The Evening Mail. SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1877. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 227, 13 January 1877, Page 2

The Evening Mail.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1877. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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We observe that twfctyc* t'or Europe by the Sutw iruul! have to be posted here before (> a. m. ort the ttith ins#. A* the tetters feoir* Home by the corresponding mat! eannet arrive hero before the evening thvt date* it will 06 course 1 few impossible to- answer them, so- that the only parts' of the country which wttl derive any benefit! fton* being able to answer the inKotuing tetters will be the immediate vicinity of Dunedin. and the dUtriat between it and the Bluff. Sweety this i» not as it should be. file report read and adopted at the meetbig of the Harbor Board yesterday, though rather lengthy, cannot but be e£ interest. It wilt be found eiawhere in our eotumns. Wa are in receipt of the New Zealand Portal Guide- for the current year. It eotitlx® usual information,. besides a compendious Railway Time Table. In thtt Resident Magistrates Court to-day, Thomaa C*rit&n Ctreea,. whose come wa& on yesterday,. for being drunk and ilrtowlarly, was fined £4,. with the alternative of 14 days' imprisonment. AH th« JPresbyteriaa Synod 01s Thursday a lattw waft r«c«ived foom Mi\ Smiths Factor to thft Church Trustees. recommending the appointment ct a second proiessorof a second ehatr let th« University ®l Duncdin. the tinl oi Natural) Science,, and the projhwcv'to W Ctaratur t>£ the Alnsattssu. ait re* eeamwwleil by th« University Council.

The Port Darwin telegraph line, which ■was reported last night a.3 being tlown, i 3 now in working order again. Mr. C. E. iianghton has left Wellington for Australia- Since his trial he has been lyring in seclusion in tllington, but it ii said that he hast been paying off sonic old scores by contributing article.* to the .1 ryus, in which aome members of the Civil Service and notables of Wellington were scarified. From Martin's Bay wc learn that there is a probability of the accession to the population of that locality daring the present session by the arrival of several families fr«m Jackson's Hay. \\ ere there greater facilities for migrating, it believed that Martini Hay wontit drain .I,icfc.Ws of its population, as the soil of the former place is much superior to that of the latter. The settlers at Martin's* Hay would esteem it a great boon if the flovernment would arrange for the Maori to call even fotir titnes a year for a certainty. At present. though the steamer parses monthly, it is never known when it will rati or when it will pass by the f»ay, the rcs«tt being that mereitnttrltae and passengers for Martin s» Bay are kreqnctitly carried on So the twxt place of call. A correspondent of the //»'*•»»•? To«*» .V''''c/tcy, writing in reference to cable conferremarks that for cable communication connecting New Zealand with New f-'outh ; Wales. a distance of 1.3..0 miles, the two colonies pav New S'>utb Wrdas one-third. New JCcatmd two thinls—an annual subsidy of £7. "»>'•"> for ten years. For the cable connecting Tsv-manta with \ kfcwias. about ISO | miles in hmgr-h. Tasmania pays iM.tllK) a year, and tu porpetnity. The New /..aland cable. seven tiuyjs th»' tongSh of the laauiantut. «.*»&» c.>n:idu> rainy ie ; s than twtce what Ta-. mania ha.i to pay so long as I ho cy.uparty kce-» thj cable- in »r;tcr. A few day.i ag > (says thcr 0! r'jo Deity Tim:---') some- Einjohi sheep wwre shorn at Edeadatev in Sontht.ind. belonging to the New Xeal'Ut-l and Au ;tra';bn Litut Company, which yielded {tcscv* worthy of notice. '1 hey were the hoggets cr.hib'.ted by the Company . at the lat? invercargill Sb.w. Tlimm ra*uSo.?.. t!u U -avUut I. mag : an I thruj- ewe; (tlia ti.'-t p:i:j pj;«) avvragr 1 »1. ! .tb.. the hj: 'j.vtij- ■ t being 2'JUb—all .'skirt .'d dtv.vs. Two Iv.uithvd and soventc-ca ram i t'rottv the rams tl. >ek. *>liont on StU Novcm her. etrpr>e t au avcragj o! lOib. »ox. ot washed and skirted wool. It wai fr»>m tins Hock that th-r twelve HecceJ were obtained which g-aincd the gold medal in . threj years ago a.s the most valuable twelve deuces in the exhibition. [t is announced that Mr. J. Sperrey habeen appoiritcl to bt Snporintciident t.ollector of the- account of land tn ♦-ultivation. and of agricultural produce thereof, to be taken in February. b>77, tinder the- provision* of " Ttvo Census Acts Atncndmunt Act. ISfrT." C'or the provincial district of <J tag l The many friends of Mr. Hoskins will be gratified to. tcan» that h;s iivatth is so tar recovered that Eve will be able in a few days to again coma before ttu? publb. The jiydnjy men seem to he giving a gnod . account of themsetve# against the All-Kng-l:wd Eleven, the tatter being all out ft.r "i-"> With reference to the nwcehfs- to be played til New Xealattd th*,' t'lfiWHt'ta sav« : "Mr. Bennett, the agent for the All-Kng-land Eleven" arrived in town yesterday from Melbourne, and is nov. actively engaged in completing his arrangements for the tour of the Cohrny. The route of the k.attt has had to be changed, owing to the fo»rt that the steamer time.! do nut bit as wigtnalfy inThe Eleven will, it ha» hcvtt settleil, arrive at Auckland on Suttday. the iSth. and will ptay on the *3tE». 30th, and SEst. From thence they will come on to Wellington, playing on the ">th, *»th. and 7th. From Wellington they will pmeeed to Wanganer. if tenns arir agreed P[m», awl if not they wiil play ne&t at t'lui-.telmrch, and coming on to ftotredin. will reach her© the Uth February. Mr. Hcnnett has completed arrangements for the cons tract ion of a grand stand and booths, and has expressed him- , sell! sat to fed with the ground. The difficult tied of County Cotmcib appear : to luiive begun already. The Gtr>/ ll'»yr Ai'i/'Of has the following:—"Mr. C. E. ' tVutton h;w given the following opinion to Mr. Sodden ttpott the present |»«ition of the : Westlaad County Council:—"ln reference 1 to the three- submitted by yoa for ; my opinion, 1 beg to submit the following diptiibttni whether it was competent for the : Cosncil to appoint a stranger to be interim : Chairman. . This- being the first meeting of the Council, snd no clerk having teen apI pointed. 1 think one of the members should ; Etave Ibeen appointed to act on the occasion, i If there haul been a clerk, I think he might

have been appointed to take the votes. 2. As there were three persons nominated, and a distinct vote taken for the first two, I do not think the election was complete without a vote being taken for the third. 3. Ido not sec any way of meeting the difficulty of the Council having broken up without an adjournment having been agreed upon, or another day appointed for another meeting, except that the Governor should appoint another meeting, and it seems very questionable to me whether indeed the Governor has power to do so."