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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 879, 8 February 1879, Page 2

The Hon. James Mac.uidrew will arrive in Oamaru on Monday night, and will visit the Waiareka district on Tuesday, probably in connection with the route for the Livingstone railway. Mr. Blair will accompany him. We hop.; that the several matters which ret pure the attention of the Government, will be Mtimu'tted to Mr. Maean.trew on this occasion, in order that he may see that there is no eoolne.-s. Work on numerous railways lias been, and is about to be, commenced, and we hope that the expenditure of money that this wilt entail u ill give an impetus to business. We hear once more of our railway to Livingstone, and it is to be hoped that the route it is to take will soon be decided, so that we may immediately participate in the favors which are being distributed by the t rtA'cratcent.

On Monday the Kakantit, Waiareka, ami Waitaki lloads Boards will meet for the purpose of electing members of the Oamaru Harttor iSoard. The Waiareka Hoard will meet at half-past I<> o'clock, and the Kakanut and Waitaki IJoard< at noon.

A meeting of the managers of the Oamaru CVmetery w.x-« held last eveiitii-.'. at whieh th»-re wer»> present :—Mf.-srs tdbbs (in the ctiair). SEithuski. Kidd. Wan.sbrough. and I 'towus (secretary}. It was decided to ask Messrs. IVact. and Medlieott to audit the account* tor the jtast year. Mr. Urtght's departure from ]>imcdin habeen delayed, and, not satisfied with his nnattceess in the late religious controversy with Mr. Green, lie has signified his intention of tackling Mr. Varley. Mr. Varley tias delivered an address on "Can I know certainly that lam saved, and how':" ami Mr. Bright will follow suit to-morrow evening with ** Can anyone know certainly that his neighbor is lest, an I how?" We have been favored by Mr. Ilannay, of the Railway Commissioner's Otßce. with a pass on the railways for a reporter. It is stipulated that we are only to use it for! reporting purposes: as though it were likely [ tfiat we would be so wicked as to do such a j thing as use it f»r any other purpose. We notice that there will be a slight change in the services in new Tves-slruet

Halt to-morrow evening. The address for th<T evening to be ujioii •' Cospei Temperance." * oiod Templars ami others interested in this subject, whieh is becoming one of great moment, will doubtless muster in great force.

We direct attention to an advertisement of the local agent tor the < 'otuniercia! Jsu;ldtnjf acid lavestment Society, wherein the shareholders are requested to hand in their paast-Wrks. The lionus additions are to be made t» the Woks of investing members. We understand that, from the liberality ami prosperity of this long-established Society, it w steadily growing in favor with the public. thering the Highland sports on the Caledonian Grounds, the pipers and other Binstetan* were marshalled by a well-known test*tt-ir of Presbyterian iKHahnody. An old lady who mikes her boast that (hiring the last twal years she has never travelled out o' ateht »* Pttnedin. inquired, '"Wha' body > that W the big {attnch, wha struts so proudly in front »' the music?" ''That's," replied the wag accosted, *• the new Governor, Sir Hercules Robinson." " Dear me,"' said the ©ld lady, *' dae ye tell me sac ; and is he really sic a ground musician that he maun march at the head of the kilties ♦ Wha' big chufta he has got. Jll "arrant he can sing when he like*, for he has got a singing tnooth '" " Sing. woman I" said an elderly man. evidently her husband, who stood alongside listening; "sing, ye gowk .' Is it any wonder that he should sing when lie's bora and bred a precentor."—Dnncdiu Age. The Clyde has licen abandoned to the underwriters. The principal part of the cargo has been saved, and it is believed that it will be possible to re-launch the vessel. A Glasgow paper gives a list of upwards of IsO failures in Glasgow and the West of Scotland, directly and indirectly traceable to the stoppage of the City of Glasgow Bank. The total liabilities of Scotch firms who have i been dragged down are L 2,500,000.

An exchange str.tes that Mr Mark Lemoa, a son of the well-known-late editor of i&e London Puncli, has just been admitted as an inmate to the Hospital at Greytown. He has been residing in Masterton during the past three months, doing.odd' work as .collector and clerk." He is noiv suffering, we understand, from low fever and lung disease. "The Hallelujah Lassies, or Salvation Army," a body of lady preachers, under the command of a well-known clergyman, Rev. W. Booth, have been creating some excitement in the North of England. The stock of paid notes for five years by the Bank of England, is about 68 millions in number, and they fill 13,000 boxes, which, if placed side by side, would reach 2| miles. 1,000,000 notes, placed in a pile, would reach rather lilgher than the Monument on Fish street Hill, and all the notes in the Bank so placed would be ,six miles high ; or, if joined end to end, would form a ribbon 11,000 miles long ; their superficial extent is rather less than that of Hyde Park ; their original value was over L 2.200,000,000.200,000,000 ; and thenweight over SO tons. 2so note of a less amount than L 0 is issued by the Bank. The Milton Pottery "Works still continue on a career of success. So excellent lias been the work turned out that an order has been received from a Dunediii wholesale house to supply tea-pots, pic-dishes, and jam-pots, as last as they can be made.—Dunedin Age. A curious pamphlet, entitled "What we have fought for?" has just been seized on the Russian frontier. It is written by a man named DragonianofT, and was printed at Geneva. Of this little work many thousands have been sent to Russia for distribution. Jt attacks the principle of absolute monarchy embodied in the Czar, and declares that the Oriental Question cannot be settled as long as there is a Turk in Europe. So singularly like Mr. Gladstone's theories are those contained in this ftroc/tnrc that it is suspected that the ex-Premier has to some extent inspired Mr. Dragomanoff.

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