The Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1877.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 500, 5 December 1877, Page 2

The Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1877.

There were no ease/ down for hearing at the Eesident Court this morning.

The installation, 0 f officers in the Oamaru Kilwinning S.C., will take place this evening, and th<, n.rmnn.l Masonic banquet will be held imnitdiately afterwards.

The Omaru of the San Francisco mail was ] 3 y the 10.30 a.m. train from the North, an( j was delivered during the afternoon.

The monthly meeting cf the Mechanics' Institute Committee takes pl ac e at eight o'clock to-morrow evening.

According to the local paj.-, erj the team t? represent Palmerston in the inatcT 1 the Oamaru and Palmerston Cricket Clubs, to be played on Saturday next, will be chosen from the following list Messrs. J. Everest, B. H. Cathcart, AY. Cobden, M. Fagan, Spencer, C. Crump, C. Smail, E. Davis, It. Sunley, AY. Everest, J. T>. Kevt, T. D. Belle t, Foster, M. Snodgrass, H. Smith.

Mr. Mollwo will deliver a lecture in the Masonic Hall to-morrow evening, the subject chosen being " The Eastern Question; Past and Present." We have no doubt that the lecture will be a very interesting one, as Mr. Mollwo is a native of Russia, and according to the Dunediu Press, his lectures on the Eastern Question are well worth hearing.

The adjourned annual meeting of the County Council was held to-day, at which the Hon. Bobert Campbell was unanimously re-elected Chairman. A report of the proceedings will be found elsewhere.

Some people like to do the thing grand. They delight in making their friends believe that their cash, and their liberality also, is unlimited. An instance came under our notice to-day. In one of the rooms in the Parliament lobbies set apart especially for certain members of the Civil Service, three empty champagne bottles have been noticed on the table for the last four mornings. The telegraph boys and the unfortunate fellows who prowl about the lobbies button-holing members, have watched these bottles with eager eyes and inwardly regretted that they could not "do the thing" in like manner. They little knew, however, that the same three bottles had kept up appearances for the last week. They were opened on Monday evening late, emptied, and carefully stowed away. Since then gingerbeer lias done duty, but the bottles have been placed 011 the table every evening to carry out the delusion. And so Solomon's experience is verified that all is vanity and vexation of spirit.— Wellington A rff us.