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Evening Star, Issue 4306, 14 December 1876, Page 3

The Dunedin School Committee held a meeting this afternoon and decided that if the weather does not improve to-morrow, the pic-nic will be postponed till Saturday; but if there is reasonable'prospeet of its being fine it will be held at Forbury Park tomorrow as already announced. Touching the loss of the William Ackers the ‘Southland News’ says that Captain Lindsay was only recently married, and his wife is new redding at Newcastle, N.S.W. The vessel was loaded with timber for Lyttelton, after discharging which she was tohave returned to the Bluff for another cargo. The William Ackers was a strong, wellfeund craft, built at Whitehaven, m England. That game old- horse Mistletoe has met with an accident which will probably put an 'end to his career on the turf. Some days since Mistletoe was being exercised at Cromwell with other horses owned by Mr M‘Gregor, and while going at a good pace he placedhis foot on a tussock root, and so severely wrenched the limb as to twist the hoof right round. It is feared (says the ‘Argus’) that the injury will prove a permanent one, especially as the same foot was injured when the horse was so severely hurt on the Dunedin course. For the past week the police at Cromwell have been actively engaged in the search for a man named HughM'Kone, a xesident of Nevis, who is wandering about the Garrick Range in a state of insanity. It seems that on Saturday week M‘Eone was admitted to the local'hospital, which institution he left cn the following day; since which time, up to Sunday last, he had not been heard of. On the day named he called at the hut of some miners at the Carriok and had breakfast, after which he again betook himself to the ranges, where he is now supposed to he wandering. The police still continue their inquiries aft-jr him.