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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5401, 19 July 1878, Page 4

In conformity with our usual practice, we reprint gratis in our ad versing columns, for the benefit of our readers, a notification from the Public Works Office that tenders are required for about nine miles of permanent way on the Patea-Manawatu line. For this advertisement the Government pay only the journals which give them political support. The Hou. Mr. Macandrew and the Hon, Mr. Stout will arrive this morning from the South.

His Excellency the Governor lias ■ been pleased to accept the lesigaation by Frederick Edward Mailing, Esq., of his appointment as a justice of the peace for the colony.

Hale v. Mullooly is set down for hearing before a special jury in the Supreme Court this morning.

The Wellington football team will leave for Nelson this evening in the s.s. Wellington, and return on Sunday. In the Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday Mr. Mansford very properly directed that in future defendants summoned for breaches of the by-laws, &0., should not be subjected to the indignity of being placed in the clock. None cither than prisoners in custody should be placed there. The presentation of prizes to the successful competitors at the recent school board examinations will take place at the Imperial Opera House (kindly lent for the occasion by the company) on Tuesday next. The presentations will be made by his Excellency the Governor. About 20.0 children are expected to be present on the occasion, and the National Anthem will be sung by them. Admission will be by ticket, which can be obtained from the hen. secretary, Mr. A. Maginity. The rooms at the Working Men’s Club were again crowded last evening, the Fine Arts and Industrial Exhibition being still in high favor. A great many went specially to see the dissolving views; and in order to enable children to see these to advantage they will be exhibited during Saturday afternoon. The manager intends to make Saturday morning and afternoon particularly attractive to j uveniles, and as the charge tor their admission is only fid. it may he expected that the building will be crowded with little folks. Maps of the city, struck off at Mr. Burrett’s lithographic press, are very neatly done, and give information as to the streets, town acres, &c. They have been sold at low'prioes, and found plenty of buyers. At a meeting held on Wednesday evening of the vestry of St. Peter’s Parish, thebatimoesheet for the year ended June 30 showed a credit balance of £l26 1 14 s. lid., as compared with £lO2 last year, £ll3 in 1876, and £22 in £1875, thus being the largest for many years past, notwithstanding that pew rents to the amount of £7l are still outstanding. The offertories show an increase of £35 over the previous year, the pew rents on the other hand exhibitiug a decrease. The churchwardens (Messrs. Didsbury and Marten) stated that it was their intention not to seek re-election, on the ground that they had already served for several years, and the duties of the office engrossed more time than they could afford. The vestry intimated a hope that the churchwardens would reconsider their decision.

There were twenty-one debt cases on yesterday’s sheet at the Resident Magistrate’s Court. In several of them the debts were confessed, six judgments were recorded for plaintiffs, and the remainder of the cases were adjourned. A deputation consisting of Messrs. Kennedy and Guiness, together with Mr. Nancarrow, the Mayor of Greymouth, accompanied by Mr. Woolcock, M.H.R. for Grey Valley, waited yesterday on the Hon. Mr. Pishei', in reference to the stoppage of the Harbor Works at Greymouth. The reason of the stoppage of the works does not appear to he very clear ; but it has caused considerable uneasiness and dissatisfaction, and some distress amongst the laboring classes there. It was arranged that the deputation should meet the Hon. Mi'. Macandrew, Minister. of Public Works, on Saturday morning at 11 o’clock. Yesterday’s Gazette containg a despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies relative to the appointment by the Emperor of China of Chinese consuls to' reside in various ports of theßritish dominions. The despatch observes that China, unlike Great Britain and the other Treaty Powers, has not thrown open her country to foreigners and to foreign commerce, and she can hardly, therefore, 'appeal to the example of European nations in applying for the concession now sought. " The following notices relative to the charge for the conveyance of native coals on New Zealand railways is published in yesterday’s Gazette: —Conveyance of native coals from colleries, in Government trucks, Is. 6d. person for distance of three miles and under j 2s. 6d. per ton for distances over three miles, and-not exceeding fifteen miles ; 2d.,per ton per m le for each additional mile up to twenty-five-miles ; IJd. per ton per mile for each additional mile up to fifty miles ; Id. per ton per mile for each additional mile. Pull truck charged for. Trucks will be allowed to remain at coal-pits eight working hours for the purpose of loading, afterwhich demurrage will be charged at the rate of £1 per day or fraction thereof. .Any time from 8 a.m, to 5 p.m. counted as working hours. H. M. Lee, Esq., is gazetted clerk to the Resident /Magistrate’s Court at Leeston and Southhridgo, also clerk to the Ellesmere Licensing Court ; and T. F. Gooch, Esq., is appointed clerk of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Te Kopnru.

Mr. V. Sidey will sell to-day, at his rooms. Lamb-ton-quay,, tea, 6 :ur, kerosene, and sundries ; also, a well-built spring dray, with horse, harness, Ac., In consequence of the present owner being about to leave for New Guinea. This sale will take place at a quarter to two o’clock. Mr. 11. J. Duncan will sell at 11 o’clock'to-day a quantity of bottled beer, to arrive by the Wallace today. It is to be sold in bond, and delivery is to bo taken by the purchaser from the ship ; also, tea in half chests and bores (in bond): also, fruit trees, quicks, cigars, bitters, Ac, Mr. Duncan will submit to public competition a quantity of ships* and marine stores on board the barque Camille at 2 o’clock. Messrs. Leery end Campbell (late Beauchamp, Campbell and Co.) will sell to-day, af-2 o’clock, a quantity of glassware, silber light lamps, clocks, watches, chocolate, paperhauglngs, &c.