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Evening Star, Issue 4077, 21 March 1876, Page 4

Sly-grog selling as practised by boardinghouse Keepers, has become such a crying evil inOamara that the Good Templars tiici'B have taken the matter up, and. as we learn from the ‘ North Otago Times ’ memorialised the municipal"authorities to take some action, or if they were unable to do so to join the memorialists in urging the proper authorities to remedy the cm complained of. Those of the Council who spoke admitted that the nuisance was a growing one, which should be put down, and one Councillor instanced a case as having come under his notice, where a working man was turned out of oiie of the Oamaru boardinghouses because he was a teetotaller; The Maypr threw out the suggestion that the Corporation should endeavor to get an Act passed by the Assembly to license all board-ing-houses. We take the following items from Saturday’s ‘North Otago Times ’ .-—The rails for the last link to connect us with the Canterbury railways are expected in Oamaru very Shortly, the schooners Onward and Elizabeth Curie being now at Lyttelton, waiting to bring down the cargo of the ship Hudson. —The sixth and last of the large caisson blocks for the foundation of the new /wharf extension was successfully completed on Thursday, and the work of filling up and of building the superstructure will now be ■apidly proceeded: with. The Waitaki .bridge bas been taken over from, .the contractor (Mr M‘Gavin), upon whom it reflects the greatest possible credit, and a committee has been formed at Waimate, and another at Oamaru, with a view of making Mr M‘Gavin 9 Substantial presentation, It is suggested that if the funds will' admit, the presentation .should take the form of a solid -»iilYer. model .of .Jibe bridge.—The municipality has decided to invite applications for a gaa engineer, at L3OO a-year.