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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 912, 19 March 1879, Page 2

tW*i»ter»h!« tu.'or.vciiienec ami no .small to-..-< ttt th«r tt.v; of hu.-nie.-ts is occasioned to th - I'ahiKrsSoniana hv the evening trains (l >M.-.i tli eaefi other at Hushy Park station. T.» traveller* the inconvenience is still I'v.rater. as there is no refreshment room, ami i"i>t oven a station-master, at that |>oiiit. It tUrts ov»utrs that are oi.ligeil to -.iLitth a ha*tv sriaek at Hilkrove. or come thr whole way through to Oamara without having anything to eat. W,- have !'•>" rof|«trstc.l to call attention t.» th<> that the southern letters wen- not l>!aea»l in the private boxes tip to ■l» oVWk la.-t nisrht. Here is yet another omtotarnt a'-'at'nst the Postal Department. wht."h was I.i'Btrc.l with «* tins morning. A l-tter was p.-n'tcit in Waitlist-.- a>h!res-«'l to th - > : -.:<-rvt.ii-v «>f the Kaitangata Ueliel Fiiml t b.Mtiartt. ami »:nelosiHg a ehc;[iie t'.,i- LIS IS*. It hear:i the following post ~.-;4 . Waimate. 17th: Oamarn. 17th: 1 f.""ia-Un. t!Sth : ati.i Oamani. H>th. ComI i..- it on'the .->J*>ve wmthi he superfluous. ! Tie lion. K.''V.i«ph.-II ami Messrs. Council hn f'surtiptcr have kimliy hamle.l over their of fnttt att-t at the late I Show to the Hospital.

We v...itM mnind alt interested in the t'.>rnwtto:i of a Hunt Club that a meeting for the i.wrfHiac of taking the initiatory steps will i..- h«M tht.-f evening, at S o'clock, in the Ktnpsre Hotel. >ii'*.*r3. Wright. Stephenson & Co. have rtwived. t'«r di'jpo*'.*! bv public auction, one f»t th- ■ thWt shipments" o: horses that have over srwed the I»;;;'.fiiii market. They arriv.Cl by the St. Ktlda on Sunday last, in 'AtkUI c">ndit>>n. t'r»tn the farm of Mr. M»-;t»tw \Vatti.';ti«ni. and consist of carnage nil's b-.ii.vv horws, hacks, draughts, ana I Morton i.i well-known .is a iit--.-«*i>ia\ "breeder "f" horse slock: and the -■ • "t tltit t!i- -<• atiitn.il.-t are by the best sires. alt vouW. r.:-.d bred by S'imse!;, is an earnest that th -v .iro?what they are pressed to he. Vt i.tv«"rti.-<tme:«t in another column mtorins lii tHit th«*e horacs are to he sold l»y Messrs. Wridit Stephenson & Co. at the I'rovmcial i Yanbt on Saturday nest, 22ml March. We are requested by the Mayor to acknowledge receipt of the following additional amount* for the Kaitangata relief fund, viz.:—Employes at \\ atcrworks, L2 10*: employes of Win. Fraser and Co., L2 45 6*l.

This evening, Mr. J. Harding, of Hawke s Bay, will deliver an address on temperance »t the Tees-street Hall. Admission is free. About L 350 was paid over at the settling lip of the Palmerston race meeting. >e are requested to remind ratepayers that the Assessment Court, for the several wards of the Municipality of Oamaru was adjourned till 10 o'clock on Thursday next. We are glad that Mr. Monro has reopened his refreshment-room at Hillgrove. Long railway journeys are sufficiently unpleasant -with occasional refreshment, but they are much worse without. The Palmerston police are actively en"a«cd in prosecuting the clever fraternity who were so largely represented at the late races One of them, John Ford, was brought up charged with having an " under-and-o'cr tabic" on the course, contrary to the Ordinance re games of chance. He was convicted and fined 40s. The members of the Philharmonic Society will nier-t for rchersal this evening. As the concert will take, place shortly, members arc earnestly requested to attend. A social meeting of the members of the North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held in the Mechanics Institute on Saturday, the l*2th April, at •' i) in. The business will be important, inasmuch as it is to consider the desirableness of-disposing of the present show ground. Mails for Australian Colonies and Tasmania, per Ringaioonia, close at Blutf at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 20th. \t the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, before S. E. Shrimski, Esq., J.P., Henry I'liiminer was charged with having been .bunk and disorderly in Thames-street at an i-arlv hour this morning, and was fined 20s, with the alternative of 4S hours' imprisonment At 2 p.m.. before George Siunpter, ]■'*<, J I' , Luke M'Alister was charged with havii'i" wilfully attempted to burn a house, the property of Mary M'Alister, atNgapara, about 12 p.m. on the lSth inst. He was remanded till Tuesday next.

How strange it is (says the Western Mureurv) that the High Church clergy should" take upon themselves to protest a-ainst the desecration of Lent by the proposed marria-_'e of the Duke of Connaught in that season. " They don't appear to remember that both the Prince of Wales and the Princess Louise did likewise, "with, so tar as I know, no particular ill effects. If tii.- text "He who regardeth the day, ivardeth it unto the Lord, and lie who doth uo't reeanl the day unto the Lord, he doth not regard it, :: was in the law books, it would "surely be quoted as an absolute decision in favor of liberty, and yet those HiVh Church gentry state their own opinion aslliouirli it were to overrule that of all otherperaous who happen to think differently.