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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 5 October 1880, Page 2

:TJie new sc le of charge for the haulage of goods on the railways is published in the Gazette. For. agriculturp.l produce the. charges per ton are—First 'mile, 3s, then 2d pr mile up to 50 miles, the amoynt for which is 12s }od, For :51 miles the charge is 13s sd, showing a rise of 7d on the 51st'mile, bat the reason for making this sudden jump does not appear to lis. From the 51st mile a charge of Id per mile is made up to 100 miles, when another jump of 7d is made on the 101 st mile. From this point on to the end of the chapter, or, rather, the end of the railway line, there is a charge of p. penny for each additional mile. The charges on the Qamaru breakwater line will be as follow j To or from station yard or goods shed: General merchandise, per ton, 2s ; coal and Other minerals, including loading, unloading being done by consignees, per ton, Is ; grain, flour, and other produce, per ton, Is 6d ; Wool, screwrpressed, per bale, 9d J timber, per 110 superficial feet, including loading, uuloading being done done by consignees, 3Ad ; rails and posts, per truck, 6s Gd ; live stock, per truok, ss; returned empties, each, 6d. To or from Harbor Board siding?: General merchandise, per ton, Is 6d; coal and other minerals, including loading, unloading being done by consignees, per ton, Is ; grain, flour, and other produ.e ? pgr ton,. Is; wool, sgrcwrpresged, per h.alp,, (3d; timber, per 100 superficial feet, including, loading, 'unloading being done by consignees, 3id ; rails and posts, per truck, 6s Gd; live stock, per truck, ss; returned empties, each, Gd. Captain Edwin telegraphs as follows Bad weather is approaching between northwest and South-west. The glass will further fall. The i indications are bad. Another Clydesdale entire is leaving the district,. Mr. M'Auly having sold Renfrew Jock, a prize-taker at many Oamarit shows, to a company of farmers at Geraldine. The price has not transpired, but we may be sure that the. sum was a good round one. -At the quarterly meeting of • the Loyal Ofljnaru Lodge, Manchester Unity, there wag a largo attendance of members and visiting brethren. The opening ceremonies were gone through, Noble Grand Gledhill presiding. During the course of the evening a new member was initiated, and Past Grand Sineale was presented with a beautifrained certificate, Past Grand Evans making the presentation, and Bro. Smeale replying in a neat speech. The advis? ; blene«s of having a Friendly Societies' picnio was discussed, and a C'oriunittee was appointed to confer with the sister lodges, in order to forward the matter. After and agreeable evening being spent, the Lodge was closed in the bonds of Amicitia, Amor, et Veritas.

The Secretary of the North Otago Agricultural anjJ Pastoral Society desires through us to advise those wljq purpose exhibiting fjq.lt butter, at the approaching Show that the last day for receiving lodgment of their exhibits with the t ecretary is Thursday, 21st inst. He also states that it is desirable that as mauy regular entries may be made as possible from this time forward, with the view of lessening the labor of the last day or two before the 4th of November, the date of final clqsjpg; A Gazette just to hand contains a notification that a number of sections in blocks 9, 10. 11, 12, and 14, Maorowhenua District, are open for sale on deferred payments. The upset price in each case is LI 10s per acre. Yesterday's welcome showers did not, we are informed,, penetrate far towards the interior. The : residents in and around Ngapara, for ipstancoj "?/erp qot favored with the refreshing an(J xnuf?h-neesle4 downpour. The crops are yet healthy looking, but continued dryness would undoubtedly shortly have an injurious effect upon them.

, Some little commotion was occasioned on the railway platform to-day by the spectacle of a large number of Maoris seated in carriages at'taohecl to t}»o express train going ' North. Tjiese are -frpin JJunedjn, au4 fopn a portion of the voluntary ploughmen arrested in Taranaki for ploughing wp private land. Those ladies and gentlemen who have consented to take part in the - concert in aid of the Fire Brigade are notified that Mr.; Finch, the accompanist will be in attendance at the Volunteer Hall to-morrow evening for the pnrpbse of rehearsing the songs. We understand that Professor Procter, the gipipent astronomer, contemplates visiting Oauiam, but trju precise "flot kqowft.: The lectures delivered by this gentleman in: the other colonies have been highly patronised. At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, one individual wlio"made his debut was' charged with having been drunk and disorderly, and was fined ss. Walter Hodgson was charged with paying been guilty of illtreating a horse, by kicking it and beating it with an iron bucket, His WQrship'iiifiicted a fine of 10s, Frederick Fejton, charged with furious riding in Thames-street on the 26th ult., was fined 40s. , r The usual monthly meeting of the Kakanui Road Board will be held at the office at two o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Jn reference to a paragraph from an English paper editing that the Hon. M. Holmes had purchased some h'gh-clasa sheep for New Zealand, it is desireable to supplement the information by stating that the sheep re. ferred to are of the Cheviot breed. We believe it is found that this breed is better for breeding cross-breds than either the Line*}!?) or Leicester. The sheep referred to are for the Gastlo Rock station in Southland. ' The Committee entrusted with the capryipg; QUt of the concert in aid of the Fire Brigade ipefc last evening, and finally adopted the. programme, jwfri cjti ip 911J advertising columns. It was announced that ppe tickets jup gmßg'O&rimai&biy'Weily i'-A.u I g f

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Mathew Power, in whose possession an illicit still and a quantity of liquor was discovered by "Inspector Thompson anrl 'two constables on Sunday /faorning/iifc x Yalley,, wP,s Oamaru to-day: by express train from Palm'erston. . He will' ;be brought ;up before the Magistrate on Friday, probably, at Palmerston:" '•; > .

The usual monthly meeting of the Committee of the North Otago Benevolent Society was .heldLlaat, evening at thp Secretary's office. Tliere were,. p : rpseiit-T:Messrs7 Milligah (President), Allen/ Filjbonfeiv Greenfield,- --Mollison; :-Stevenson/."and: Hardy (Secretary): -*i ;The : minutes < of : the previous meeting were read and confirmed, and the outward correspondence read and approved. The Barrackmaster reported that on' the 30th September there were six children in the institution; that twelve domestic servants had been admitted to the Home, the whole of whom, with one exception Lad obtained situations; that the •Hcjrrxe had, in accordance with instructions, been closed on the 30th September; and that the Society's cottages had been inspected and found in a fair state of repair, with the exception of porches which were blown down during a repent gale, He also acknowledged the receipt of a gift of clothing for the use of: the institution from Mr. H, Richmond. The master was requested to replace the porches to the cottages, and it was resolved thfit lime and use of brush be supplied to the tenants for the purposo of white-washing the interior of cottages, provided Mr. Hesketh see that the tenants white-wash the same. The collector's report was read and received, The • Visiting Committee's" rejxjrt read arid adopted with SoiflW' amendments. Tenderg 'wore opened an<j the following aocep.tpd Cleaning and deepening closet, on condition 1 that it be deepened to the quicksand, presuming a 'depth of ! T4ft., Mr. Bailoy, the work to be done under the supervision of .Mr, Hesketh- ; "milk, Mr. Falls; coal, Mr. John Orr; meat, Mr. M'Arthur ; groceries and bread, Messrs. Spence and Bee. No tenders were accepted for the supply of. potatoes athex vegetables. te( thp amount of L5,4-were passed fc*r payment and the meeting terminated,. ; '-A notice or motion of im-, portent qhawte.r (says. a Christchurch - exchange) was given by Mr. John Anderson, jun., at the meeting of the, Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral' Association on Friday. It was-to, the effect . .that the communicate witl* I".inured societies in the Colony, in prder.- to- collect statistics::and' samples of- the agricultural prodiibtions of New Zealand,; to, be exhibited at the next Royal Agricultural Siopiety'B. show in England, . that the, government, bp asked to aid' in: the- ebst,of. collection." This is indeed ; aii'important matter, and the N.O.A. and P. " Society can well afford to co-operate with the Canturbury Association regarding it. We have nothing to losp and a great deal to gain by t" v l;\ng such a step as that suggested tft popularise the products pf ttys district in the market in which they arc sqld, . This! is ; a 3hort and unique sermon delivered by a Quakeress : —"Dear friends, there are three things which I very much' wonder at. The first is that children should be so foolish as to throw stones, clubs, bricks, and sticks up into fruit trees to knock down fruit,; if they would lpt it alono it would : fall itself. The second is that men should be so foolish as to go and kill each other; if let alone they would die themselves. And the third and last thing that I wonder at is that young men should be so foolish as to go after young women; if they would' stay at home, the young women W"°ul4 PfHTRe ftfter them." A more astounding difference between professional men, upon an apparently simple matter, could not be than that displayed during a recent lawsuit at Sydney. The case (says a contemporary) was what is called "protracted," and it had a few curious points about it. Imprimis, it was a dispute between two insurance companies, the New Zealand So.utl} British of itself an edifying spectacle. The solicitors' and barristers engaged were nine in number, and it was a dispute about a fire. The action was on a .policy of insurance issued by the South British Company on the. fine new premises of the New Zealand Company, and the amount claimed was L 2,700, The facts reposed in a nutshell, as the saying goes. Last September, sopp,' iho new building wag }n pcqupatifln, a miserable little greengrocer's shop dppr fortunately for.lqveps of stjregt down. The New Zealand Company alleged that certain cracks in the" wall under which the fruit shanty nestled, were due to the firedamages as above. The South British replied to the action by paying a frugal L 69 into Court. That was their'estimate, s Tvyft professional ir>en tfte fire had injured the building.tgjhe extent .of another gave from LISQQ tQ L3OQQ, ;anpthev stood by LISOQ, another was ready to sink or swim by L2QOOj the Colonia.l Architect said , Llls was enough, and Mr. Cow.lishaw put the correct figures at L 180 ,: -The jury had thus an ample scale, varying from LI 15 to L3OOO, and they assessed the damages fit tlae lowest amount. The following is' the substanoe of 'an advertisement which appeared iii the London Times;—"To philosophers and pists of substantial means with no immediate kin.—A young gentleman, just.nineteen, who feels he has very good natural abilities for a scholar, philosopher, and statesman, wishes to become acquainted witli some one of the above who ! wonld adopt .him, to give him every advantage to cultivate himself' in a superior manner, and would ] place him (aftep dne kpwledge and experi. onocs of his oharaoter and ability) in substantially independent circumstances that he? may employ himself in promoting the well-, being of his fellow-countrymen. Applicant; is thoughtful, conscientious, energetic, per-, severing, methodical, modest, and yery temperate.—Address, to arrange for interview, i H 792, .Address and .< Inquiry Times, E,a,'' ' "