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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 886, 17 February 1879, Page 2

Abortt SO immigrants ex ship Wellington wilt arrive per Maori to-night. These, we Finjif. wttl iti'i-lKtto a number of single girls amt farm laborer*. They will be open to *>n Wednesday. A very serious' accident has happened to a workman named Sprigg. He was to-<tay discharging coal for Mr. Carrie, ami while mntting dawn tfiw line topttt down tiie brake dt a waggon, he became jammed between the waggon and Mr. Maude's store. He » much bvuwed, acid, it is feared, has suffered internal injury. ati«£ now ties in the Hospital. The l*ort l.'arwin tins is! interrupted north of Catherine. If "Observer" will senrl n.H his correct name, tre shall he gtad to insert his letter. As announced. Mr. C G. Moore last evening gave the second address last evening ttpwn ( fosfiel Temperance, at the New Tecs street Halt. The attendance again was vcry good, manifesting tint.* an interest in the subject taken nj». The lecturer having forcibly shown the effects upon the l>ody. and the prospective ruin of the soul, by the continuant:© of intemperance, suggested, amongst other remedies, the opening of a coffee palace, instruction of tiie youth in temperance principles, and the restoration oi the Bible into the public schools, ami was listened to with great attention ami earnestness throughout. Instrumentalists desirous of joining the band of the Philharmonic Society are reUttested to meet this evening at Mr. Jones' residence, at S o'clock, for practice. Those having parts of the Masa are particularly retptested to he present. At the U.M. Court to-day, before T. A. Clowest, Em(.. J. P.. John Munro was charged witii having been drunk in Thames-street on the l«th. The prisoner wa3 discharged with a caution. Henry Yorke was also charged with being Jrnnk and disorderly in Thamesstreet on the IGth, and discharged with a caution. The market should certainly be well supplied with coal for some time to come. for ;i> tea.* than three vessels, laden with that very useful article, arrived in port yesterday from Newcastle. Thcac arc the barque* Caberfeidh and Palace, and the three-masted schooner Entelle. Beside* these, the barque William Wilson brought a full cargo a few days since, and is now busy unloading at the wharf. From the tenor of a private telegram which was received in Timaru on Saturday last it is thought probable that the ship Piako arrived off Lyttlcton Heads on that day. A vessel similar to the Piako passed in the vicinity of Port Chalmers on Friday last. That useful and well-conducted publication, the Volunteer Gazette, has just entered upon he third year of its existence, under the able management of Mr. T. Chalmers Re id. In an article on the event, the Gazette says :—" For the future no pains will lie spared to render the ' own orgau' of the Volunteer Force more interesting and more useful. This year a ten-guinea prize will be given for the best essay on some subject to be hereafter prescribed, and various improvements trill be made in the geVup of the paper. As this will entail additional expense, we look for the loyal

support of all Volunteers, not only in the matter of subscribers, but also in that of contributors."

I We are prone to grumble at the hardness of the times—the illiberality of the banks, and the thoughtlessness or inability of our. debtors to pay their debts—but the following pictures a deplorable.,state of„trade from preserved 'has entered &pdn a; winter which jwill witojess terrible pfaTOtion among tens p£ Cotton, coal,(and saiplight. "Wnting at month, the special correspondent of the Engineer, after recounting how the iron masters have told their men that without further reduction of wages they cannot possibly compete with French and Belgian firms, he proceeds to say : —" I went over our iron workers' district last Friday. It presents a pitiable appearance. In Brightside, Grimesthorpe, kc, there are streets which have scircely a single occupant. In other parts there ' are whole rows with the shutters up, and it was rare indeed to find a road where half 'the houses were inhabited. Nor was this all. I found that, for the sake of cheapness, three or four families had clubbed together, and huddled themselves into one dwelling, where they are living under conditions certainly not conducive to health or morality. The publicans and merchants have suffered severely during the last two years, and the weakest have, as usual, gone to the wall." These men have no money wherewith to reach the Australian Colonics, even assuming there was a demand for their services, and there certainly is none here. Yorkshire and Lancashire will have a heavy poor rate this winter. —New York Times.