The Evening Mail. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1877.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 407, 17 August 1877, Page 2

The Evening Mail. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1877.

Owing to pressure on our space we are compelled to hold over a quantity of matter, amongst which is a report of the Harbour Board meeting which took place to-daj r .

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, a lad of about ten years of age named William Hutchens, was brought before J. Udall, Esq, J.P., as a neglected child. It appears that the boy's parents had left the district, and he was sent to the Industrial School for four years. John M 'Curdy, charged with having been drunk and disorderly last night in Thames-street, was discharged with a caution, this being his first appearance before the Court. A meeting of the Provisional Committee of the Waitaki County Acclimatisation Society w,as held to-day at the County Council Chambers. There were presentMessrs. J. Eeid (in the chair), Borton, Fenwick, Wheatley, Menlove, Fleming, M'Lean, M'Lennan, Steward, and Connell (Hon. Sec. pro. tern). The rules of the Christchurch Acclimatisation Society were adopted, with necessary alterations. It was decided that a general meeting of the Society should be held on the 31st inst., for the purpose of electing office-bearers, and transacting other business necessary to set the Society in full working order. Mr. Newsham, collector for the Oamaru Hospital, has informed us that subscriptionlists for that institution were entrusted with the platelayers on the railway upwards of a week t.go. Already the results are turning out most satisfactory, more than ordinary interest being evinced by the railway employes.

Messrs. Fleming and Hedley, under instructions from the bailiff of the RM. Court, will sell, at their stores, at 12 o'clock to-morrow, a miscellaneous assortment of goods, the property cf Alfred Wells.

The football match between fifteen of our local men and a like number from Timaru will take place on the Cricket Ground tomorrow, the game commencing at 1 o'clock, and should the weather prove fine, we have no doubt there will ba a large number of onlookers.

Mr". A. H. Maude will sell to-morrow, from 12 noon to 5 p.m., and from 6.30 to 9 a.m., the balance of Mr. J. Moss's stock of drapery, &c. Sale to take place on the premises opposite the Post Office.

Messrs. Connell and Clowes will sell tomorrow, at their store, Tyne-streefc, at noon, a consignment of pines, cupressus, flowering and ornamental shrubs, *c, from the Eskbank Nursery ; also, at the Earn? place and hour, 1000 bags Danish oats.

A ploughing match has been arranged to take place at Temuka on the 7th September next. Although that town is some distance from Oamaru, yet a good sprinkling of those in our district who take an interest in ploughing matches may be expected to take advantage of the speedy locomotion afforded by the railway.

Another temperance paper is shortly to be added to the list of colonial literature. On September 6 next will be published the Temperance Gazette, a monthly publication.