THE EVENING MAIL. TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1877.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 283, 20 March 1877, Page 2

THE EVENING MAIL.

TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1877.

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The fate fatal accident by which Captain Rain tout tvt» lift? bring* forcibly before ns the argent neccsutty.for some *t'?ps being fatten to render that portion of the road to th-r Preafcwater safe for pedestrians whose avocations their pacing .ilmi? it (■taring ftx* As we havei before of»served., tht* no-t-wt to provide for the safety <■■>£ the pnbtfe ha.* U*c have to Mams? anyone or any narttcnUr body f t >r the very gr->at laxity of duty which ha* taken place: bttt we roust certainty eufer our against a continuance of that which has result© 1 in the toss of a valuable litV. Fnrely the expense of placing a substantial railing along the most dmgorott* part of the roa>l would he very trifling as twmiwc t with the great pnhfic benefit that worth! ho achieved. IS tt. apart from expense, we th'n't the puhlie safety b of p-ttnanent importance, and no monetary consideration should he allowed to prevent the carrying ont of so needful a work. The Coroners dttry at the late inquest app-ared to be fully alive to the necessity of something being done in the matter, as is shown I y the following rider which added to their verdict :—" That the ffarhortr Hoard he requested to take step- to prevent a recurrence of such acehbnta in future." We trust that the. herein contained wilt ha acted Upon ; indeed, we think the pnhtie worth! he fatly justified in demanding that immediate action »ho:ild he taken in the matter.

We have f'* , *Ti rs-{tiw=itet to contradict a statement mvLr I>y otir extemporary to the efFeu-t that the sc!v>r>n?r Pelican had been compette I by a southerly breeze to leave her anchorage *>£F Kakanui, ami shelter at the- Oamim ttreakwatcr. The fact i?, our : informant state*, that the? Pelican wns still tyin-i; at anchor ott KakatmF. and that there wa--*, therufore. no troth in the report. The Ke*ident Magistrate's Cottrt was crowded during the creator part of to-day, the chief attraet'on being ths hearing of a : complaint hid l»y Alfred Guy against three married women, charging, them with having n*ed insmltmg ami abusive language towards him. ami praying that the defendant might 1 he Iw.ttnd over to keep the peace towards him- The disturbance, it appeared from the ; evidence, aro-ein con«C'"|Hsncs of complainant having turned hta wife out of the hoiue, ami taken unto himself a "housekeeper" named Mrs. Josephine Jones—a proceeding which the married women in the neighbourhood seem thoroughly to have objected to. After hearing the evidence fwhich will be found pretty fully reported in another column), the ease was dismissed. In doing so, his Worship animadverted strongly upon the conduct of the complainant, saying that he was stirpried at the complainant appearing in the Coart in the character in which he did, adding that his so doing showed either an absence of shame or very great assurance,

A meeting of the Macandrew Testimonial Committee is announced to be held this evening. The steamer Waitaki is advertised to leave for Port Chalmers to-morrow at 10.30 a.m., cirrying passengere at LI for the return trip, thus affording excursionists a capital opportunity of the pleasure of a cheap sea trip and being present at the Duncdin T.aces. The p.s. Salmon will also carry excursionists to D:inedin for a like fare, leaving here on Thursday at G p.m. The supervision of the Oamaru public works, including that of the Kartigi contract (says the DaVy Tim**), lias been transferred to Mr. Blair, as Mr. Lowe, who previously had charge of the works in that district, haj resjivc.l another appointm nt. The special committiC meeting of the North Otago Horticultural Society, adver- | tiaed to take placi evening, did not eventuate, owing to there not being sufficient member* present. The meeting v:ai there- ! fore adjourned until Thursday evening next. The Dadj Times of to-day ha 3 the followj„rf:_".Messrs. Ca-gills, Gibbs, and Co. have received the following cable messr.ge from Messrs. Hehnuth, Schwartz, and Co., dated 12th March :—'Since our last telegram s.-.h-s continue flat. Cross-breds are neglected ; Sydney fleece and clothing do-scri->tio;is particularly neglected ; Adela'de depressed. The good demand for wools of breed and quality in: i itains itself, but the I bulk of the supplies sells rather easier, particularly inferior and faulty wools."

The Cronvcdl Arym is defiant. It publishes a lettc.- from Mr. Vincent Tyke's I iwyer, c.illinj for a " full and ample " nuologv for various " false and nrilicious ft.it -.lll' lit* " contained in a letter which it had [miiltslicd, *ueh apology to be first submitted to Mr. Pyke, a:id also to pay three guineas f»»r his expanse*, and further stating, that miles* the foregoing things are done, Mr. Pykc will, without further notice, institute a criminal prosecution for libel." The A>\t>r.* does not see that it is "called upon to disburse three guineas towards Mr. Pyke's expense.:. Where we have erred it will give us pleasure t > make the amende honourable, but 1 , where we have consciousness of entire innoeen-v, we 11103!; certainly and absolutely • Icoliiu to humiliate ourselves at the bidding of any 111 in." We clip the following from to-day's Cvulin*. receive I by the Waitaki : —"The numi'jf in which the Australian news is supplied by tho Press Agency is not at all crcditaMe, especially considering the very good thing they make out of it. The information respecting the interesting cricket match now playing in Victoria—Combined Australia agiinst the All-England Elevenno to Saturday night came in disjointed driblet j. The first day'.* play did not come through until the following day, while the result of yesterday's play did not come to hind at ail last night. As the Agency has a iiio:;o;>oly of the Australian Press telegrams, they are quite light in waiting until the news appears in the Melbourne papers before they g.:t it through. This is a cheaper system than paving an agent to look after the news, in order that the New Zealand Press may receive it on the same day, if it is not quit: so .satisfactory. We notice, by watching the Melbourne pipers, that news appearing therein frequently dots not reach the New Zealand journals until the following day of its pttblic.iti >n in Victoria, and yet tSie Agency boasts about its great enterwrisc ia procuring its Australian news, and makes the New Zealand journals pay through the nose for the exercise of this enterprise (?). If the manner in which it telegraphed the last Melbourne Cup an I the present cricket match is a sqr.cimen of their enterprise, we fail to appreciate it, that's all." The "Intelligent Vagrant "in the New Zi-nhni'l 7Vm?j» writes as follows resprct- ' ing an extraordinary blunder made by the i Tiirttntd-i Ihnild in recording the latest : news from Constantinople :—" Loftus made ! a demonstration before the Russian embassy by shouting * Down with Russia !' " I have this upon the authority of the Taranahl Ih-rabl. If it's true, it shows a disgraceful state of thing's. On'ty the other day the Czar had a most important conversation at St. Petersburg with Lord Augustus Loftus, the object being to convince England, through its Minister, that Russia did not desire war and never had dreams of territorial aggrandisement. Yet his Lordship (a3 it would seem) immediately afterwards left his post at St. Petersburg, hurried to Constantinople, and made a demonstration (in plain English a "row") before the Russian embassy. He ought to be recalled at once if the Herald is correct. But perhaps it isn't; perhaps the sub-editor or the printer only muddled "Softas" into "Loftus." Shall we have another action for libel against a New Zealand newspaper ?

A foot-race of a somewhat- novel character (says the Wallaroo Times, N.S.W.) took place at Green's Plains on 16th February between Messrs. Charlton, jun., and T. Nugent. The distance fixed upon was 100 yards, Sir. Nugent to.carry a saddle and the heaviest man in the locality, and to have 50 yards' start. Mr. W. V. Brown, being possessed of the greatest quantity of '' adipose tissue," was selected for the jockey, and the race duly came off, resulting in a victory for the weight-carrier by one yard. The Guardian supplies the following particulars of the race with a train, mentioned in our telegrams yesterday : —" A race for 10 miles between a horseman and a locomotive is something rather unusual. The passengers by the afternoon train from Port Chalmers yesterday had the pleasure of wit. nessing such an event. As the train left the Port Chalmers Pier, a rider, well mounted on a highly-mettled steed, was seen dashing through the township. As Duned'n was approached, tli3 frequent stoppages enabled him to redeem lost ground, and also to give his horse an occasional spell. As Ravensbourne was reached, the utmost interest in the result of the race began to be manifested by the passengers, many of them encouraging the rider in his self-imposed Crossing Pelichet Bay he was alongside the train, and as the tickets had to be collected at the station there, he must have reached the city sosiie minutes before the train's arrival."