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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1316, 25 June 1880, Page 2

A terrible shock has been given to the feelings pf th 4 members of the Legislative Council. It se.eips that the Secretary of tho Wellington: Pricing" iplfib had glaged Qge of those infernal betting machines— tptaljeators in one of the room*, to which members retire when w.earied with the discourses of of other honorable members. Need we say that this step was not taken in order to provide amuseifient for our legislators nor to induce them, to indulge in speculation upon any of tliepeculi are vents that trauspireiu Parliament ? No, it was done to afford innocent members an opportunity ;of forming a fair ppinion of the capabilities of the machine before.daeiaing wjnetherpr not its use should legalised. The presgnpg .of the gambling machine .within the sacred precincts of the Parliamentary building caused t}ie Hon, Mp, •Wilson to call attention to matter on a point ; 0 f order, and Sir F. D. Bell protested against the building "being used foi-ofchßr than Parr liamentary purposes. But these outbursts of indignation were silenced by .the Speaker saying that. he. and, the Speakpr o"£ the House had giyeji: the secretary permission.

Westgarth's gfcgpk Exchange Circular of;the 7th May,' with -which wp Jiave been favored, contains the following, reference tp the Oamaru Harbor Board loan:—This second loan of the Oamaru Harbor Board was offered here by public tender on 23rd ultimo through the Union Bank of Australia. It forms part of an authorised amount of LIOO,OOO, of which LI 1,000 lias been taken over by the Jfew Zealand Government. ,-The debentures SFe secured on all the land; properties, etc., of the Harbor Board; subject; however,. to a previous first charge loan of LIQO.OQO issued in 1577. The principal is repayable 1010,and the interest half-yearly, Ist May and Ist November. The declared minimum was 96, including the Ist May coupon, or 93 net, ex interest. : At the opening of the tenders £76,000 was found to have been applied for, at prjces ranging between the. minimum and LlOl os.' The unsold balance of L 1.3,000 was almost immediately afterwards taken up at the ipinimum pri.ee 96. TJip security fop this issue appears ample, but there is n,o doubt thejp.au W3 upder gpeat disadvantage from its form as a. second mortgage. It was not necessary to the specess of the first loan to have given such a stringent p/eferehtjal first claim and by breaking the uniformity, of the stock its marketability has been seriously interfered/with. The loan, however, in spite of the small'amount and' secondary security, was-successfully negotiated,. thanks to the inflriepgg and high standing connection of the agents .employed- Speaking generally of these small loans,' it lias "now got to be officially recogpjsed' that ifyere.-gap b§ no. pia,rkefcfpr guch'smajl qjuarititigs"of stock #?• haverecently been js.ezjt over hire from Zealand, Sometimes there is npt > transaction for months, and 'the" "Condon Sfejcfc iSj.-. change appear to have, at last, established a precedent with regard to them. The Commit'ee have refused a quotation in their official list to the Bluff Harbor Board for the loan of £50,000 on account of . the ' smallness of tjia Jn the case of an. additional issue of L 50,000 inepely increasing a loan of Vl larger amount, the giptation wp»J4' Jjave been "allowed, but' apparently it" has.hgw beep (iepi4ed that none pf these small first issues yijl e.y§F, ftgW admitted to a! quotation.

We live in an age of what our Awpripan cousins would call "push and go." We> are progressing, rapidly, but in no direction, is this more noticeablc.than in the journalistic world. . .Now-for three, cases in point.// On Friday the New Zealand Times by sore jpeaps objfcaiiie/i possps=jon of a copy of the Civil Service Commissi,pner ? s rpp.orfc, under the express stipulation tl)at it : ncjt t.p be published until it h»d bepn lajd on" the table of the Souse. Time went by rapidly and the bpnr-foE. the rising of the HO.lxse.WAS near at Hand and the hour for, publishing the Times fast approaching, but still the, report svas ppt laid upon the ..table.' The' Whole staff of ogee had : 'teen-briskly engaged getting thje ®epbr£ inso type,- and without.it the Tijjjes coffld not tie Within a minute of. the tinje for ing the/Editor rushed to the JPrenjier apd implored him to lay the report oh the tfthlp and so enable tjje Times to be published. With commendable promptitude but bad pastfi tjie Hon. John Hall-interrupted Dr. Wallis, the.task fcbe, scUt,oj: jmppsed upon him. 'TKere was nnmeitionabW wn)B '-'go" in the fjjjitor fif'tjxe Times, but'he Has ljeen eclipsed by the Ecjitpr, pf the' Wellington Chroti-cle, who,' believing that , JtfaeandreiV was tjo t speak on Wednesday fripepifi'op/ yrifdie ,apd' 'published an article giving a glowing' account of that gentleman's imaginary speech, stating that although it was not "brilliant the speech " bristled with hard facts and figures most damaging to*the Government,'£tnd so forth." Of course this expostj created a considerable amount of amusement" for the Government party,, .was, sprely chaffed over the -matter. But Syill laughters say when our instance tfye tlprfl of jouraalfstio: ,"go " ' becowies knpwp in Wellington. In this ease the honorable Member for Port Chalmers is again favorpfl with a " prognosticatory criticism" of hjs app.ech, but in this case it is not the work of a friend, Jp yesterday's Ashburton Mail there appears '» "? wo

correprendent 1 " 1 -at that Mr/ resumed the debate - on the no-coiifidence on Wednesday, and stating that ' "-his speech was by_nd means brilliant." Of' couxfee, as ; Mi« Macandrewdid hot "speakupon the'iio-confideiice motion, the Mail- has eq.ual if not-' greater claims to those of the Chronicle to notoriety for its "go "in obtaining from Wellington and publishing a telegram a day or two in advance journals. Mails Jor- Australian Colonies,.via Sydney, per Wakatipu,- close at. 11a.m.--to-morro\v -at.Wen.ngton.„,^leg^ams,plifee,accepted, at the Oamaru Office accordingly. At the inquest on : thevbody> of "James-Ellis yesterday; the-evidence of two-of -deceased's - fellow-servants went to show that up to the last time he was seen by them he was in his usual state of health and spirits. There was rib'evidence of his having been the worse for liquor on the evening previous to his death, andihe apparently retired to rest at the usual time, a light having been seen in his room after ten o'clock at night. Nothing more was' seen of hitn until the next morning, when the dpor of his ropm sieeii open, and! he was found dead, lying on the floor .with signs around him of having been very sick, Poison for the purpose of destroying rats, and which hail been qonstantly fqr that purpose, was in the possession of a fel-low-servant, but in the absence of the evidence of the doctor who made the post rriorten) pollination, which will' not be made public untij. to induce man bffigjng die 4 from that' cause, as it_ is> quite tfiat the interval since he was last "seep, haye become intoxicated,...and,, through falling. Qn' liis position:, he ~was first'seen.'; li wia most uitfortilnate that the'witnesW'J.-intfei'n "did Sot sleep over the stable (where, deceased's-rooiti was) en Wedpe<?day night, as, it appears, he occasionally 1 Jiia/j "The' pbis-qn{stryahijine) was left by this witness, on Wednesday night, in the pocket of his coat, which hung on the post of his Pwn bed,-where the packet was found on Thursday morning. This was the m6st important 'add.uced at .the inquest, and until Monday nothing further relating tp the gauge of death can be known. At the meeting of the Council last evening Councillor Headland drew attention to the necessity for establishing" a® rapid jsystem of signalling along the line of waterworks, so that warning ;Cpuld be given in the eyent pf. a foregl? occurring. ■A Special Servipp iqv YWB ifill held in St. Paul's Ohuroh on Sunday morning, when the attendance of parents and children is particularly requested. A scratch- match will : be : play«d 'by the j O3rnap.ll Football Club to-morrow afternoon on the 't)Sl iSrieket QvoiindP'' : meripe at '2,30, Wff ; ; to bd punctual; ; : - Yesterday's" South * Canterbury " Times : says "The. lips and downs of.life in New i Zealand are remarkable'. 1 ' About 'two years ago Mr. George Jones, proprietor of the " CJaniaru MaiL" appeared'at the.-,bar -of the ! House of Representatives'.to show cause .why - should not be imprisoned for denpjincing the land speculations of the Hofl. Mr. ! Whitaker. Last evening the same Mr. ■ George Jones re-appeared jn, the same Ho >se ■ of Representatives' escorted' by' Sir George ! Grey and Mr. Shrimski. Mr. Jones took i his sealfc'as -member foi'.Waitaki,'while, the ■ Hon. Mr. Whitaker although AttorneyGeneral is member for no.-where. Such is political life, dear boy!"