The Gorge Contract

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 34, 31 August 1886, Page 2

The Gorge Contract

fpER OXITED PHRSS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, This Day.

The amount of the Gorge contract first named was wrong. It is really considerably below £79,000, but the Railway Department will not allow the exact sum to be known at present, as the contract will probably be modified in some essential particulars. There were 14 tenderers. The contract includes four miles through the gorge, but not all the bridges. It is expected the line will be opened from Napier to Wondville in February. The contract is first on the Wellington- Woodviile line of six miles, and embraces some of the roughest work no the whole Hue.

Captain Edwin telegraphs to-dny — Warnings for enles and rain have been sent to all stations.

In a ci*il case heard nt the last sitting of the Supreme Court in Napier, the amount in dispute w>s £'60. The loser of the case now finds that the conts come to over £59.

The following burgesses were proposed and seconded in accordance with the regulation under the Local Elections Act to-day, for seats in the Borough Council. Messrs J. Bishop, T. Evans and Gk W. Fowles, and as there were only three vacant seats to be filled the Keturning Officer, Mr Hill, declared the above candidates duly elected. The notification appears elsewhere.

We hear that Mr E. J. Duncan, of Wellington, will to-day lead to the altar of Hymen, Miss Strong, the daughter of a well-known Nelson merchant. Mr Duncan is already in Nelson preparing for the event, humour hath it that the lady is not altogether unendowed with wordiy goods, and that after the wedding the happy pair will take up their residence in Auckland.

Divorces are getting quite fashionable in Scotland (says Truth). The number of decrees granted last year by the Court of Session was the highest on record, being an increase of fourteen over the number during 1884. The average number of decrees between 1864 and 1874 was thirty.five; but in the following five years the average was fiftj-nine, while last year there were no fewer than eighty-five. In forty-seven casea the wife wa« petitoner.

Every one has a cure for sore throat, but simple remedies appear to be the most effectual. Salt and water is used as a gargle, but a little alum and honey dissolved in sage tea is better. An application of cloths wrung out of hot -water and applied to the neck changing as often as they begin to cool, has the most potency for removing inflammation of anything we ever tried. It should be kept up for a number «f hours ; during the evening is usually the convenient time for applyins this remedy.

A Cape Breton man shipped on board an Amencaa finning schooner for the voyage. After a few days out he was found to be attended by numerous satel-lites-so to speak — and the skipper caused him to be attached to the end of a rope and towed overboard for an hour or so. " Tonald" was telling his experience when he got home. " Tey wa« parteekler apout a few firmin whateffer," he said, " Why, Peter Crant, o' Mabow, ta mairchant, ta best mann in ta town, he hare 'em."

Things Worth Snowing' — To learn to think and act for yourself. To waste nothing — neither money, time, nor talent. If you have a place of business, to be found there when wanted. To be selfreliant, and not take too much advice, but rather depend on yourself. To keep alive in your bosom that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. To learn to saj no ; it will be of more service to you than to be able to read Latin. To do ail the good you can in the world, and make as little noise about it as possible. To stick ta your own opinion if jou have ene, allowing others, of course, the same liberty to stick to theirs.

The Rev. Dr 8., who is a prominent dirine in a city not far from New York, had been spending a few days en an island. On a certain morning he started For the bout in company with a friend. A porter followed with the doctor's valise. Arriving at the wharf, they found that the boat had gone before the time. Not aware of the clerical character of the company, the porter swore several shocking oaths in quick succession. * What do you think of that, doctor P" asked his friend. "Well/ said the doctor, slowly and impressively, " there are times when the services of a layman are mdiupensable."