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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1148, 19 December 1879, Page 2

A special train convoying a nnrntar of mcv)btr3 of Parliament to their homes arrived iu Oamaru shortly after 13 o'clock last night. Mr. Hislop was amongst the number, and it is expected that Mr. SUrimski will reach Oamaru to-morrow.

The following interesting items brought by the mail h-vc been telegraphed to tis by our own correspondent at Auckland : —A man named James Smith has been heavily fined at Blackburn for represent:ng himself a3 an emigration .-.gent for New Zealand, and taking money from intending € migrants.—Mias Alice May has achieved a success in one of the minor parts in Lccocq's opera bonEFe " La Petite Madamoiscllc" at the AHiambnv Theatre.—A public meeting has been held at Nottingham, -Mr. Kelly presiding, to promote the candidature of the Tichborne claimant for a scat in Parliament. Captain Jack Barry, of New Zealand, was one of the speakers, and behaved in an extraordinarily eccentric manner. Tic said he had published the history of his life, and had conducted his own case in an action brought by Levy Sanson, and had frequently elicited rottrs of laughter by his severe crosa-examina tion.of the plaintitf.

; A man named John Carter was arrested tost evening by Detective Livingstone on a charge of stealing a watch from one Edwant Moore, at "the Forbury Racecourse, fhinediii, on % r about thu 2nd inst. Accused was brought up at the Resident Magistrate s | Court thU morning and remanded till MonThere will l** no practice of the members of No. 1 Company's kaml to-night. The December competition of the North Otaco Rifle Association will take place on Monday nest. The ranges are 200, 500, nnd 800 yards, with five shots at each. Entries nvnst be made with the Secretary (Mr. R. L. Rale) before eight o'clock to-morrow evening. Seven members of the North Rifle Association proceeded to Dnncdin by the early train this morning, for the purpose of tin"nil in the annual match agaiust the Otago Association, three members being already in Dtmedin taking part in the rille meeting now going on. The names of the marksmen from this district are—Captains Morton and M'Corkindale, Lieut. Headland, Sergeant Hardy, Volunteers Harding and Morris, and Mr. R L. Rule, of Oamarn ; and Captain DieftK Sergeant Rosf. and Volunteer Rhodes, of Dtepojio. Tim team t* a v.ry weak one. of on.r beat not being able to get : away. ' We have received a copy of a new work on jNew Zealand, which bears the title of I *• Handbook to New Zealand," and has been 1 ! pnbl-shed by direction of the Royal Commissioners for New Zealand in connection with the Sydney International Exhibition. Dr. Hector is the author, and the information, both as regards style and matter, must be i regarded as jnst what was requisite to bring ; the Colony prominently, and in its true colors, before the multitudes of the world now assembled in Sydney. In the preface, : However, the anthor acknowledges to having utilised some of the information contained in Sir Jnlins Vogel's Handbook and other statistical writings. He also testifies that he received able assistance from Mr. S. 11. Cox and Mr. Bryce Bain—the latter for the compilation of statistical diagrams comparing the progress of New Zealand \rith the other colonics of the Australasian group. The contains a general description of the Colony : its history, government, vegetable and animal products* geology, mining and geology, ch'matc, statfstica— censns results, IS7S, general statistics, pnblic institutions; itlso, as an appendix—forest trees, customs tariff, catalogue of diagrams, map of NewZealand, and meteorological map of New Zealand.

Wc have had the pleasure of inspecting a I minting, jnat completed l>y Mr. toiler, of j the tiitisEi of the last New Z-xilatul Waterloo [('«(► Coursing Meeting. Although the artist < has been forced to draw .somewhat upon his I intmasinatton »or the surroundings of the ! great 'event, the picture is a very admirable jone. and reproduces with very great ac- ! en racy the chief points* in the memorable t>o.'urretice- In the foreground there I the hare, as killed, just as it was mailing to i cover: Mr Boyd Thompson, as he appeared wjth his hat off, after picking up his dog Balmoral, the winner, with his standing beside him; and Mr. T. h.ett the trainer of Kathleen, the rumicr-up. The likenesses of the three men and the two dogs are wonderfully life-like, and there can be no mistaking who and what thej are intended for. Taken altogether, the picture is one that reflects the greatest credit upon Mr. Fouler, and we feel sure that many lovers of cenreing will gladly strive to obtain conies of so pleasing a memento of the first New Zealand Waterloo Cnn. This, we understand, they will be able to do, as a number of copies will shortly be made. The Auckland Herald and Star dl&ouncc the action of the Government in deciding to over certain district railways. W hen it is remembered that none of the railwoyo

I referred to arc; in the Auckland Provincial I Distriet, it if not difficult to find an explanation for their protest. These papers did not object to the vote of LlCo.ooo for roads and bridges r.mongst the clayey hills of Auckland, v. here a hundred acres would fail to provide sustenance for a single sheep, or to the stv .v the Hclensville ! railway through soriivwht.t -imilar country. It will*be seen that tli.-r opinions are not worth much