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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 536, 19 January 1878, Page 2

A number of ladies are busily engaged collecting money to be devoted to ladies' prize to be fired for at the annual meeting of the North Otago Parte Association. They have so far met with considerable success. and a very handsome prize will doubtless be secured.

At the nomination which took place today at the Athonreum, Kakanui, Mr. David Booth aud Mr. Alex. Thompson were nominated for the seat for Kakanui riding in the Waitaki Council, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. Wheat-ley. Mr. Martiu, returning officer, conducted the proceedings. Each candidate briefly stated that he would, if elected, do his best to promote the interests of the district. Mr. .Shrimski is not a candidate.

We learn that Mr. W. 11. Puddicombe. has been appointed by the Primative Methodist Conference as missionary for the Timaru, Oamaru, and Waimate districts.

A meeting of the Committee of the North Otago Turf Club, for the purpose of considering the programme for the forthcoming race meeting, will be held at the Umpire Hotel on Monday evening, at eight o'clock. The only business at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning -was a charge against B. Atkinson for allowing a horse to be at large. The defendant stated that at ton o'clock the previous evening the horse was secured in the stable, and that he must have been liberated by some mi-ohievou-pcrsnn. The charge was dismissed.

A meeting of the Committee of the North Otaco I!iile Association was held last evening at the Royal Hotel. The President ( Dr. Ue Lautouv), occupied the chair, and there were present Moss s. Headland, Morris, E Harding, and (Hon. Secretary). The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, a quan'it.y of routine business was gone through and the handicap settled for tho January competition. On the motion of Mr. Atkinson, seconded by Mr. Morris, a Sub-Committee, consisting of the President, and Messrs. M'Corkindalc and Atkinson, was appointed to report upon the desirableness of getting np a concert in aid of the funds to provide prizes to be competed for at the Association's meeting to bo held on the 53rd March. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the business.

We have been requested by Mr. Snmpter, on behalf of the Oamaru cricketers, to thank those gentlemen who kindly acted as umpires and scorers on the occasion of the late match betvveon the Australians and Oamaru Twenty-two.

Mrs. Boreham yesterday afternoon reported to tho police that her son, Jacob Boreham, while looking for birds' nests the previous day, had found a human skull in the Papakaio Valley, near the residence of the late Mr. Borrie. Mounted Constable Welch was despatched to the spot, and returned this afternoon with the skull, which had been found between a couple of huge rocks, Search was made for the remainder of the bones, but without avail, not a vestige of any human remains being discovered beyond the skull, which appears to have lain in the spot for some time. How or by what means it came there is a mystery, as is also the hiding place of the remainder of the skeleton. The skull has a lengthy crack along tha side, but whether it is the result of foul play or otherwise could not be judged by our reporter.

Thp Dunedin Star says it has been favored -with the perusal of a letter received by a resident in Dunedin, from a passenger who Trent home by the Loch Ryan, which left Melbourne in the latter part of last year, in which it is stated that Sullivan, the murderer, was a second cabin passenger in the boat. The convict was discovered a month after the Loch Ryan left Melbourne.

The Wed C\-u.sl Time*, in reporting proceedings in the Hokitika Bankruptcy Court, states that His Honor Judge We3ton '"' commented, severely on the system of bills of sale, and expressed a strong desire to make cn-taiu merchants disgorge other' people's goods, which they managed to take possession of under the bills of sale. His Honor

also expressed his opinion that a great many persons thought that they had only to file a schedule, and go through, the Court; but while he occupied the Bench, he intended to make searching examinations into these cases. With regard to the duties of trustees, His Hohor was very emphatic. He held that it was their bounden duty to see that all creditors got equal benefit,; and even although there waslittle remuneration for the office, in the public interest they ought to he very painstaking and careful."