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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1014, 21 July 1879, Page 2

Tiu- newly formed Oiimaru Dramatic Club have rixed upon pieces for the lir.sfc performance. These will be put in active rehertrsii, and the Club will probably appear in about six wka.

The tmnsu.il sight in tlii.s district of a Sfooml heavy snow fall was on Saturday evening, when the whole town was ,I'zaiti clothed in a mantle of white.

Mr. Ci.'.trlt's Call is has wired to Mr. Booth, Secretary of 11,-. Oninaru Stone Compmy, -tattiis that the ** elaborate c-u ving on view in St. George's Hall, Wellington (meaning the bnve of birds, kc.. carved by Mr. Godfrey) is niiieh admired.

A rehearsal of the band of the Philharmonic Society will be held to-morrow evening at Mr. Marie's room.-). All members are requested to attend.

Make, who has been engaged as diver in connection with tiie Timaru Breakwater, ; iiid wh» formerly acted in the same capacity here. has n:et with a severe accident. He was engaged below in adjusting the blocks as they were being lowered by the crime, when one of the blocks swung, and so badly entitled him that his life is considered to be ix: jeopardy. Tiie following correspondence appeared in to-day's Timaru Ilerald :—'• Sir,- —I send an extract from a letter, just received from Messrs. Littlewood and Heapo, flannel manufacturers, of Rochdale, England, who sometime.? purchase my wool : ' The wool-growers in the colonies have made a great mistake in growing so much strong crossbred wool. It has been a drug for a long time. We expect they will now go to the other extreme. Kriglish, South American (West Coast), and alt low quality wools arr* as low, and in some cases lower than they were in l ib'!) and IS7O, whilst fine colonial wool is at least 25 per cent dearer. This is said to be caused by the immense increase of crossbred wools sent from the colonies.'—l am, &c., C. G. Tf.ipp, Orari Gorge, July IS, 1570." An exchange says : —Messrs. Little Brcs., of Allandale, Waikari, have just received a splendid Iftt of pure-bred sheep for their farm, from the flock of the late Dr. Webster. They consist of 24 Lincoln rams, bred by the deceased gentleman, at Balruddery, Oamaru; also, 70 ewes of the aauie breed. Part of this lot were bred by the Hon. Mathew Holmes, by one of his celebrated prize rams ; while the balance of the ewes are by the jn in Old Champion, imported by the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, a siiecj: that h::s never been excelled in the C'olouisp, Jt is the intention of Messrs. Little Bros, to breed fron; their new purchases fur sale in the northern u;.'trict, and their e'brts by introducing such aiicep into it u 'll no doubt be well repaid.

The following extracts from a letter sent to a resident of Invercargill are published in tiie Invercargiil News : —"By perusing carefully the weekly and other papers this t : me you will ascertain the trial we llobartonians have parsed through during the past week. I need say no more than that feelings of horror, disgust, unea=. ; nc:S, and bitter animosity pervade the mindb cf all Protestants i here. The Mercnry has sold about ten | thousand extra copies during the week. Nor does the capital alone heave and throb—the whoJe island is coxr.'ulseJ, and peace lias ended. The llonian Catholics have lost a deal, are being dischiiit/ed from employment, and stripped of custom in all directions. The whole place is up in arms. The Mutiny Act is still in force in the city, and everything is m $ very unsettled condition indeed."