The Oamaru Mail. Monday, October 11, 1880.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 11 October 1880, Page 2

The Oamaru Mail. Monday, October 11, 1880.

It would be well for residents in Oamaru to bear in mind that the new Corporation Bye-laws come into force to-day. They have .already been publisher iu full in the Mail, and the public should make themselves thoroughly conversant with their provisions. This evening a public meeting in behalf of the Weskyan Home Mission Fund will be held in Wesley Church. The chair will be taken at half-past seven o'clock. It inav not be generally known that under the new Corporation Bye-laws, which come into force to-day. all peripatetic vendors of meat, vegetables, and milk, whether by hand or cart, are bound to take out licenses. It would therefore he well for those carrying on these businesses to make themselves acquainted with the bye-laws. The usual monthly meeting of theWaitaki | Road Board will be held in the offices, Tynestreet, to-morrow, at 11.30 a.m. The horses engaged in the Duntroon races are making their appearance at the scene of operations. There are now 14 horses at Duntroon in hard training, and others have proceeded np country. From this it would appear that there are likely to be large fields in the several races. We are informed thai Miss Mary King, a High School teacher, has successfully passed the requirements of the elementary certificate in vocal music, Mr. Brownlee being the examiner. The test exercises which fell to Miss King's lot were rather severe, more especially the musical memory test, it being Ho erg's song of "The Skylark," in three pnlse measure, abounding in quarters, halves, ones, and one-and-a-half divisions of time. Her rhythm exercises were the bugle call "Advance" and four measures from "Barrett's "Hark! sweet echo." The reading at sight exercise—an impromptu common metre hymn tune by the examiner—was remarkably well sung. Miss King is studying for her intermediate certificate, and we have reason to believe that she will make a good teacher of vocal music. Sir Julius Yogel has in preparation A volume on New Zealand, which will be published by Sampson, Low, and Co., the publishers of Captain Barry's work, " Up and Down." The Auckland Herald quotes from a Svdney paper a report of the Charity Organisation Society in that city, to the effect that an increase had taken place in the number of applicants for relief against the previous fortnight. The Herald thinks this is not very reassuring as to the prospects of those who recently left Wellington for Sydney. It is announced that on Friday, Oct. 22, an entertainment will be given in the Volunteer Hall in aid of the North School gymnasium and library fund. Although the programme is not yet compiled, we are in a position to assart that the items will be both varied and excellent. Acceptances for the several handicaps to be run at the Waitaki Jockey Club's meeting are due to-morrow evening, and, together with the general entries, must be sent to the Secretary, at Duntroon. The Yolnnteer Hall being engaged for the Fire Brigade Concert on Werlnesday evening, the Philharmonic Society will hold their practice on Thursday, 14th hist., at the usual hour. Mnils for San Francisco and the United Kingdom, per Australia, will clo3e at Auckland on Tuesday, the 12th inst. Telegrams will be accepted at the Oamaru office accordingly. The undermentioned members of the Excelsior Cricket Club liave been chosen to practice during this week for the forthcoming match with the Oamaru Cricket Club : Messrs. Blakely, Creagh, Cooke, Denton, Fenwick, Finch, Forbes, Hartley, A. E. Hardy, Ham, Hewat, J. S, Holmes, Little, Marshall, Maw, D. Moore, M'Donald, and Snow. In all probability the match will commece on the 16th inst. The final team will be chosen early in the week. The match between the first eleven and the next eighteen of the Excelsior Cricket Club was resnmed on Saturday last, the old cricket ground being the scene of operations. The eighteen finished their first innings for 44. They then followed on, and were all out in the second innings for 54, the eleven, who had made 140 in their first innings, thu3 winning by 1 innings and 42 runs.

The match of the Oamaru Cricket Club, the "World v. Colonials, did not eventuate on Saturday afternoon last, owing tp the non-appearance of some of the members of the latter team. In lieu thereof a match between side 3 chosen by Messrs. Sumpter and G. Millington was commenced, but, owing to want of time, it remains unfinished. Sumpters team won ti>e toss, and made a steady stand against their opponents. The play of Denton, Will, and J. Millington, was especially good, these gentlemen making respectively 42, 30, and 19. The team succeeded in putting together the decent score of 144. Millington's side then took up the batting, Wails and G. Millington going first to the wickets. The latter made 12, when he was mn out. Macdonald then joined Walls, and when the stumps were drawn CO run 3 had been made for the loss of 1 wicket, Walls scoring 42, not out. The Club showed a marked improvement in their j batting, which was much above the average. We Ic-arn from a telegram that another section of out railway was opened on Saturday—the Ainberk-y.-Waipara extension. There wa3 apparently no celebration on the occasion, not even a passenger in the first train. Is thiß not suggestive of another milt-stone about our railway system? The section rclarr&l to i 3 a portion of a line that is to skirt along tfce coast past Kaikoura to Blenheim. There will be potbing on one side bat the <*ea beach and the the other Bide it will be bounded by rugged sheep runs. This will be esentially a coastal railway. We thought that the Colony h.vl already seen the unsatisfactory fruits of entering into Competition with water carriage, Although there are no indications that the Government intends to carry this line farther at present, it ig time that the Colony* set its face again*t the construction of this and similar lines. Even | the Otigo Central would be a much more desirable work. • If any of our reader? .have any intention of purchasing lands on tho IVaimate Plains, tays the >Vairarapa Standard, they should remej/iber that the Taranaki Harbor Bo#rd haa power to rate the land they purchase at one shilling in the pound on its annual valuc. Tin* it muni fefl remembered is above all other raU-a they, witfi jn si(Terent dUtficU, may bo cllcs upon to ■. M*> Owning wftß once inyitcd to banquet £he Fishmongera* Company pt <i time of (pe*b public excitement. When h,O arrived, it was intimated that it would be desirable that he should give his send.

ments on the then public state of affairs, and that a very convenient time.to.-,do it would be in acknowledging the health of Her Majesty's Ministers. Mr. Canning listened to the communication gravely and ( politely, but made no answer whatever to it. When he rose to reply to the toast everybody was on the tin-tor: of expectation, waiting breathlessly for some great ministerial revelation. " Gentlemen," said Mr Canning, "we are invited here to meet the fishmongeis. Now, the, fishmongers' have dealings with ihe members of a very large community, from whose habits I think they might be learning .something— I mean the community of fishes. The fish is one of" the most uncommunicative I animals in creation ; it says nothing, and it | drinks a good deal. Let us then, upon the present occasion, as we are to some extent brought into their company, imitate their habit; let us not waste our time in talking, but drink a good deal," And so, as the reporters sa3 7 ,* he resumed his seat amidst roars of laughter. We are informed by several of our leading farmers—besides Messrs. Campbell Bros , whose venture has been previously alluded I to—that they have every reason to be pleased with the result of their shipment of oats to the London market, the value obtained being sufficient to bring them 2s 2d per bushel here, after paying all charges, including the heavy freight that was ruling when the grain was forwarded. This is especially gratifying when it is remembered that, at the time of shipment, quantities were being offered at Is pep mere Guardian. The Wairarapa Standard says : —lt is assertod in well-informed circles that the Hon; Johnßryce is at last convinced that the native people will have nothing to do with hiin beyond receiving Government money from his hands. That, feeling the Maori people hate him with the energy with which he hates them, he will, when circumstances permit, retire to that private life which he can enjoy, and perhaps adorn. An incident related at a recent meeting of the Wellington Benevolent ■'Society illustrates the vicissitudes of fortune, and the truth of the " 'twixt cup and lip" axiom. A wonjan, while ia England, learnt that her husband had died in tiio Colony, leaving her his property. Borrowing Ll5O she came out, only to find, through a clause in the will, she had disinherited herself by her action (the borrowing), and the property passed to other hands. Then she found that one of the trustees owed her some hundreds for iuterest, but his affairs being involved she could not get it, and was reduced to distress, partly relieved by the Benevolent Society. But the trustee 'dying his son is putting J affairs straight, having done which, he will hand the woman about L4OO, when the value I of the aid given by the Benevolent Society I will be recouped them.—New Zealand Times. It is asserted again (says the Wairarapa Standard), and to-day we are repeating a number of assertions, that anything but compliments passed between the Colonial Treasurer and Judge Mansford relative to his unhappy removal from Taranaki to Wei? lington hetore the Maori prisoners' trial. The Colonial Treasurer is something to our mind like " the green bay tree," one of the sweet singers of Israel embalmed in their songß—for soon we shall look "and behold he is not." The following portion of a letter which appeared in the Kllesmere Guardian will be of interest to settlers. Writing in reference to his shipment of oats to London, Mr. Campboll says :—"I find that the charges from Lyttelton, including-insurance, loss in weight, loss on bags, Ac., amounted to Is 5,-Jd per bushel, and the oats net 2s s.|d per bushel of 401bs at Lyttelton. The loss in weight was 4Jd per cent, which I think would probably have been less had I shipped in small instead of large sacks. I may mention that I had to pay a most exorbitant freight—no less thijn G3s per ton. Had I been able to obtain freight-* at the rates now current, the result would have been very much more favorable. Should any of your readers wish for further details, I shall be happy to show them my account sales I am, &c., J. 11. Caotbell, Bellfield, Sept. 2G, ISSO." It is asserted on what appears to be good authority that the late Governor only gave a reluctant ar.d tentative «isgef}t to the West Coast Settlement Bill; that he forwarded to the Secretary of State his reasons for his disapproval and why he gave his consent to its operation. When we know that the Imperial authorities were constantly badgering Sir Hercules Kobinson to know what explanation could be afforded of our illegal treatment of the natives, the assertion made by oup informant receives very strong confirmation indeed,—Wairarapa Standard, A correspondent suggests to the Invercargill News that, to provide the means of making up the sum the Colony devotes to educational purposes to the amount which daily experience shows cannot be reduced without great hardship to the already poorly paid teachers, a ta>; on photographs shguld be imposed, lie §ays It be perfectly simple and easily collected, with the additional recommendation of touching the pockets only of those who could afford it. Having one's self ' taken' is distipfitlj a luxury, the purchaser of which may very woil pay toil, ' It would probably bring in from LIO,OOO to L 15,000, or nearly half the sum the paternal Hall Government struck off the Education vote, to the distress and discomfiture of committees and teachers generally." The Government intend releasing the Maori prisoners in batches as soon as the fencers cease fencina. Those nqt subjected to the empty formality of a trial will doubtless see if .redress cannot be obtained against the Crown for false imprisonment. The commencement of the release of the prisoners, the Executive hope, will take place before the arrival of Sir Arthur Gordon. So conscientious is fear.—Wairarapa Standard, The Canterbury Education Boar 4 (says the Lyttelton Times) lias been notified that for the ensuing financial year the total sum at its disposal for buildings will be LOOOO. It was stated at the Board's meeting yesterday that there were at the present time 14 new schools required, and that there were as many more applications of secondary importance.. The state of the finances augurs badly for the provision of schools in the upcountry districts. An exchange says:—The reason why a •small portion of the Waimate Plains is forced on the market at the present time is that the Government are anxious to show the natives that thoy have the power to sell, which interpreted means that the Tai*anaki Harbor Board i 3 anxious to assert its equivocal right before the 25 per cent, is taken away. I An Ohio paper tells a story of a well-known character, who frequently figured on juries in one of the principal cities of that state. When on a jury, as soon as they had retiped to their room to deliberate, he would button up his coat and "turn in" on a bench, exclaiming, •'Gentlemen, I'm for bringing in a verdict for the plaintiff (or defendant, pa he had settled iu his mind), and all creation can't move me. Tiierefore as soon as you aro all agreed with me, wake me up, and all go in."