The Evening Mail. THURSDAY, SEPT. 14, 1876. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 125, 14 September 1876, Page 2

The Evening Mail. THURSDAY, SEPT. 14, 1876. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

f It i* really astonishing the mistakes aoinc I people make. Tlii* morning a man, who |. had jn*6 arrival Jmm the cottnfcry, and «•»« ! KJtxtoif* to place some money at deposit in the- National Bank, entered tJic Kmpire .Hotel. Charley, of coarse - , appeared on the »KStw. and enqttirud t>f the customer hhs l>n*im?**. *■ I want a draft/" s*aid tin* visitor, wl thareapo-n Charley drew him half-a-pint tit a pewter. "What"* this for," nwk»d the .■itranger: "I want to make a d'-poni*." '•♦. Jo iw\t door/' «dd Charity. Iff vwttor !»?«? t'»rhn half-pint. I>nt he s*w..iv that the ut.xt tinip he had any money to leavr he wi-nttd look at the s»ign-hoard to .*»-•«■ what «vt oi a t'rif» he was going into. Thy Vaudeville Trottpe make their appearancd to-morrow evening in the Ma*oisi>;if»!l, and jttdsjlng from the list of arti?t. v .* which «ouipriac the company, ami- the varied aeo.>rnj»tfetfitKei»t3 ' >E each, there i.-f »rvt>ry r»"a.fon t-» espect a;n entertainment of no ordinary « havact«r. Amongst the principal names we notice that of Mr. Charles Venier. so lonij associated and well spoken of in connection v.-ith il«ker"i* Htiiemicoa; Dave Itarduur, Nt»\tcrt> IVltnraCor; and Mr." f.teorgtf fJsrdner, Chantpton Cl«g and Hornpipe Dancer: Mi** lily Bryant U also one of the trouiw. In addition to the above Mr. George \V. ColHer wilt afoo appear, and give his imitation* of celchratecl actors. Mr. Collier being a Shaksperian stetur of con»i«lerab!e rcptttation, ha.* haJ ample opporlmnities dnring the past qearter of a eenfittry of stndying the mann«ri«ok* aa«t pecalbritic3 of the different "stars" In hii* protesdion, and his entertainment would be in itself a treat

We would direct the attention of the Mnnicipal Council to the state of Edgn and Reed street. After a shower of thoronghfares are quite impassable, and the children who have ,to attend schoolsire. compelletl ; tc> : wa3e^throu^ r fccfclavbf mod. Wjeirfeel sUre we l(ave only to mentioniihe matter to have it immediately attended to. A crpsaing ofblue metal trould hav» the .desired efiect. \.<£>7 N^ The Wellington Argu* says-: " llie verbal' castigation inflicted on Mr. Wakefield by Mr. Pylce, tvas a most effective and welldeserved one. The member for Geraldiue is not particularly sensitive, and yet lie evidently writhed under the cutting sarcasm of the meml>er for the Dunstan, as he has ere now writhed under cutting applications of other weapons than the tongue. The name of Don Adriano dc Armado will no donbfc .-tick to linn; but really it is rearcely just to the memory of that illustrious but fantastical Spaniard, or to his author, Shalcspearc, that Mr. Wakctield should be supposed to fully resemble hini. 'This child of fancy, that Armado hight," was a much .more amiable and less offensive individual than Mr. Wakefield. Mr. Pyke may congratulate himself that " Love's Labor was not Lost' yesterday, f(>r the House evidently enjoyed it."

I I'hri reason why Agnew, the picture" » dealer, gave 10,000 guineas for(«ainsborougu's • •' Duchess of Devonshire." has now leaked i out. Kiron I.othscbild wanted it, ami «>ut of self-will ran it up to £10.000; when Agnew bid hi* next hundred he let him have it—not without a grim '-mile, ir is -said. The great dealer Ins often found his advantage in opposing such men's wishes and then gratifying them for a consideration: and he thought he would do it on tin's occasion. As as the sale was over, he went to the baron, and informed him that he could buy his bargain for £"300. " .My good sir,'" was the reply, " I wouldn't give you .sixpence for [ it; nor the picture—now that I am in my | right mind—would 1 give you half the money [ yon paid for it."

[ The Auckland Slar says : —" The arrest of | Mr. C. K. Jlaugton on an abominable charge lift* produced a painful feeling in Auckland [as veil as* at Wellington, it may not be | generally known that the accused was, not j many yean* ago, a well-known mining agent I at th" 'i'hamoi, being then a member of the linn of Broad, Haughton, and Keddel. There I have been strange rumors as to Ids early j career, and these gain fresh currency by the j startling events of the last few days. Going [ back to the time before be assumed his high j position as Under-Secretary for Immigration, | Mr. llanghton was a member of the AssemI My, and at m; period occupied the eon- ■ fidentia! post of <*•«•<■ nimcnfc 'whip.' He is i very v.«-U connected, and parsed through an [ Kugtish University with high honor. Aftcr'l wants he held the position, we believe, of i chaplain in the navy, and the circumstances | connected with his severance from Her [ Majesty's sen-ice, have formed the subject of many minors. The shock which the pre- | sent scandal has given to Wellington society | may be well imagined. The accused ha 3 | moved in the very »7»Ve of society, and the j ctlorts of friends to get him out of the way | and hush matters up. must have been very ( very strong. We cannot avoid noticing the \ integrity with which the authorities have j disregarded all these attempt's to hinder the ( cottntf- of justice, and have done their duty | niiHinchingly."

f j The following ludicrous incident in the I Wellington Municipal elections is thu:- re- ! loied by the Xfir> Zndm»l MvV.: —A fervent f supporter of <mc candidate w«i* engaged with a roll of pap*r, a pocket ink bottle, and a *ted pi-n, procuring th*- rest i>i IS3 signatures, when lie wiss beekonu.i across the street by a whf* sei-ves. aiiinmon rs. He ..1,-eytd the beck, and hastily thrusting the roll into the bcckoncr*:* hand, produced the ink bottle, dipped the yen in it, and offered every* facility for putting down another good name Utit the bet-koncr put the roll, the j' ijoitk', and the pen to one sid'j, and served ; the iVrvcnt supporter with a summons to ap- | mid show c.in«e why lie shonhl not be 1 ordered to p?,y the candid-si.; a small amount. The iVrvriit supporter en-it the roll to the wild nortli wind, broke the nibs of the pen, : .■rushed the bottle beneath his licr-1, and oc- ! nipied ten miunte? saying what he would awl would not do for the candidate. How--1 ever, the matter coining to the candidate's ! earj. "h<» whole mat tor was explained to be

rjuitc a intMiike. and harmoiiy once more rfeitii?. On thft Sunday previous to rhe race for the Lincolnshire Handicap, in which Lord Bo3eberry':? hoive Controversy was entered, tlie Bishop of Lincoln preached a sermon, taking for hi* text "Beware of Controversy," little imagining the use to which a portion of his congregation, struck t.y theappropWateness"of the t»'Xt, woidd ap]>!y if. Tlic Bishop is nn.wparing in his attacks upon racing and racing nif n : hence the triteness of the- text on the occasion referred to. At Pnblin Police Court one Saturday, Miss Farrell, of Spireviev.-tatie. Kathgar, summoned Mrs. Grant, of the same lane, for calling her a " has been," which, complainant said, meant she was not of good character. Both parties were in the milk trade. Complainant having proved her case, the defender said—l will tell your "worsop" all

the ins and oats of this case. (Laughter.) I have got a cow, and this woman, MisV Farrell, went along the whole of the Bath-mines-road telling that the cow with sores and sickness. (daughter.) L||§fc{; WP&, 10& Wj£. Mis^a^ell— are you oaths? G^t: Wajl, your said that; she OTubk !af4fork in |3ie she. smore she jLwijddJ stick me K; 'Kke thereat. peopfe>ih'e fork, the prongs of which are crooked. (To the complainant): And when you were selling cans of blood.for.can3_of milk I didn't make a show of yqii. . (Laughter.), . .That's ; what she was selling when her cows were dying, your worship. (Laughter.) I was never before the.Court,.nor-were any of my seven generations. (Laughter.) Mr. O'Donel: Well, lam surprised at that. Mrs. iGrant": I was never here before, and never would have been but for that old villain. Ultimately the case was allowed to stand for a fortnight. Advices from the Shotover give a rather gloomy picture of mining prospects during the past winter, which we (Arrow Observe}-) are informed lias been fearfully hai-d up, snow xip to the knees, and frost of Siberian intensity. Many men have been idle for three months, and have only just made a start. Even some of the river miners could not work, as they could not break the frozen ground on the beaches. There has not actually been a single ounce of gold got out of the liver by any of the parties at work in her from the Blind Stab up, with one exception, a man who has been merely making wages in some old ground, Opposite the Nugget reef. Above the Sandhills the Chinese have been getting a little gold all the winter. The dredge party have -not aone liuick ; -in-£?<?i,. the European miners working the alluvial ground cannot' have got more than two pounds weight of gold during the last three months altogether, while for anything in the shape of a job of work applicants are plentiful.

Somewhere about Geelong a very select party had met, but the local Advertiser relate.l! that harmony was rather marred by a trilling circumstance :"A well-known young lady pre?ent, glancing at a lookingglass; discovered that somebody bad marked her face with lampblack. This po enraged her that she planted her fist oa the month of an innocent young .man who happened to stand near her, and he returned the compliment. In her wild rage and weeping condition, and with her blackened face, she looked. horrible in the extreme. She soon laid the young man out ' pretty flat,' and then, seizing the poker, she went at-the rest of the company. In less than two minutes she had everybody in the room twenty in all—piled up in a corner. Then she quietly put on her hat and shawl, and walked off home."

During the hearing of an affiliation case at Christehurch, the complainant took a curious way of pleading her ease. Robert Parkes was summoned at the Resident Magistrate' 3 Court for failing to contribute towards the support of his illegitimate child, of which Margaret Kyle is tlie mother. Mr. Izard appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Loughnan for the defendant. The paternity of the child was admitted, bnt defendant held a release under seal, which he had received on payment of £lO. Mr. Izard cited 29 L.J., Vic. vii. and viii., showing that the payment of the money having been made without the sanction of his Worship, and the child now shown to be destitute, it was ■within his Worship's discretion to grant an order to the mother for its maintenance. Mr. Loughnan argued contra., and contended that the payment of the money, under deed of release, was an absolute estoppel, and placed the case outside the jurisdiction of his Worship. His Worship held with jvft\ Loughnan, that the deed was an estoppel, and put the case outside his jurisdiction. He could not make any order. Mr. Izard gave notice of appeal. The complainant here became very violent, and laid the infant, which she had been holding in her arms, on the floor of the Court saying the father could talce it and the other two outside, as she. would not.' She then left the Court, and as she continued to be very violent, and refused to take the child, his Worship ordered her to be locked up -for twenty-four hours.

I Some relic?, no doubt, of that stirring ! period "i) 8,' r have been discovered in Irel land. The Cork\ JSxammer says that whilst two men from the village of Liscarroll were employed digging in the court-yard of the castle, they came l>y what they considered to be a bar of iron, but what afterwards proved to be a bar of Virginia gold, weighing 131bs. 2ozs. Led on by a spirit..of enterprise; at so valuable a discovery, they got three men io-help them in making a search'-in'the hope of finding some object of still greater curiosity; They hadnot dug more than five feet further when they came to a flag. This they raised with some --difficulty, and, behold ! what must have been their astonishment on finding thirty-five immense pikes, half consumed with "rust, together with.a number nf helmets arid breastplates. The news spread at once. Wonderful excitement was entertained for many, miles around. Hundreds of persons were daily flocking to j the scene of the discovery, chiefly for the purpose of seeing and handling the mighty weapons which their ancestors wielded. The Rev. P; P. Agnew"will lecture this] evening at the Masonic Hall. The subject' ] chosen is. ~" A - Clergyman's Adventures i tbxongb, the,lnter\or-Qf Australia.'' --.-■-. !