LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 232, 19 January 1877, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.\W s!*:sl fu ; ''> " '-*: wrt/w to CbrwU-tttt:rt\i willaoswn i.« w e .y-i 3"«»e eSbrt E(tl Sc made to have the town »s presentable as possible, and cause oar visitor* to bear away with them the high opinion which others have passed upon Oamaru. This could be dose with small labor and outlay, and even the residences of private persons might be brushed up a little. In moat of the streets where there are private dwellings a mass of grass and weed is allowed to grow up outside the fences, which has anything but a pleasing appearance, and could be removed with very little trouble. Grass growing up on a pathway, either at the top or the bottom, gives an idea of decay, and will leave the impression on our strangers that Oamaru is not the busy place it has been represented. There was no criminal business in the Court to-day, bat, as if to compensate for that, there was a perfect array of civil cases. Those, however, generally manage to drag their weary way through the whole day, poasesaingbut little interestsave to the parties more immediately concerned, and demanding more time than our reporter can spare. We have been shown a telegram, received by the agent of the William Gifford, announcing her arrival at Newcastle, this morning. We have often heard of a candidate for legislative or municipal honors seconding his ownlnomination; in fact, Sir Julius Vogcl is a case in point, but that has been out-done by an election which took place at Cheviot the other day. where the Hon. W. Robinson, M.L.C., proposed and seconded himself as a lit and proper person to represent the district. As all predicted, the Match between Christchurch and Otago has been won by the City of the Plains. For, although at last account the representatives of Otago were still at the stamps, the odds against them are too great to ever recover their lost ground. Moore must be a proud fellow when he can boast that he made more off his ownbba r with fifteen over, than the whole of the Otago team. In another column we publish a long account of the Hoods in Canterbury, taken from yesterday's Tbnaru Herald, Although the damage to property has been most extensive, luckily the floods have |not been attended with loss of life. The heavy rain of last night, we regret to say, will be far from calculated to improve matters. An invitation appears in our advertising eohtmns to gentlemen desirous of forming a Sport* Committee on the occasion of the opening of the Christchurch Railway, to meet at the Queen's Hotel on Monday evening next, at eight o'clock. In the hospital in Mountpelier, France, is a patient, who has just swallowed a thermometer, left on his table while suffering from temporary delirium. They have a great deal of trouble with him now. When he drink* hot coffee, thermometer flies against the roof of his mouth hard enough to lift his hat off, and when he eats ice cream, it gets down into his boots, and worries his corns.