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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 644, 27 May 1878, Page 2

We are pleased to learn from the best aut'aoi ity—that of Dx\ Hazard, his medical attendant —that Goudard is fast recovering from the injuries received by the late coach accident. The fJiock occasioned by the sad occurrence appears to Lave been more severe than the cuts and bruises he received ; and now that the lirst sho'jk is over, his health is returning so rapidly that it is expected that he will be able to leave the house tomorrow or next day.

Numerous complaints havo from time to time beca made of windows in private houses and the glasses in the public lamps being broken by boys throwing. Hitherto the culprits have managed to escape scot free ; but Mr. A. Toms, Inspector of Nuisances, managed to catch three of the young rascals last week, and they were called upon to answer at the Kcsident Magistrate's Court this morning a charge of having on Wednesday last broken the glass in one o~ the Corporation lamps in Tees-street, 'i heir names \--.r . I'eter Young, James Lairu.'ut, and Thc.iiiu Hudson. The latter did not appear, it having transpired that the br.y Young, although in company with the others, had not thrown stones, the charge; again-t him was dismissed. He was then p!ac d : n the witness box. and gave evidence as to having seen Lainoi.t -brow a stone at the lamp and nih-s it, and •. Hudson then threw a stone and. broke the ' ' ". His Woi'oki'i here adjourned the < ■ co-

moriow in order that steps might i.o ...';en t'< co:;mul the boy Hudson to appear.

At thu v;.'':o;: ■■ c'liiivh •' yesterday special -.- .'•.■i'OiiC'.:j v/cro mailoio the iate fatal coach ■■.odd ;•■-', bei; g oii'ercd up for the . n:-viv'.ii'.; .-.■..h'-rer . ;.i:d [W the relatives of .h-,e \-']■,; ;.,.-!. ih.j.r iivc-i by the sad Th"- line i"i-:i;ii ('■ ?.l Pohd to the main line of i;diwav v."ili. it is expected, shor'dy ha an a.:eo.; p : ;'dol :aer. The '.Vaikouaiu County i.'..u;i-i! ia favoiall;-, and there is now no ■ ;\i.~t;ii;lo in she v.ay of its construction. When connected by railway 'with Coal I'ciiiir, wo may ;ea>on,ib!y hope to pnrticip■'.';" in the advantages that should accrue l'iviii Laving a coal mine within two or three hi.urs raoway travel from us,

John Jay. who figured at the Resident

Magistrate* Court this morning on two c.'iiH'gc-s of being drunk ami disorderly, must be particularly partial to the cup that both cheers and 'inebriates. On Saturuay night ho was taken into custody on the charge of having partaken too freely of inebriating beverages. lie was admitted to bail yesterday morning, and availed himself of the opportunity of raising his drooping spirits by again iuuulgiug in exhilarating waters, and auiiiii found himself in the hands of the police. Wlun placed in the dock this morning he pleaded guilty to the soft i;:ipe::.'.hmeiit, and was ordered to contribute LI to tiie revenue of his offended country.

We have been requested to intimate to members oi' the Oamaiu Christy's that there will be mi n:\ioticu this cxeuing, the liasonic Mail b-jing otherwise engaged. Membors will meet for practice on Thursday evening, at S o'clock.

Mr. Daniel O'Eoricc, the respected landlord of the Terminus Hotel, Ngapara, is about to retire from business, Mr. George Harper, late of the liailw.ay Department, having secured the lease of the premises. Y\"c hope that the new lessee will continue to conduct the hotel respectably, as Mr. O'itorke has procured for the hotel a name for comfort, order, and decency not to be jurpasscd by any other country hostelry. \\"o are informed that a select supper will be given to Mr. U'Ho;ko by a few friends on his departure from tuo township to devote iiis attuir.ion and talents to rural pursuits.

The Turkish, bondholders are asking what will become of the guarantees attached to tiie Turkish loans in the approaching dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. The adjourned sitting of the District Court will be held to-morrow. The business co conic before the Court consists solely of applications in bankruptcy. Careful conrouiation shows the adult males in the Colony, exclusive of Chinese and Maoris, to be about 130,000. Of these only (io.O'jO are now on the electoral roll. It is estimated that the proposed Manhood SaiiVa;_'o i ill of the Government will give vota-s to between 3J,G;;O and 40,000 more. The remainder will repre "int the " loafing " element. j

Mr. O'Meagher's letter [will appear tomorrow. ••. Parliament has been prorogued fromtha 23rd inst. to the 15th June next.

If those persons who are in the habit of picking up the copies of the Mail thrown from the trains for subscribers at Richmond's Crossing ami elsewhere on the lines of the district, would be good enough to communicate with the publisher at the Mail office, they could obtain free copies, provided they ceased to interfere with those that properly belong to other people.

A general meeting of members of the Oamaru Steeplechase Club is called for Friday next, at 3 p.m., at the Empire Hotel, when all gentlemen interested are invited to attend.

In another column of our present issue will be found notifications from the Clerk of the Waiareka and Kakanui Eoad Boards, fixirg the dates and places of meetings of the ratepayers for nominating and electing members of the Boards.

Mails for the United Kingdom, etc., via San Francisco, per City of New York ; and mails for Sydney, per Rotorua, close at Auckland at noon on Tuesday, 28th inst.

Mr. A. H. Maude will sell on the Ist of June a property consisting of 431 acres of wheat land, situated opposite the residence of Mr. John M'Lean, North Waitaki, and seven miles from the North Waitaki Railway Station, The land is amongst the best wheat land in the district, and is ready for cultivation.

As we predicted would be the ease, Messrs Guthrie and Laruacli's New Zealand Timber and Woodware Factories Company has been one of the most successful undertakings that has ever been started in the Colony.

The committee of the Philharmonic Society contemplate selecting Haydn's Imperial Mass as the subject for one part of next concert. Copies will be procurable after to-morrow evening of Messrs. Ronaync and Cotfccrell.

The Timaru Herald says that the following land was disposed of on Thursday iast by the Canterbury Waste Lands Board : Ashley, 4SO acres ; Salwyn, 6G5 acres 2 roods; Akaroa, 20 acres; Ashburton, 3514 acres 1 rood ; Gera'diuo, J292 acres 3 roods : Waimate, 45G7 acres.

The guards on the New Zealand Railways are being furnished with new and distinctive uniforms manufactured by the New Zealand Clothing Factory,

The reading-room connected with the well-known hotel conducted by Messrs. Watson Bros., Dunedia, has just boon reembellished under the supervision of Mr. H. S. Fish. It always has been a favorite place of resort for those who desired to

while away a few minutes profitably amongst the latest principal Knglish, American, and ('olouial magazines and papers ; Luc it is now more thau ever inviting. The proprietors of this reading-room, which lias ever been a boon to visitors from the country as well as to the residents of Dunedin. are deserving of the support that lias been accorded them in the past, and have every ■ easoii to anticipate an increase in thai support in the future.

A special correspondent of the LijtteHou Times says :—Rumours are current of some gigantic hind speculation on foot across the Waikato confiscation boundary. Several

names arc mentioned in connection with it, and the area stated varies from 200.000 to 300.000 acres. The land at present, it is understood, belongs to the Ngatimauiopotos, a tribe of whom Rewi is chief. It is whispered 1 hat the bargain is almost closed, and that George Grey's agreement with the Kins natives will help to the completion of speculation." There is little room for doubt that Mr Whitaker and his friends have something to do with this transaction. The position and the area are strangely similar to those of the block to which we drew attention during last session. The Government would be warranted in adopting extreme measures to prevent the alienation to these speculators of so valuable a tract of country ; and, in doing so, they would be backed up by tl'.c people of the Colony.

The Hon. Mr. Waterhousc is said to bo on his way to the Colony, and will arrive at Wellington in time for the meeting of Parliament.

Within a period of three years, Mr. Maitland, whose son was fatally injured at the late coach accident, has lost two brothers, a father, and a son.

A system of self-levelling berths has been used on one of the vessels of the Guion line of Atlantic steamships, and has been considered to have proved very successful in obviating the miseries of sea-sickness. The berths are so arranged as to remain level in any sea, thus removing at once one of the causes oi the dreaded "mal de mer."

The Turks informed one the correspondents of the Times that if he would consent to draw uuoii them for facts, they would make him a present of LIOOO, and they were greatly surprised when he delined to accede to the bargain.

The Earl of Beaconsfield is to-day, of all men in England, the most anxious for war. It is related of him that a year ago he was asked by a leading Conservative peer why lie did not force his will upon his Cabinet, to which he replied, " When the right time comes I will have my way, come what will." Re is anxious for posthumous fame. This is one of the moving springs of his whole policy. Nothing (says the historian Froudo) would please him better than to end his strange career by going out in a blaze of lireworks and amid the smoke of gunpowder. If he does not succeed in setting England and Russia, by the cars, he will most undoubtedly retire from public life on the plea of declining health and old age.

Tbe SoutH Canterbury Board of Education invites applications for the post of Secretary and Inspector of Schools, the salary to be LSOO per annum, with travelling expenses. The Board is wise in combining the two offices, as it curtails officialism and its consequent humbug.