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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 605, 10 April 1878, Page 2

We Leg to offer an apology to Messrs. D. O'Rorke, J. J. Aideuzli, Patrick Mattery, .lames Rnoney, James Shapman, John Hill, John O'Brien, John Rooney, for having stated in last Monday's issue that Ngapara was the scene of a disgraceful drunken row on Sunday morning last, and that certain disturbers of the peacefulness of that usually pleasant little township were using bad language, and an empty porter bottle with which to enforce their arguments. In our paragraph we inferred that these noisy and quarrelsome persons were Irishmen ju=t as we might point out that men guilty of the same improprieties were new-chum Englishmen, or hailed from the Caledonian Isle. Drunkenness and riotous conduct, wo regret to sav, are not confined to Irishmen, and in writing as we did we meant no shir on the nationality of the drunken and noisy rascals —for Ireland luio given birth to some of the bust men the world ever saw—nor were we desirous of being in the slightest degree personal. An accident of a painful nature occurred last night in the printing establishment of our contemporary. A boy named William I Fleming was engaged taking the printed sheets from the machine, when, by some means, his left arm became eutargled in the machinery, and was severely lacer.ited, the bone being exposed. Surgical aid was at once procured, and the wound dressed. The Mayor, as Chairman of the Committee appointed to collect information with reference t» the j>roposed Oamaru-Naseby Railwav, has convened a meeting of the Committee, to be held at the County Council Chambers on Friday next, at 2 p.m. The monthly meeting of the Committee of the Worth Otago Coursing Club will be held in Messrs. Julius and Balmer's offices to-; morrow, at 11 is, m,, the County Council Chandlers being required for the meeting of Council. We would draw the attention oi those interested to a notification of the Oams.ru Mutual Benefit Building Society, which appears in another Column.