The Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1876. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 45, 13 June 1876, Page 2

The Evening Mail. TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1876. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We ate please*! to notice that onr «ig{aatwTi thrown out on Saturday regarding be- d«»w*S»tK*y of a crossing from the NaUmal 'Rank to the Poet Omee has been acted ipoov To-day a very capital Mae metal ootpath has been laid. amjjg|^e] T gtire the >*Mfc will fee grateful Municipal wtlwwitfe* for the prompt actum they have j>ak«a alter reading oar suggestion. I "Ratepayer* *" aad "Mask a " letters will Ippear i» to-morrows i*s.uiv The extraordi-

f nary pressure ©0 crar advertising space has crowded them oat to-day.

.%te9,tntlie ** Austra!asian,"ssys :—"The aiKtfeocer's advertised reaso'na for selling are ordinarily simple enough- The furniture is usually the furniture of a gentleman about to visit; Earopr, or giving up house-keeping. No one ever announces that he is selling his property becausw he «.wl» the money. That is a «;onttngt>ney ton absurd to contemplate. In tfii> week s papers, however, there is an example olf real eaudour. Lite advertiser takes thu world fully into hist couhdeuce. He throws open the closet, and introduces you to —his mother-in-law. This ia how he prefates hi.* desire to sell his brewery at malthouse :-—'The owner being about to! vc the Colony on amount of the estrangemen in his home that has been caused hy the conb nts of a tetter addressed to his wife and fade into fib hands. as also to get rid of a uiotl r-in-law and her family." - *

A correspondent at (*hristchai.:i( ask* us ("Tintant Herald '1 to settle a d'spntew '■ -h he has with a friend, as to whether Til ti does more trade in a general way with Ch ttdmreh or with Ihuwditi. We should . .y that there eari l>e ditlieulty in dt-utding 'n favour of fhtnedin. We do not know of ai y

•" fine " of trade in wfiii-h C'hristchureh eon - petes sneeessfttlty with Dttnedin iu the Timarj marferf. : hut there are several—for instanc drapery, fundture-. and stationery—in whi Diijiedin Ivas things almost all it* own wa It is onty of fate years, we apprehend, th Chratehttrirh itself has l>een anything inoi than a 'eustomor to Dtitiedin i and, althotig we understand that the traders there hav« tnade a pttsh for independence recenth", their efforts have not made any appreciable differ-

e.nce here. For ail the purposes of commerce Tinware is 1 a port of Qtago, and is likely to remain so until it gets its breakwater, and opens eommttr.ttation direct with the Home market. The; whole of what was the rolling stock of the ottf lUuff railway at the time when the line waii constructed on the broad gauge principle. has now been shipped to Sydney. : The '■ Siouchlaiid Tinier " states that, with the ttswal blundering, or something «or.ic, which characterises the Otago Provincial ♦ {ovemment. there-;has l*een no stipulation as to the price to he paid tor the material on its arrival m Sydney-; ami that'the contract for .reiislifc of tnia railway plant was drawn tip in the moat stovvnly manner, and as a matter of fact, the- cost of shipping i£ away will ~W> very inneb more than was contemplated. '■ A strange mistake"fsays the "Star"-Julias' , mada byHhe- leading* Tasmanian paper. 1 Instead of Lord f.yttelton, a* the telegraph ; announced. th& '* Mereurv " assumed that it sm the 'Viceroy : of India who had coin- : tuitted suicide, and devoted a"leading-article to th» subject, suggesting as one probable ; cause of the ra h act that the deceased noble- ; man inherited the highly sensitive constitution of his father, the fate Lord Lytton, formerly known as tiie ftotvlfet, Sir Edward frtilwer Lytton '. \ The " ilasterton Xewa Letter tells us that Manawatu is nofe-'blcifccd.with good railway cunvmtrnicattun principal to-wiwhtp*. - The dis- ' tance is twettty»f»«r i.tticts t and this is fftiictime* actonj^4|^i^jl4n"tltre» , -and-R-iißK'-hrtttr!*. j The >fay«>f.dl/i»rc"s*fe»l.t.t}i ""**' " ,:it I lie ha* haenvtnfortWff -bv-.the ({overnnicut ; that' they treat \ the harbotrrs■ of <*reymowth aiuTWestportin j a manner esceptio^al-,J§.-^iat^of" Qther>harhoars* o'f the Colony" oh the ihat-theyl are main outlet* [ftr"co:dJTetda~,o3 ; ?.vfou% the | fJovefnttient have -expended fttreadyy and are 'still large sums of money for the devetTipmeiit of coal.'and",'.for fclxe present,, lit : all "events, to.carry'on the works at jErreyi mouth themselves. ■ - " . A great feeling has been excited among the of the London Press by the extraordrtSfry'language which Mr. Ward Hunt used in speaking of tiie reix»rt of his | now celebrated sjwjeeh at the Manchester Hnaw dinner. Mr. Ward Hunt denied having spoken at that dinner of the two or three blunders made by the Admiralty, and added. " I attribute to the slovenliness or malevolence of the reporter words which never fell from my lips." The report, it seem*, bad precisely the same sense in all the London papers, and the reporters who were f resent assert that Mr. Ward ittnt used the words attributed to him. In any ease, the imputation of malevolence is ridteulotts, anil is unworthy of any person pretending to position or sense. It is nearly a generation since any public man made so gross a charge against the reporters of the t»ondon iVess. A ntttch less offensive expression made n«<a of by O'Cotmell caused the reporters of the "Times" to join in a declaration that they would not report his speeches any longer unless the imputation was withdrawn. The "Taranaki Budget" has the following ;—-** Iti a house in Devon-street the parents were aroused al»mt three o'clock a few morn- I ings since by the crying of one of the | children. Ott going into the next room with j alight, three or'four rats were observed to I jump off the stretcher on whiclrthe child lay. | There was blood on the pillow, and the child was found to have l>een bitten in several > ' places about the h&atl and face:- The child had ot'ten complained about something pulling ! its hair and waking it up in the night, but as no marks were observed before, it was thought the child had been dreaming only."

The ttsnal general meeting of members of the Oamani Mutual Benefit' Building -Society will he held in the Mechanics' Institute this evening at "-"{«»- A full attendance is re«|;te»ted. A special parade of the Oamam Artillery Volunteers is ordered i'..r this evening at eight o'clock. !:i our advertising columns ratepayers are .remiiut&d of the necessity of making inune'dtate payment orii!} rates due to the Corporation on or before the loth iiist,, failing which all defaulters will be struck off the roll. Jt is notified that an open harmony meetr hag of the Scar of Hope Lodge,. 1.0. G.T., will he held in the New Hall, lees-street, tomorrow evening, at eight o'clock.J