BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 10510, 31 December 1897, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Messrs J. H. Lowe (chief engineer of working railways) and T. E. Rotheram (locomotive superintendent) have gone to Tataekara to conduct a departmental inquiry into the circumstances under which a brake van became derailed on the day of the opening of the railway to Woodville. The Wellington Land Board have approved of the subdivision and prices of an estate of 300 acres purchased by the Government under the Land for Settlements Act for the purposes of establishing workmen’s homes at Johnsqnville. It was stated that there had been many inquiries for the land, and that as the prices would bo about £9 to £lO per acre! a workman would find it cheaper to purchase a house and land in the estate than'to rent a house in Wellington. Some fifty men were now working on the estate. M. Lyons, mine manager of the Record Reign Opal Mining Company, Mount Peel, • has been arrested for stealing opal-bearing stone, and was to answer the charge at Ashburton yesterday. Dr E. A. Nathan (a son of Mr L. E. Nathan, who is now revisiting Christchurch after an absence of many years in England) goes Home as surgeon of the Gothic, but intends to return and take up the practice of his profession in the colony. Dr Nathan, who is an old Christ College boy, is an M.D. and B.So. of London University.