Interprovincial

New Zealand Tablet, 4 October 1906, Page 24

Interprovincial

Correspondence for our next issue should reach us not later than Monday, as we will have to go to press a day- earlier- than- usual, owing to the statutory holiday on Wednesday. In opening the new post office at the Lower Hutt Sir Joseph Ward said that the -New Zealand' postal service compared' with similar services in the countries he had recently visited; was v second to none. - ■ We have to thank' Mr. George Robertson,- x Wellington, for a* copy of ' L' lndependence Beige,' of August 11 which contains a very sympathetic and appreciative sketch of the life of the late, Jlight Hon fly n" 4 ?£ n> w Ph an account of his' death, and reference to the grief which that sad event caused in tho LoJony. The particulars are supplied by the Wellington correspondent of our Belgian contemporary. The British Art Section will unquestionably be one of the most valuable and striking features of the Christoh-urch Exhibition. A very comprehensive and representative' exhibit has been sent out which will be a treat to connoisseurs, and a very valuable education 1loca(1 loca ( i 1 . artls . ts - Th e exhibit is composed as follows .—Oil paintings, 150 ; 'watercolors, 350 • black and whites, 300 ; sculptures, SO ; architecture, ' 200 • arts and crafts, 800. ' Writing of the Maketote Viaduct, the ' Taihape Post' says .- The most formidable work, of the kind now remaining to be done on the North Island Trunk line is supposed to be finished by June of next year? three years from the time when the contract was signed. It is 890 feet long and 9feet wide at the top It crosses the creek nearly 300 feet above the bod of fv/fm »r» r f a J n> 4 * I s , su PP° rte<l "n trestles narrowing horn 84 feet a t the bottom to 36 feet at the ton and resting on enormous blocks of concrete. One thousand tons of steel and 1000 tons of cement will be used m the work of erection. ". s Pfa*ing at the luncheon which followed the opening of the Stoke bridge on Saturday, the lion W Hall-Jones said that New Zealand had been extremely fortunate in its Governors. He had known four, Lord Onslow Lord Glasgow, Lord Panfurly, and Lord Pluhket, and they all seemed to identify themselves with ho interests of New Zealand as if they had been nM U n n t ? e co l untrv - During Ms recent visit to the Old Country he had had opportunities of seeing the good work that was being done at Home by the former Governors when any -question affecting New Zealand came up for consideration