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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 26, 28 January 1876, Page 2

Ti^B. formal Opening of the railway will .take place to-morrow, when a train will leave town at 11 o'clock.* The Superintendent, we understand,, has invited the members of the Provincial Executive, the Provincial Councillors, and the heads of departments to accompany him, and having arrived at the so-called Foxhill terminus, his Honor will declare the line open for traffic, and the train will return to tbwn. , > . . We are glad to learn that telegraphic communication between the islands is restored onde more,. and '.that; ihei testa . made prove the cable to be in good order. > , -Mb. Sbapley, the agent pf the Cable Extension Cohlpiany, arrived" by the Hawea this morning, and, accompanied by Mr Cross, the harbormaster, and Mr Maling, started at- once for Wakapuaka to examine the site for the shore end, of: the Australian-New. Zealand cable. '-„' „-.- x : The annual meeting of the trustees of the; Nelson Savings Bank was- held last evening, the following being present :—Messrs Kingdon (Vice-Present), IL and O. Curtis, J. P. Black, R. Pollock, J. R. TJodson, I. M. Hill,- and R. Lucas. The balance sheet, as it appears in out advertising columns to-day, wa|s read by. the manager^Mr. H. D. Jackson, and adopted. It. was decided to erect a suitable building for Bank purposes in Trafalgar street, the Work ' to ;be commenced without delay. The following resolution was passed unanimously :— *' The Trustees desire tp record i heir great regret at the loss from their number during the past year of J^r Samuel Strong, and their apprepia*-., tion of the very great .loss the> institution has 'sustained by the vacaiiby in the Board created by the death»6f one who from the date of the opening of the/Bank fifteen, years ,since gave such earnest and unremitting attention to its interests." - - "''""."' v/ The plant of another of the com--panies resulting from, the Wangapeka reef mania;, isto be disposed of, ,Mr Mabin haying Jbeen- instructed by themanager of the Waimea Quartz Crushing Compahytp sell' by auction, as will ,be"»een by advertisement, the machinery.. , belonging to; that company, on the same • day as he sells the Culliford Company's . plant. v . For .the benefit of shareholders \ [ that others interested^ it is a pity that these ..had. not, Wound up long since and the value of ;,the machinery ' realized in- , stead of its being allowed for several years to lie idle and deteriorate from weatheV and other causes.