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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1244, 13 April 1880, Page 2

. A correspondent, writing from Ngapava, and signing himself " Disgusted," complains ; bitterly pf the manner in which the Government has treated that settlement as regards thecattleyartfs. HesaysNotwithstanding the preparation of plq.ns and profuse promises, the yards are apparently as far off being constructed as ever. To the unsuspecting and uninitiated it might appear strange that, whilst yards have been constructed at Corriedale, Ngapara has been left out in ilia cold in this respect. To me and the rest of the setfl.ers who do not go about with their eyes shut there is pothing strati go about i l -. Corriedale is the property of the for Public Works, aiid he had scarcely got into ppwgr when he took very good care that, whatever lie might be as a colonial administrator, lie would be tru.e to Corriedale. The yards on the Mipister's I estate are a picture; even paint has been laid on with a lavish' hand. We should be glad of yards without paint—anything that would do a>yay with the necessity of driving our sheep on t.9 the platform. What we settlers want to know is, whether the Corriedale yards have been constructed fay means of public or private money, I can scarcely believe that any Minister for Public Works would have the courage to erect such a convenience on his estate to the neglect of another and more important district ; but I have every reason to believe that there is something more than tljiij ip connection with these Corriedale yards. They are on private property—that of the

Minister for Public Works—and there is not a road tathem,ttat£can Be nqed .iby. settlers. We shall/ yet , the extraordinary spectacle :of railways to the doors of our; Ministers."

It is announced in another column that "a concert and readings" will be given in the Hampden Presbyterian Church on Tuesday evening, April 20, the funds arising out of which are to be devoted to supplementing the .Sunday School library of that to%vn. All who approve of intellectual public entertainments and the-encouragement of libraries as a supplemental - means of educating the young, will View with satisfaction the efforts being put forth on this occasion by a section of the residents of the Hampden district, and will countenance and support those efforts pecuniarily and otherwise to the best of their ability, On the occasion in creation the vocal music will be supplied by the Hampden choir, assisted by members of St. Paul's choir, Oamaru. We need say no more on this subject. The parents of the district are npt slow to recognise the responsibility tliat devolves upon tfiem as guardians of the intellectual, moral, and social faculties

of their youth, sijd the necessity for taking advantage of the few aijxilai'ies that" are within their reach for assisting them in their task.

We direct the of the members of the Committee pf the North Otagp Agricultural and Pastoral Association to the announcement in another column that the usual Monthly Meeting will be held on Thursday, 22nd inet., instead of the 15th, in consequence of the sale of- Fleming and Hedley being held on the latter date. Business is important and members are requested to attend. At the Resident Magistrate's Court today, before T. W. Parker, Esq., R.M., E iza Jane Mitchell, charged with being a neglected child, was ordered to be sent to the Industrial School for yertrs. Agpes Slater was charged with stealing three tumbler glasses of the value of 3s 3d, the property of Benjamin Perry, of the Swan Hotel. The evidence of B. Perry, senior, and G. Godfee went to show that at 5 p.m. yesterday the prisoner, in company with another woman and four men, visited the Swan Hotel, where they had a few drinks. When they were leaving, Godfee, who happened to be passing the door of the room in which they were, observed some glasses in the prisoner's hand, which she had partly in her pocket as if she wished to conceal them. He iftifnediatejy went to Mr, Perry and informed him pf the circumstance. The evidence of Constable King having been taken, his Worship sentenced the prisoner tfl 43 hours' imprisonment. A. J. S. Headland was fined 4s for permitting a horse tg wander at large.

The return billiard match between Mr. Weston, the Australian champion, and Mr. Roberts, lessee of the saloon, will be played at the Royal Hotel this evening, Mr. Weston conceding Mr. Roberts 500 points out of 1000.

The following very extraordinary sentences occurred in a sub-arfcicle in the Morning Herald of Saturday last:—"Life in Duncdin of |ate has been as dull as ditch-water. •True, there has been a terrible tpagedy; but the sensation caused by it has to some extent subsided, and the crime in all its bearings has been fully d'scussed." In other words: —Life in Dimedin of late has been as dull as ditch-water, the only thing that has tended to render it tolerable being the Cumberland-street outrage. But tljp investigation which disclosed so many delightfully exciting jpcidpnts wa3 far tpo short-lived, and its termination left us in a condition far more dismal than it found us. Is not the above merely an elaboration of the Herald's remarks ? If we had doubts up.on the subject tliey would be set at rest by a perusal of the context, which places horrible occurrence in the same category as the Easter Review, the labors of the Royal Commissioners, and an anticipated political address from Mr. Dick. The Herald should really be carpful not to make startling beginnings to its articles at t]je expense of common decency, and the' re-wounding of the harrowed feelings of the public. Unless the Herald is in possession of some useful and veracious information concerning the affair to which it has so flippantly referred, which it wishes to give to the public, it had better in future borrow its startling effects from a source Jess repuguant $q public feeling..

In a recent issue (says the Inyer.cargill News) the Oamaru Mail publishes a long account of the Chrisfcehiirch Review from its own correspondent. The wiiter, who has evidently made good use of his eyes, divides his letter under two headings—"The-Dark gicje" and " The Bright Side." A significant fact appapens st: the first- glance is that; the former occupies about pne-Jjalf more space than the latter.

There is a gentleman who has a station property not-far from the Western plains, and he is a conscientious man. • He goes to church and he prays regularly. He discovered, howeyef,- that the clergyman was npt a Conservative, and one day abandoned Ijis accustomed pew. " Why don't you go po .church now?" asked one of his friends, "Gp to church!" said he. "Why, sir, the fellow's a fraud. I hayp beep fpr t}i§ Jaj§j> ten years praying tp the Pmnipotent to 'pour out on all bishpps and curates the healthful measure of His Grage,' aijd I find the beast reads The Age."—Leader,

An exchange says:—We understand that • Mr, W. J. G-. Bluett, M.A., the editor of the New Zealand Shorthorn Herd Book, is oow preparing the sixth volume fijr publication, We would therefore pcponjiiignd all owners of puve-brod Shorthorns in this district to furnish him with the full pedigrees of their cattle, so that they may appear in the forthcoming volume. The registration fee for each animal is only lialf-a-crown, and the prige gf the book is one guinea. * Mfs. Eferdingerßiitten whites iii the Rel;-gio-Philosop])ical Journal a§ follow?: "With the most grateful and tender per membrance of kind and sympathising friends in Australia, I have else but little admiration of the country. It needs active, energetic labor, better government, more wholesome politics—a radical breaking up of rings, monopolies, rowdyism, and priestcraft. Perhaps I might not have been so successful had I not fearlessly levelled the thunderbolt of spiritual denuiicjatjon against all these great wrongs, and ha<£ they n&t gxiftecj in stupendous power to be protested agaiiist. There is still, and will be for ip<).ny a long year, an accumulation of the 6arae crying evils to occupy the work of the reformer, and all who can and will endure Inuch, in fiugh a crusade, will find an abundant field of operations Australia. I might apply all the foregoing remarks tp New in which country I passed my last eight months of missionary efforts, but the land itself is so eminently beautiful, the climat* so fine, the scenery so unparalleled in loveliness and grandeur, that the theories of our modern naturalists must all fail if New Zealand does not ultimately gtamp its re-

markable and unique characteristics on its inhabitants. ; : "At present it is too young to exhibit any other results than a deep andgrowing feeling of attachment to the country on the part of all who come to reside, there."