LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 193, 2 December 1876, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We have received a letter Bigned " A Sufferer" which was too late for to-day's issue, but will aippear in Monday's. A clear sheet at the Police Court to-day made up for the heavy cause list submitted yesterday. At the committee meeting of the Oamaru School last night, the Rector complained that the windows of the school were repeatedly being broken by the cricketers and footballists. Although he had made application to the respective secretaries to repair the damage, he was unable to get either club to do so. In fact one of the officials stated that legal advice had been taken in the matter, and the advice was that cricketers and footballers were at perfect liberty to break as many windows as they pleased with impunity. Under those circumstances, the Committee instructed Mr. Thornton to prefer one more request for payment of damage, and if that were not immediately complied with, legal proceedings should at once be taken against the delinquents. By last night's post we received the following very intelligible epistle which was written upon, the outside of an envelope. We publish it in case any of our readers may understand it, for we confess we do not: — "From John Cochran, M.M.0.N.Z.A., Sheepshearer, Kourow Station, Waitaki, Otago. Posted 1.12, 1876. To Editor Manager Evening Mail. Please publish sale of extra land, sheep, cattle, horse, and crop, by tender, on 2nd January, 1577, at , Moeraki, Otago, Australasia. Pull particulars on application. All free trader desired to attend and report particular prompt, on each side the line, and from pole to pole. John Cochrane, Legal Loyal Volunteer.' Touters for shares must beware of taking the names of married women without their husbands' knowledge. In the Resident Magistrate's Court, Reefton, recently, a Mr. Jaliffe, hotelkeeper, was sued by the liquidator of the Sir Julius Yogel Quartz-mining Company for calls upon certain shares standing in the name of his wife. From the evidence it appeared that the defendant had been solicited to take an interest in the company to the extent of a full share, but had declined to do so. During his absence in Greymouth his wife consented to subscribe for half a share, but this fact remained unknown to defendant until after a winding-up order had been obtained. His Worship, in giving judgment, commented very strongly on the impropriety of inserting the names of married women in a shar<2 register, and added that although where collusion andrprivacy between man and wife was evidenced good cause would exist for the rectification of the register, nevertheless companies accepting the names of persons irresponsible in law and equity did so at their own risk. Judgment would be for defendant, with costs. The Rockliampton Chronicle says that a man appeared at that office and stated that he had purchased another man's wife, daughter, and furniture, for .-£3. 10s. The vendor had knocked down the money, and was now spunging on his former "property," and the purchaser wanted to publish the sale note, to shame liim oiut of his unbusinesslike conduct. The Auckland special correspondent to the Dunedin Star, under date 29th inst., lines the following : —A letter to the City Council to-day challenges the City Treasurer to reply" to the following statements : —' That "iriual accounts of 1574 and 18/o were "o that the auditors were ■ accounts : that the iv the true -in comt.he

daily' in Collins-street, or to frame dresses which would display more of the natural charms of their wearers than those tightlyfitting,' closely-drawn robes which excite the admiration of Melbourne dandies, as they are shown off in the afternoon perambulations of the block."j "A mysterious • telegram (says the Evening Star) comes to us from Alexandra. A daughter of old Tamati Ngapora or Manuhiri, is coming to Auckland, to return two swords to the Governor. The name of the envoy is in itself ominous—Te Reinga—the place of departed spirits. Our correspondent does not say whether the swords are some of those which the Government have been in the habit of presenting to certain chiefs, in j order to minister to their vanity, or are I emblems of the future intentions of the Kingites." '