BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 12885, 7 August 1906, Page 8

BREVITIES.

A hairdresser in Wellington was yesterday fined £5 and costs for failing to close his shop at eight o’clock, the magistrate remarking “ I have done with small penalties in these cases.” A ten-mile section of the Midland Railway, from Montipoko to* Tadmor, was unofficially opened yesterday, some 500 persons proceeding from Nelson to Tadmor, which is thirty-four Miles distant The fertility of the country, the prospect of a considerable timber trade’ and of mineral traffic were alluded to by speakers, and the desirability from ia colonial point of view of expeditiously extending the line as far as would enable the journey from Nelson to Greymouth to bo completed in one day was urged. The Mayor of Timaru last evening con'•ehed a special meeting of the Council to state the result of the communications with Mr Carnegie re a grnntfor a public library. The final result is that Mr Carnegie offers e-3,0'0 for building a library if the Council nrovide a site, and dispose of the present Mechanics’ Institute and devote the proceeds to the purchase of books, and thereafter maintain the library efficiently. The mayor proposes to accept the offer, and ■>dd £6.000 or £7,000 to erect new rmmi- ) ip«d offices and a town hall in a connected molding, with combined facade, on a site the Council own opposite the post office. The councillors, with one exception, approved of both proposals. At a meeting of the Wakanui, Road Board a letter was read from the Christchurch Technical Association asking the Board to bring under the notice of farmers the classes for instruction in wool-classing, ■’he Board resolved to recommend a system of travelling lectureships. The Hamilfcon-Hastie-Garmong mission has now been going ‘on for four weeks, yet the attendance at the Tabernacle was up to the usual last Evening, when Mr O. H. Hamilton's subject was ‘ls there a Hell?’ If men believed in Jesus Christ they believed in Hell. The New Testament told us that there was a Heaven, and that Christ woiild save them from Hell. A song service was rehdered, by the choir, under the leadership of Mr Alexander, and Mr J. P. Garmong sang ‘ Going of judgment.’