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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 882, 12 February 1879, Page 2

This afternoon a cricket match took place between the boys attending Mr. Arwtcads school and those of the fifth (Mr. Fidler s) class of the Grammar School Clnb fKito, captain). The former mafic IS in their first innings,, and the Grammar School hoya 101.

Attention is drawn to an advertisement requesting the co-operation of the instrumentalists of the town in forming a hanil in connection with the Philharmonic Society. A meeting i» called for Friday night next, at » o'clock, at the M.Ut. office.

The steam crane constructed by Mr. John Anderson. Christehnreft. for the Timarn Harbor Board, is completed, and has stood the te«t. It will probably he delivered in th*. rmm* ft a fortnight. and h*. working within a month.

The Blue- Cliffs property has been purchased privately by Mr. K. I!. Rhodes, for LM.SOO. Seeing that the property only consists of 8000 acres freehold, with a license to- depasture on 25.C00 acres at a heavy rent. and 22.000 sheep, the price may tie viewed a» an improvement upon the prices that have daring the present season of depression been offered and realised for similar properties.

Every preparation is being made hy the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society for the reception of its share of the Whitehall ova which is expected to arrive by the San Francisco mail in the middle of the present month.

The contractor finished hts contract for the additions to the Kaiapoi mitts last week, and nearty all the new machinery is now erected and witt be at work shortly. With the newmachinery the Company wilt he able to turn out any kind of tweed that may lie required. We understand that as soon a* the whole machinery is fairly at work the directors intent! throwing the mitts open to the public for a day.—Lyttetton Times.

The monthly competition of the North Otago Kifte Association will take place on Saturday next. We call attention to an advertisement in another column regarding a trnnk. which has apparently been carried away from the railway station by mistake.

We are pleased to observe that Mr. Howard Haywood, who is making a tonr through the Colony for the purpose of ohtainins photographs of all the principaK'otomaf buildings and scenes of intercut, wilt give the pwbtic of Oarnarw an opportunity of viewing the mutt* of his trip this evening, at the Volunteer Halt, la addition to views of the startling scenery with which New Zealand: abounds, there wilt be exhibited some interesting views of Oamarn. the transparencies having been t,*ken by Messrs. Farrier and Rock. We have not seen the exhibition: but from the various newspapers we team that it possesses merit. At at! events, it is just such an entertainment that children more especially should attend, for they will be afforded an idea, by seeing these pictures- of what the country they live in is like, although they might never have an opportunity of Seeing the reality.