WELLINGTON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 194, 16 August 1881, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

(Ft on pnr own correspondent.) [By Telegraph.] Monday, 10-25 p.m. The following is a summary of the Public Work« Estimate* :— lmmigration, £24,588; Public Workg Department, £42,772; Railways, £1,017,636; SurTeya of new lines of railway, £4000; Roads, £262,763; Land purchases. £877.623; Waterworks on goldflelda, £22,000; Telojjraph extension, £11,154; Public buildings, £190,906; Lighthouses, £34,545; Contingent defence, £84,000; Charges and expenses of Iraisinar loans, £14,111. Total,

£1,765,989. The public buildings include the following:— Courthouses, gaols, polide stations, and lock-ups, .£80,106 (£6637 already expended); Post and Telegraph offices, £10,680 (£1647 [expended); Customs, £900; Survey offices, £1000; Lunatic Asylums, £60,720 (£25,137 expended); Hospitals, £2500; School buildings, £85,000 (£3700 expended); Lighthouses, &c., £19,400 (£596 expended); Harbor works, £22,145 (£6030 expended.) Legal and other expense incurred by the Government in defending the Brogden claims, £3000 ; Roads in Native districts, £10,441 ; Roads through lines recently purchased, £7883 ; Lighthouse, Waipapa Point, £6500; Light in Hauraki Gulf, £3800; Completion of Egmont Lighthouse, £800; Harbor defences, £9000, The following are the Nelson Public Works Estimates. Roads and Bridges — x Takaka Road m ... 21 Takaka Tramway ... . . 300 Bridge over Wairoa (?) in Waimea West ... ... 656 Nelson to Tophouso and Tarndale ... 3000 Nelson to Greymouth and Westport ... ... ... 16,500 Bridge over Owen ... ... 3000 Bridge over Matiri ... ... 4500 Bridge over Inangahua at Reefton ... ... ... 2323 Bridge over Little Grey ... 5000 Bridge over Ahaura.,. ... 191 Bridge over Waiau (estimated cost £10,000) required for this year ... . . SOOO Roads to open up lands before sale — Cobden via Coal Creek to Seventeen Mile Beach „. .. 1500 Hampden, Matikitaki to Walker's station Maruia ... 2000 Grey Valley to Terema kau via Bell Hill 4000 Wakefield to Stanley Brook via Pigeon Valley 800 Aorere Valley (23£ miles to open 25,060 acres),.. ... 1500 Public Buildings — Court House Takaka .. 150 Post Office Colling wocd ... 560 Lighthouses, fyc. — Light in Tory Channel ... 300 Beacon French Pass ... 700 Collingwood harbor work 9 ... 350

Holloway's Pills. — With the darkening days and changing temperatures the digestion becomes impared, the liver disordered, and the mind despondent unless the cause of the irregularity be expelled from the blood and body by such an alterative as these Pills. They directly attack the source of the evil, thrust out all impurities from the circulation, restore the distempered organs to their natural state, and correct all defective or contaminated secretions. Such an easy means of instituting health, strength, and cheerfulness should be applied by all whose stomach are weak, whose minds are I much harassed, or whose brains are overworked. Holloway's is essentially a blood tempering medicine, whereby its influence reaches the remotest fibre of the frame, and so effects a universal good.

It is stated, on reliable authority, that M David Frpudfoot, the well-known contractor of Dunedin, has no less than 700 New Zen land workmen employed on his railway con tracts In New South Wales, and that 3: Dunedin artisans have offered to pay thei: own passages to New South "Wales "if M; Proudfoot will guarantee them eniployinem on their arrival at the place of his contract. Of Sir William Fox, " Ignotus " thus writes in tho N.Z. Times :— The hero of a hundred fights, always fresh and hearty, is Sic William Fox. To trace, even shortly, the political career of the veteran knight would require an article itself, but Sir Wm. Fox will never lead a party again. lie has become so ranch a specialist on the question of the suppression of drinking, and he has become so embittered, that he will not in all probability ever be intrusted with the formation of a Cabinet. It is a great satisfaction when dealing with Sir William, however, to know that you have a man of absolute integrity before you. Would there wera more like him in the House ; " but what is one among so many ? " No one can listen to his speeches without feeling their dramatic Strength, their power of metaphor and ap plication, their force of language; but a feeling of regret comes, too, that the power of sarcasm, intolerance, and invective should so predominate. Though his outspoken manliness is respected by his friends, his injudicioaaness and bitter irony are feared as overshooting the mark of caution ; while his uncomprotciaing honeaty, hia power of sarcasm and invective, make him feared and hated by bi3 opponents. In these respects he towers a giant among his fellows; but it is not well to see a man like Sir William, now old, one who in his day " has done the State gome service," compromise the dignity cf bis position in the House, as he sometimes does, by his injudicious oratory. It was not always so, for The time hath been, when no baish souni would fall From lips that now may seem imbued with gall. His last— and by no means least — great work for the colony, tr c West Coast Commission, wticb will ever be a tribute to his ability, needs no comment. _ In reference to the house being struck by lightning at Hawera, a correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle telegraphs under date 10th August :— "Last night we had a fearful storm here, with lightniug such as is seldom seen. This morning the first thing which met my gaze was the ruins of Mr. Goldfinch's cottage. The lightning seems to have passed through the building diagonally, takiug the two corners, and such a wreck can scarcely be imagined. There is not a whole piece of crockery left, and the chimney is nearly down. The lightning seems to have first struck the wire fence" in front of the house, and fused part of it, and then tackled the building. Mr. and Mrs. Goldfimch had a narrow escape. Their bedroom was that night unoccupied, on account of the windows having been broken by the terrific hailstorm on the previous afternoon. They had made up a bed on the floor of the front room, and the lining-boards, which were forced in by the chimney when it was struck, fell on the Bofa, and so kept the bricks from falling on the bed. It was altogether a most fearful night." There i 3 "no love lost" between the West Coast Times and Mr Richard Seddon. Referring to that gentleman, the Timet says :— " The public hare long ago seen through the veil which scarcely hides the • own correspondent' of she Kumara Times, of the Hokitika evening paper, and of the astonishing print which does duty for a newspaper at Ross. Such messages as the following speak for themselves:— 'Your junior member knows what he is about' — 'Your junior member made the best speech of the debate ;' • The Bound arguments of Mr Seddon convinced tbe Ministrry that they were wrong ;' 'A bnrat of cheering, repeated again and again, greeted Mr Seddon at the conclusion of his Demosthenic speech on the Kumara Sludge Channel ;' ' Whenever Mr Seddon rises to speak, the House is crowded aa if by magic;' and so on ad nauseam " The Westport Timos of the 2nd instant says :— Tbe Hero on Wednesday last took away about fifty West Coasters, the bulk of whom are bound either for the Mount Browne diggings, Gympie, Tasmania, or the Cape. Edward Long, weil-known as a pedestrian, proceeds to Mount Browne, having received very encouraging private accounts from that place from an old Wett Coast digger. A number of quartz miceis proceed to Tastnantan tin and gold mines in quest of employment. The quartz mines at Gympie are turning out splendidly, and at the present time eclipse any field in the Australian Colonies in point of productiveness. Musical amateurs who affect 'Pinafore' should beware and take care. At a concert recently given at Hawera two young ladies, in blissful ignorance of the Fine Arts Copyright Act, played on the piano some selections from « H.M.S. Pinafore.' To their surprise and disgust they learned soon afterwards that they had rendered themselves liable to a fee of £2 2a for having played •Pinafore' in public, for which amount a demand was received from the Wellington agent 3 of the composers. A paper-mill company has been started at Terauka, that town being possessed of many natural advantages favorable to the making of paper, foremost among which are: (1) Good pure water, and plenty of it ; (2) cheap straw ; (3) convenience of a railway, and a port within twelve miles ; (4) abundance of libor. At a meeting called for the purpose, it was resolved—' That a company be formed, to be called the New Zealand Paper Mill Company, with a capital of £25,000 in £1 shares." A large number of shares were taken up in the room, and tbe application calls paid. I learn on good authority that Mr Kohier the accomplished musician and enterprising waxworks exhibitor, contemplates bringing an action against the Union S.S. Co. for damage done to his figures on the passage from Wellington to Dunedin in one of the Company's boats. It appears that Queen Victorias crown got smashed, and Ned Kelly s nose was put out of joint by the rough treatment to which Her Majesty and Mansfield desperado were subjected on the trip in question. — Correspondent. An interesting spectacle was witnessed in Melbourne the other day by Earl Clanwilliam and the Governors of Victoria and Queensland and a number of the officers of the Detached Squadron. It consisted |of feats of horsemanship by four of the mounted troopera of the police force upon some wild colts. These troopers, it may be remarked, were all engaged in the pursuit of the Kelly gang and they displayed their splendid horsemanship to great advantage. An object of considerable attraction to visitors at Woolwich Arsenal just now is the collection of projectiles for tbe 80 ton guns of the ironclad Inflexible. Altogether about 300 projectiles for the great guns are to be seen, besides a quantity of canister, each of which contains some thousand of bullets to be scattered in a close encounter. The weight of each shell for the 80 ton guns is 17001b5., or upwards of three quarters of a ton. There are no solid shot, which now scarcely finds a place in the science oi modern arlillery. M. Gambetta is tbe most rapid talker and writer among European statesmen; in public speeches be has at times delivered 180 words a minute, and when he puta pen to paper— which is rarely— he writes at the rate of 40 words a minute. Stenographers find it no easy matter to keep up with him. This is a good year for eccentricity of costumes. At a London reception a youn» woman was seen who had carried a varied use of colours, gilt embroidery, and cut "lass beads to such an extent that she looked like an East Indian princess. The whole surface of her dress was covered with tbis heavy glittering surface. Even her arms were clad from shoulder to elbow in bead embroidery and from elbow to wrist in gold bugles and gold worked mitts. When she danced the bits of glass rattled and shook, and if she were to fall under this weight, it would be utterly impossible for her to get up without assistance Two young ladies appeared in Philadelphia in dresses which looked as if woven from sunlight and moonlight. One was ol cream brocades wrought with gold thread, and made with a box plaited train, and a babj front embroidered in gold and pearls ; the other was of silver cloth, with front and side breadths of white satin embroidered iv white cheDjlie sncl pearls.