne. It is understood (says the Melbourne Argus) that the engagement is for five years,- and that the salary is £2500 per annum, with a. residence. This is mor© than double the official salary Mr. Back had in Tasmania. The work of cbntinuing the railway from Motupiko down the Upper Motueka Valley, and thence "in the Tadmor Valley, has been commenced, and the probabilities are that in about eighteen months' time- (says the Nelson Colonist) passengers and mails will be carried to the Upper Tadmor, and that the coach service will start from there, and proceed by way of the Hope and Buller to Westport and Reefton, materially shortening the time which the journey at present occupies. By the same time much of the land will be settled and rendered productive, while indications point to the prospect of a coal trade being established. • Mr. J. E. Page, Town Clerk of Wellington, will take his departure for Sydney by the Tarawera to-morrow, en route for Europe. Mrs. Pago will accompany him on the trip, which is to extend to about the end of the year. Mr. Robt. Tait, jun., who has for some time acted as Mr. Page's assistant, has been appointed Acting-Town Clerk, and an arrangement has also been made with, the City Solicitor to attend at the office every • day and confer with the Mayor and also take charge of any matters of a legal character. .The Corporation- office staff will make Mr. Page a presentation before he leaves the office this evening. The Government offices throughout the colony will be closed on Friday, 24th May, as a mark of respect>tojbhe memory of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria. Mr. James L". Stevenson,' of Wanganui, has been authorised to act as a Maori interpreter of the "second! grade. Mr. fieorge Fordham, of the local 'Teiegraph department, well known in athietio circles",Tias been transferred to the Invorcargill $fficeV An alarm of fire was given at 7.55 evening, and the Fire Brigade seivo frvo reels to Molesworth-street, where a feident had noticed smoke rising from ovtx the Methodist schoolroom. It came, fcovever, merely from the flue of a copper boiler, • ( » The total amount of the city rales fc i the current year will not, it is announc*?, be larger than in the year just The annual estimates were approved of by the City Council last night, and the rates^ for tno year wiu be: — General, Is 3d; •Water, 4 per cent. ; hospital and charitable aid, 6& in the pound ; library, Id ; and the four special rates for interejl, sd, 4d, Id, and %d. The aggregate sum will be the same as in last year.' Ine position as to the balance-sheet is tlittt it is to be prepared by the 15th April, | according to the terms of the Act; Iho accounts will be audited as soon as possible after that date, and sent back to the Council as soon as possible after the 30th April. They will then' be published, and the Council must hold a special meeting within fourteen days to consider the balance-sheet. "Ratepayer" writes enquiring why the money raked by the City Council for the Adelaide-road street-widening scheme is still withheld, and he wants to know the reason for the vexatious delay. We find the position, to be shortly as follows: — The Corporation arranged for an advance of fI4B,UQO from the National Mutual Life Assurance Association for streetj widening purposes, the., money to be drawn as required, interest only to be paid on the money actually drawli and used. The whole of the money must, however, be drawn before the end of this year. A large number of properties along Adelaide-road and Riddiiord-street have already been aoquired, and negotiations are proceeding" for the acquisition of the others, but as various owners and leaseholders have to be dealt with it has been found ' impossible to conclude matters earlier. The Council has endeavoured to avoid taking land under the Publio Works Act if the purchase can be amicably arranged with ,the holders. Though a rate was struck as security for the money advanced it has never been levied, and is ndt included in the rates to be collected during the current year. The monthly meeting of the Camera Club was held last night, Mr. A. C. Gifford, Vice-President, in the chair. An interesting demonstration on the working of the Ozotype process was given by Mr. J. A. Heginbotham. The entries for the field day quarterly compete ■ tions numbered * twenty-four, and the j awards were as follows:— Sunshine, Miss W. Holt, 1; Portraiture, Mr. M'Gregor Wright 1, Mr. 1 Seed 2 and 3 ; field day, Mr. Seed 1, Mr. Geo. Wright 2, Mr. ' Tustin 3. The Nelson Colonist, commenting on Mr. E. M. Smith's venture in Taranaki ironsand and Mokau coal, compares its chances with those of Parapara, by no means unfavourably ■to the latter. The Colonist says that the rich hematite ore of Parapara offers no difficulties of treatment, "ships can lie a comparatively short distance from the shore, where thoy would be sheltered from prevailing winds, arid there, too, within a. very short distance of what has been described as a mountain of iron ore, limestone is available for flux, and only a few miles distant there are coal seams. The value of iron is about double vhat it was some few years back, and already the American combinations appear to be putting the price u§) Btill higher. ' It is announced in the Gazette thatr the following regulations under the Law Practitioners Act, 1882, are to oome into force as from the Bth April:— Candidates for the Barristers' Law Examination shall be permitted to take the subjects prescribed .for that examination in two sections — Jurisprudence and Constitutional History, Roman .uaw, and International Law and Conflict of Laws constituting one section, and the remaining law subjects constituting the other section ; and candidates shall have the option of taking Contracts and Torts, Real and Personal Property, and Equity, or any one or more of those subjects, in the first section in place of taking them in the second sec--tion ; and a candidate passing the first section shall be credited with such* one or more of such lost-mentioned subjects as he shall have passed in. Candidates for the Solicitors' Law Examination shall be permitted to take the subjects prescribed for- that examination iv two secPersonal Property, and Equity, or any tions — Contracts and Torts, Real and two of such subjects, constituting one section, and the subjects not passed in that section constituting the other section ; and a candidate passing in any two or more of the above-mentioned, subjects shall be credited with a pass in such subjects; The foregoing sections may be taken in any order. Candidates who have already passed* in one section * shall not be a*n'e6ted by the foregoing alterations. The Direct Supply Company, Auckland, has made a profit of £ r i6>% 10s 7d on tno past year's operations.