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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1238, 6 April 1880, Page 2

A resident on one of the hilly portions of Oamaru wishes to know whether he and others similarly elevated will be favored with the blessings of the new water supply. We have previously been asked the same question by others who grow anxious when, for a season, the aggregated vapoury particles fly over our heads without bestowing upon us anything more than gloomy auguries. We do not know what are the intentions of the Council regarding this matter, and perhaps the Council is no better off in this respect than we are. But we have little doubt that the Corporation will carry the water into every corner of the town where it will pay and where it is practicable to do so, whether plain or hill, We know of but few parts of the town to which the water could not be conveyed, and to which it would not pay to convey it. Even the residents along the North road are soliciting the Council to supply them with water, and, seeing that the Council would gain by acceding to their request, the boon will probably be granted.

"We have received information from Palmerston that an accident occurred at Tumai, six miles south of Palmerston, to the train from Dunedin. When at a steep grade where the railway rHns along a high embankment, seven or eight trucks laden with merchandise ran off the line and were precipitated down the embankment into a garden. Ihe merchandise was scattered broadcast, and the trucks were all more or less damaged. This is all the information we" have been able to obtain of the occurrence, no report having been made to the manager at Oamaru, the scene of the accident being outside the Oamaru-Timaru section.

A telegram has, at the request of the unemployed who have been engaged on the Livingstone line, been forwarded to the Government by Mr. Hislop", MVH,R., asking the Government whether the construction of the line is to be resumed or not. The followingjjis from Captain Edwin: — Watch barometer, bad weather is approaching from any direction between north-east and west. The glass will further fall. There will be a short north-east sea; rain is likely to fall soon.

The Lynch- Family of. Bellringcrs and English Combination Troupe appeared at the Athencenm, Herbert, last evening, to a crowded and enthusiastic audience. The troupe promised to return to Otepopo before leaving the colony. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Florence, assisted by Mr. E. Godfrey, baritone and pianist, are announced to give their popular entertainment at Herbert on Thursday, Hampden on Friday, Palmerston on. Monday, and "Waikouaiti on Tuesday next, "VY§ ow promise a good evening's amusement to those who patronise Mr., and Mrs. Florence, An adjourned meeting of the Waiareka Road Board wall be held in the offices, Tynestreet, at 10.45 to-morrow forenoon. Also, the ordinary monthly meeting of the Kakanui Board will be held to-morrow at 2 p.m.

It is scarcely; necessary toremind our readers that the Lynch Family of Bellringers will appear at the Volunteer Hall this evening. Those who had the pleasure of listening to the tintinnabulations of this <sjevep family some years ago do not require to be told that the entertainment promised is an excellent oue, and when we say that the company has been strengthened by the addition of a number of clever vocalists, lovers of amusement will agree with us that those who attend the Volunteer Hall this evening will receive full yalue for their money.

A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writing from the Dalrymple Farm, furnishes the following:—Just think, of a sea of wheat containing 20 square miles (13,000 acres) —rich, ripe, golden ; the winds rippling oyer it. As far as the eye can see, there is the same golden sunset here. Far away on the horizon you behold an army sweeping along in grand procession. Riding on to meet it, you see a major-general on horseback, the superintendant on horseback, the repairers. No swords flash in the sunlight, but their weapons are monkey wrenches and hammers. No brass band, no drum beat or shrill note of the fife ; but the army moves on—a solid phalanx of 24 selfbinding reapers—to the music of its own machinery. At one sweep, in a twinkling a swarth of 192 feet have been cut and bound, the reaper to3sing the bundles almost disdainfully into the air, each binder doing the work of six men. In all, there are 115 selfbindjng reapers at work. During the harvest about 400 men are employed, and during threshing COO, their wa fte# beij>g two dollars a day with board.