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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 602, 6 April 1878, Page 2

The quarterly uniteil service for children of all denominations -will be held in St. Paul's Church at three o'clock to-morrow.

Mails for Australia per Arawsta will cloae at the Bluff at 11 a.m. on the 9th inst. Sir John Coorle is expected to arrive at Temuka in a little over a week.

The harque Lanarkshire, jnst arrived at {Wellington brings 17 hogsheads, 18quarterIcasks, "and 123 cases of wine, beer, and spirt's, consigned to " Major^Bßnipbell.' legislative Assembly." HowilWankfttkjWe should be that the representatives ?|*ithe .people are sober men, or all this and the next would of a very short session. We fcbjnk JfcSt rt woui&:?&e long, because the vfsßdVgkept -at Bellamy's are really excellenfcpfchis -we can vouch for, having sampled thffliaTlast.session and when a man becomes aec.ustdm^d-to them he is somehow careles3 about leaving the vicinity of the House. Speaking for ourselves, we were. It must be nice to be a he- talks or not nervousness, excitement, or some other kind dispensation of providence comes to -nis aid; oleaves bis tongue to the roof of/his "mouthy and .proclaims him thirsty. He retires-from" the Chamber when these frequent attacks are upon him, and no one a°ks him where he is going, for everybody knows Uis » refreshing variation from the monotony of one of Mr. Fox's dry disquisitions on Local Option to take refuse in Bellamy's, call for a sherry, a cigar, and the Mail. It is considered correct to place the class of sherry between him and the light, pass it two or three times underneath his nose, slightly wrinkle that organ, and proclaim it pretty good He treats the cigar similarly, when we feel convinced that he seldom indulges in anything better tjian "twopennies" during recesses, and as to sherry, he only enjoys seeing the colour, except when luxuriating at Bellamy's. An hotelkeeper at Duntroon yesterday ■ travelled to Oamaru from that township for the purpose of nominating a brother and sister from Devonshire, Having proceeded to the police office and procured the necessary forms, she filled it up, as she thought, in a proper manner, and with the idea of utilising the blank portion of the document, she ; wrote a letter to her brother stating, amongst other matters, that she had n"miand his sister. It was shown to

a fiicucl, who kindly liinted that it was as good as wa<te paper ; and the poor nominator left Oamaru in disgust, resolved not to endeavor to unravel the mystery of how to correctly fill up a nominated immigrants' form. This is one of the effects of the new system, which any common-sense person could have predicted would accrue. This hotelkeeper travelled 60 miles in order to take the initiatory Bteps for bringing to the Colony a brother and sister, who we have every reason to believe would have made good colonists ; but she was baffled in the endeavor because, as might have happened to manv others, there was no representative of the department here to* advise .her as to how it should be done.' '•'■'■ ' : At the Re.-ident Magistrate's Court this morning, before T. W. Parker, Esq., R.M., Kichard ICott. ,and ; Andrew, Black were charged'with having'made use of obscene language in.a public place qn.t.be jjfch April, hue the evidence 'not beiiig 'conclusive they were dismissed. James Kelly, for being drunk and disorderly, and against whom 34 previous convictions were recorded, was fined I 5 or 14 days' "imprisonment, with hard labour. William Black, for bMiitt drunk and disorderly, was fined 10s. or 4S hours' imprisonment; aud James White, for the same offence, was cautioned and discharged. Mr. J. A. Connell lias presented an accurate and c-mprehen-ive map of Otago, showing the boundaries of the various land districts, the position of the hundreds, deferred-payment areas, goldfields, &c, to the Waste Lands Board, for which he received the thanks of that body. The Canterbury land sale 3 on Thursday la=t amounted to 2556 acres 9 perches, as follow :—Selwyn, 11G"2a. 9p. ; Ashley, 351 a. 3r. ; Ashbuitoii, 966 a. ; (Seraldine, 32a. lr. ; Waunate. 4ta. The sum realised was L 5112 3d.

The cricket match, eleven of the Oamaru Club v. Eighteen of Reidston, Maheno. and Kakanui, which was to have been played today, did not take place, owing to some difficulty having been experienced in getting a team together to represent the country. The vacancies in the Senate of the New Zealand University, caused by non-attend-ance, have been tilled up by the re-appoint-ment of the Hon. R. Campbell, the Hon. H. .1. Miller, and the Rev. Dr, Stuart; and by the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Roseby. The following are the census returns for Invercargill : -Town of Invercargill—Males, 1544; female?, 1757 ; total, 3031. East Invercargill—Males, 302; females, 31S; total, G2O. North Invercargill—Males, 214: females, 194 : total, 40S, .South InverearCill—Males. 273 : females. 255 ; total, 328 ; Avcnel—Males, ],V2 ; females, 159 ; total, oil. Gladstone—Males, 105; females, 122; total, 525. Grand total for town and .suburbs, 5725. It will be seen that the populations of Oamaru, Timaru, and Invercargill are nearly similar in amount, Oamaru having slightly the advantage, Mr. A. Fraser, of Lawrence, has been badly hurt through falling iu front of a reaper while endeavoring to stop his bolting horses. The knives of t.ie machine severely lacerated his legs. A testimonial, which is likely to amount to between lAOOO and LSOOO, is to be presented to the Hon. Graham Berry, in recognition of the arduous work he has gone throu h as leader of the Assembly, and defender of its privileges against the Upper House. Here is an important item of intelligence which seems to have been confined to the Australian papers. Surely we, too, are interested in the manceuvrings of the enemy: —"Japan.—Two of the Russian fleet, Bazan and Hazbamak, have arrived at Namasska ; the Beannik Shoo was the only one expected. They only stay a week or two, and then sail for Australian waters, via Shanghai." The Bellmont station, on the Waiau, iu the Western district, has been sold for a little und- r LSOOO. The property comprised 1500 acres freehold, 8400 acres leasehold, well fenced and substantially improve 1 ; also, 4000 good sheep, and a few head of horses and cattle. The proprietors of the Melbourne Age have been served, with a writ at the instance of the Hon. Alexander Fraser, for having, at the request of the Illustrated London News, copied iuto the Age an advertisement announcing the decease of the Hon. Alexander Eraser's brother in the Holborn Workhouse, and eommeutfd on it as calculated to seriously damage the reputation of the Colony in the person of a Minister of tha Crown, who also drew L3OO a year as amember of the Council during a twelve, month's absence in Europe. Damages are laid at LIO.OOO. We hear that the final result of the borings in the roailstead on the site of the proposed mole, as carried out by the Engineer to the T imaru Harbor Board, have sh:>wii that utidfrneaih a 7 or § feet layer of •.'ravel and clay, a hard rocky bottom exists, — Timaru Herald. Dr. Somerville, tjie Evangelist, is now at Nelson. From thence he will go to Hoki- , tika, Christohurch, and Dunedin,

. -We learn, from reliable authority that a line from Duntroon along the Hakateramea Valley will probably be constructed by a private company. Several capitalists _are now giving the matter their most serious consifleration, and there is scarcely room to doubt but that the line will shortly be an accomplished-fact. '■• •'" ,;'

/r Now that special trains are beihg.rnn fori I the purpose of keeping pace with the grain? traffic on the Waiareka line, it inight be practicable to run-a mid-day passenger train, which would prove of tb. 04 settlers of that district. At present they leave Wairareka for Oamaru early- in the morning, and, whether it is necessary or not, they are compelled to remain In town till evening. A carriage linked on to the special trains that are run would meet the object in view. Such an arrangement would be doubly advantageous, as. whilst those who come to Oamaru by the first train could return without loss of time, others could come to Oamaru by, the trains returning them, and: leave for home by the evening train. Bret Harte is said to be in debt to the tune of about L 12.000. He writes less than formerly, and his income is said to be about 4000dol. a year, while he lives at the rate of double that amount. He sold his " Two Men of Sandy Bar" for 60Qdp}s, Hifl hair is turn|ng ey.ey, and he is seldom seen in society. He is a slow, painstaking, laborious writer. • The address of the Legislative Council of Victoria, which was submitted to the consideration of that body by Sir Charles Sladen on March 19th, is one of the most important, State Papers that has ever been prepared iu tl at Colony, In it the Council is asked to plainly intimate that it considers the Governor guilty of partiality, condemns his signing of the warrants, and asks him to send home the address in order that the Imperial authorities may be well posted up on both sides of the question. It also informs his Kxeelleney that- the Appropriation Bill which the CQunell laid aside in ' December last "is irrevocably disposed of : so far as the Council is concerned," and 1 contains other information that oan hardly fail to engage his Excellency's most earnest consideration.

We "-tried, to go to sleep last night at pur ustial hour. ; On one side of us came chanted loudly "Listen to the Mocking Bird " from otif amateur minstrel friends. On the other a chorus of calves galvanised by the opposition ; into ceaseless activity gang $a ! Bah ! It was only by diligently' perusing one of our own leading- articles that we got any sleep at all.—Exchange.