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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 307, 18 April 1877, Page 2

In another c >lu:n:i will be found an amende I mail notice, from which it will be jijen that several alterations have been made hi thsj h ui-s of closing mails, consequent uvn th-» ehang: <>f the times of departure of train-;. Wo iunlcr.ii.-m I that tli2 Secretary of the litst Oamant Permanent Building aid Investment Society ha» received intimation that the Society has been incorporated under •'Tha Building Societies Act, IS7G." In .-.not her column we publish an article from the (J mi r. Hut in reference to the vi.-it of the Uovwv t.i Dnnudin. We may possibly have mnc tj say iv>-ju the subjjc; iu a future isaic 'flu Canterbury Jockey Club his followed th-j example of the stewards of the North iKag.. Turf Cub, and disqnal lbd D.-rritt, Fishhook'.- j ickey. from riding on any course where th2 nibs of tht Club are in force, duriiKj t'm pbasarc cv' the Club. There can now iie httb doubt lint the dijq-ial.(icati"ii t»f the lior.se and jockey will become pretty general throughmt i\u Colony. The Artillery Volunteers paraded last evening for carbine drill and inspection of anna. 'J here was a very good muster, and the arms on being inspected were found to b:: in a. capital state, reacting great credit upon tha members of tiie corp3 During the evening Lieut. Greenfield presented Serjeant Hiekey, as the highest scorer in the auntial class firing, with a handsome gold locket, which had been presented to the Company by Corporal Evans. At the meeting of the Hospital Committ33 last evening, the question was brought forward aa to whether the Committee had power to sue for the co3t3 of maintenance am! meilbal attendance of patient 3 who were I known ty> be in a position to pay for the J same. It was st-ited that a large number of j those who h.kd been patients at the Hospital I couhl well have afiorde I to pay for the medi- j eal attendance they received, but had failed | to i!o so. Eventually it was decided to olt-ihi the opinion of Mr. HLdop as to what power the Committee had ia the matter.

Mails for Sydney per Hero close at Auckland at 10 a. m. on Friday.

There wa3 a clean sheet at the Resident Magistrate's Court tlm morning, and consequently there was no sitting.

"We understand th:ib the Oamaru Dramatic Club did not succeed by their late performances in clearing off the debt incurred at a previous performance, though a groat deal has been done towards doing so.

The whole of Mr. JTutcheson's expenses in contesting tlu recent Wellijgton election were subscribed for and presented to him some days ago by a few of his committse.

We hav3 receive 1 the seson.l number of the Neva Zealand Reformzr, a journal established for the purpose of upholding the cause of teniperancD. The Reformer is well pri ted, and contains useful information upon many subjects besides that for which it is ostensibly published. We wish our contemporary every success. We understand that Tommy Dold, the winner of the Handicap Steeplechase at Chriitchurch to-day, is tha property of a local man, Mr. W. Swanson, although he ran in Mr. Ray's name. The horse was purchased during this week by Mr. Swanson, who sent hi* jockey—M'Gregor—to Christchurch to ri.le the horje in the raeo.

A meeting of the Committee of the Mechanics' lint.tute was held last evening for '.lie purpose of d a r ting a repo-t to be laid bef>re the annual meeting O" subscril>ers, to be held to-" orn.w evening. It was reported that a number of books had been received, although fir from the numb r ordered by the Committee.

'j'lic of a series of opadrille assemblies to bo he'd during the coining winter will take place to-morrow evening at the Voluntjcr Hall, dancing to commence at S o'clock. We understan I that the arrangements madearc of the most completo nature. A firstclass band has been engiged, while in orde that the ladies attending the assemblies may !i .ve no:hing to c;mi;il.iiu of, speji ilarr.ing' - H'cnts have been made for their comfort, by iiavin i, a room specially set apart for them, and for the attendance of a lady to take eh irg; of the room.

A uicc:i:ig of gnsle nri f ivouriYe to the f.i matiou of a Ch isty Minsn-el Compvny wis hild list c/cuing at C.irueiMSs" Mus'< W.ircho ise, Mr. W. Canuross bei.ig in the chair. Th jre was a very go >d attendance, and apologies were receive I fur the ab-eucj <f uiherswh-. had expressed their intention to be coma members. It was unauimou ly agreed tn form a'Minstrel Company to be called the Calcined Cn-houhns. Mr. C.irncross waelected lion, secretary, and it was decided that another inciting bhould be h?ld on Friday next, at which the office bearers of thi Company will be elected, and the arranghig of tho programme will be pro ceded with. The meeting then adjourned.

A Scotch newspaper in'orms its readers that the tattlers in Victoria are turning larg2 numbers of stoats ami weasels loose upon their land for the purpose of destroying tlu rabbits. r J he same journal states that some years ago rabbits were introduced into Victoiia for the purpose of " jjrotectiug the crops from the attacks of noxious animals."

We clip the following from the Guardian : —"They Were evidently lovers. The other passengers had watched them closely for an hour or more, and could come to no other conclusion. She was young and fair, and he fondly gized into the depths of her bine eyes as though he were tying to read his future there. When she half rose and turned her face to the carriage window in order to obtain a better view of the sc nery, his left arm -eemed to slip round htr slender wai»t, quite l.atura ly, while his lips were within an inch of h.r soft and ro>y cheek as he whispered to her the names of the mountains in the distance. A young lady of some scven-and-thirty summers, who sat opposite them, once or twice gave a loud sniff of disapproval, and some young fellows in the corner could not htlp tittering ; but the young people seemed to be unconscious of the presence of anyone else, and went on with their billing and cooing. When the train entered the tunnel, one of the male passengers, thinking to have some fun, struck a match, but the sudden flash of light only revealed the pair sitting decorously side by side with their hands clasped affectionately together. With the staking of the match, however, a thought appeared to strike the young lady, -and she evidently considered it high time to explain matters. This is how she did it. When the train left the tunnel, she held her hand towards her companion with a request that he would faiten her glove. He took her dainty little hand in his, and bent fondly over her, while she remarked in a sweet and clear voice,— ' Wouldn't this be nice if you were somebody else's brother?' The other passengers looked as if they had been imposed upon."

The Wanganui district is nuw becoming noted for its grape producing qualities, and it is shortly destined to become famous for its wine. The summi'; tunnel on the lUmutaka, on the railway line from Wellington to Wairarapa, will, it is statx 1 , cost more to line with bricks than it did to excavate. The Bishop of Melbouni3 is represented to have said that ' : a man who is ignorant of the Bible is an uneducated man." What of the Greeks and liomans ? Th-j following paragraph, which we take from a Northern contemporary, throws some light upon the recent advance in the price of shares in one of the Auckland gold-mining companies :—" What's in a name ? A great deal apparently, as far as gambling in mining sciip is concerned. A day or two ago, M-. T. liussell, one of the leviathan speculators in Auckland, purchased from the Kurumri Hill G.M.C. two thousand five hundred of their unallotted shares at a pound a share. As soon as the name of the purchaser became known, the shares advanced seven shillings in price."