TOWN EDITION. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1887.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 324, 22 December 1887, Page 2

TOWN EDITION. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1887.

It will be seen by our Parliamentary tele* grams that in the rush of legislation through the House the Midland Rail way hue not been neglected. The Premier fctated last night that the Company had accepted tbe terms agreed to by ihe House with the exo'ption of some details with regnrd to the running )owers, but auy difficulties in this respect ere likely to be overcome, the Government being quite prepared to make concessions. The necessary Bill for granting power to enter into a contract waa then introduced and paßStd through all its stagf n, so that wo may now hope that the Company will be entering into hrge contracts during the coming winler season. The result of the notice which appeared in our columns last night respecting the waste of water that hns been going on of late is that the pressure bas to-day gone up from 50 lbs to 95 lbs to the squnra mob. This is S3 far satisfactory, but a yet furth-r improvement must be effected for thore is aiill FomethiDg like 20 lbs of waste going on. At the B.M. Conrt yesterday afternoon, before Mr TurnbulJ, R.M., two boys named Butler and Adnmp, aged 14 and 8 years respectively, were charged with stealing two chickens and a sack from the premises of Major Aikinson. Ad«ms was defended by Mr Kingdon. Butler wes Btntenced to one month's imprisonment, to be kept apart from (he other prisoners, and -Adonis wns committed to St. Mary's Industrial School, bi* mother to pay 5s a week towards bis main'enance. — Inspector Atchexoa then applied that Daniel and Samuel Adams, aged respectively 7 and 5 yearc, should be sfnt to St. Mary's Industrial School on tbe ground tbat their mother was not a fit person to have charge of them. An order was made to tbat effect, tbe mother to pay 5b a week for e»cb, ahe having stated that sho was in receipt of that amount for them from the Government. A correspondent writes from Dovrdale: — A meeting was held at the Dovedale schoolroom on Monday evening of those interested in the Post Offioo at Dovedale. Mr W. Win waa in tho'chsir, and called upon Mr Jesse Lammas to explain the object of the meeting 1 . Mr Lamm«B briefly s'a'ed that he had been pressed to undertake the du'ies of Postmaster for twelve ™nths to ascertain whether it would work s«iß^6c!ori/y, and he had now kept tbe office three y;ars without any remuneration whatever, and wished that the residents would get some olhcr person to undertake tbe duties, but no one could be pemndod to do s\ The meeting (.hereupon passed a resolution that tho Chairman have an interview with Mr Kerr upon the subject, and explain tbat the Dovedale mails are far larger than either thoao of Thorps or Stanley Brook, and that the Postmasters in both places get salaries, and why should not the Dovedale postmaster, seeing that the . office is ton miles from Wakefield and nearly five miles from Thorpe, and therefore if the office is clos-d some of

tho rendentß would be 7£ tuilcs from a Post Office. We understand that a telegram has been received stating that the West Coast coach broke down on Grassy Flat, in consequence of which it will not arrive in town until nearly U o'clock to-night A ssrvice of song entitled " The Queen's Rfsolve" is advertised for this evening at tho Port Sunday School. There should bo a good audience not merely on account of the low charge for admission £vig. 6d), but. as an encouragement to those who give so much tima and labor to tho Sunday School at the Port-. A Pbacti,ce of " Maritana " will be held at 7-30 to-night. The final contest for the Nelson Rowing Club's trial four trophies was rowed off at 7 o'clock this morning between the crews I stroked by Frazer and Worsley, who have already rojyed two dead heats, and after a hard struggle resulted in a win for the latter by about half a length. The nameß of the winners are, Symons bow, Shallcrass No. 2, Mowat No. 3, Worsley stroke. The half yearly meeting of shareholders in the Enterprise Gold Mining Company wjll be held this evening at 8 o'clock. Mb Mather?, agent of the New Zealand Bible, Tract, and Book Society, has opened a temporary depot in the premises of Mr JBrown, photographer, Hardy street, Nelson, with a splendid assortment of Bibles, Prayer Books, Hymn Books, Gift and Prize Books. Special discounts to Libraries, Sohools, Ac. Annuals, Christmas and Birthday cards ? and Wall cards in great variety. Inspection invited.— AnyT.