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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 10011, 17 July 1879, Page 2

A pressure of other and more important matter precludes the possibility of our publishing a report of yesterday's sitting of Parliament. It -will be satisfactory to our readers to know that they will loac nothing by its non-pttbtieation, for the business transacted was preliminary and unimportant. We arc glad to sec tii.it Mr. Shrtmski is not at owing the siaaa to grow under his tVwt. Oit the tirat day of the present session of Parliament, he gave notice that he would intrixhiee the Oamans Harbor Hoard Amendment Act. which would, it it became law, empower the Harbor Hoard to immjdiateiy raise the Ltoo.ooo they were authorised by Parliament t> tor harbor works, instead of ti mi ting them—m provided in the Act paaaed East year—to a borrowing power of Lot>,ooo within two years. We wottld remind tho.se workmen employed in the vicinity of I'sbridye, and who arc in the habit of purloining subjcribere' copies as they are dropped along the line by the ifuard, that they can secure copies of the M.ul honestly by paying a subscription of fe fid per .[iwrter. U'c would rather provide th» m with papers tree of cos . than that r hey should interfere with tfioac of our 9tth..t;rtt;ers». V. .ti\s compelled to hold over several communications.

At the Keaiflcnt Magistrate's Court today, before T. \V. Parker, Esq., 11. M., Thomas Wright, for allowing one horse to vttmlcr, was hncti 4a; Patrick Nihil, for the same offence, teas fined Ss. A number cf pjrjl cases occupied the rest of the day.

J* Those interested should bear in mind that the Hampden Annual Ploughing Match will take place to-morrow. Hails for the Australian Colonies close at 11 a.m. to-morrow, per Ringarooma at the Bluff. , f x A lady from the country bought a music stool from a Timarn dealer a few days ago. She took the stool home, and, being a " musicianer.'" she set to work to get a tune out of it. She screwed it up and down till she was red in tiie face, but the only sound she could iS':t was the creaking occasioned by the unluoricated portions grinding against each other. Here was a swindle. Nothing le.'s than the incarceration in gaol of the dealer [or a year would satisfy her, unless aiie could prevail upon him to return the inoiify she had paid. She had made the purchase with the idea that she could turn on a screw, and be treated to selections from the latest opera. She did the dealer the honor of waiting upon him, and insisting nnon his returning the money. "It is 110 better thnn a common chair," said she. The dispute waxed so wann that we arc compelled to draw a curtain before subsequent proceedings.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court, this :iU':n:oon. before W. 11. S. Roberts George Sumptcr, Ivsqs., Charles F'i.-tor, charged with assanltina James Itoiiertson, was remanded till Monday.