The Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1876.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 72, 14 July 1876, Page 2

The Evening Mail. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1876.

LOCAL AMD CSiSSRAL. A Press* Agency telegram informs tis that Dr. Featheratoti. the AgenMieneral for New Zealand, died in London, on the *2lst June. To-morrow evening Hegarty s Globe Combination Troupe will appear at the Masonic Hatl, tor the first time in Oamani. The metnbjrs of the company are spoken of in high terms by the Australian Press, and our Dxmedin contemporaries have also accorded them some flattering notices. Mr. Hegarty is a very old caterer for the public amusement, and we don't think he is likely to travel with a hart show. The troupe counts amongst its numbers K. A. Hart, the Lonuomt(|He : Kate Husse!!, a comic vocalist and dancer, and very <:lever in the latter line. Hennicke does the mysterious business, such as suspending a lady in mid-air, without any apparent support, in fact, he performs a number of Sylvester's tricks, and introduces some no velties in legerdemain. -John Mora.ii is also with the company, and is now becoming an old favorite. He first came out to Kcw Zealand with the Hibernian Company, and his Irish songs and datwes were very popular. We are glad to notice that the prices of admission have been reduced, being 35., 25., and Is. This is a step in the right direction. Oitr readers will have noticed for the last week an announcement in our advertising yotumus intimating that Messrs. Swanson and WarburtoK intend to dispose of their coaching plant and some first-ciass hacks and soaeh hordes. The sale will take place tomorrow, at the Swan Hotel Yard, Messrs. Fleming and HeAlcy being the auctioneers. Anvng the horses to be sold may be mentioned as worthy of special notice the celebrated steeplechase mare Miss Tatton and the racehorse Sir William, five years old, who has pttlled otF ten events. Then we have the well-known thoroughbred stallion Topthome, by Leotard, six years. There are several good hacks and a good selection ot' harness.

The " Bay «>if Plenty Times " states, on rc-[i.il-tu authority. that Mr. Veacy Stewart will » taut I a.-t a candidate for the Thames vacancy at the approaching election.

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this merning, Henry Hamlin, alias John Hamilton, arrested by Constable Moroney, for being drunk and disorderly in Thames-street on the 13th inst., was fined 55., -with the alternative of twenty-four hours' imprisonment. A civil case set down for hearing was of no public interest.

The "Poverty Bay Herald" announces the death of Te Ani Rakau, daughter of Auui Waka, at Owheta, on Wednesday, at the early age of seventeen years. The deceased was a young lady of considerable note in the district. Ani Waka was a celebrated chieftsinneas amongst the Poverty Bay natives ; she married a chief of the TJriweras named Te Foil rewa, and had three children—Alio Rakau and two sons. Ano's father died shortlv after peace was concluded with the Uriweras in 1S70; the mother parted this life about eighteen months since at Hicks Bay, as she was returning to the land of her forefathers. Extensive preparations were being made yesterday of the tangi, a number of sheep and a very ample proportion of liquid refreshments having been provided by her sorrowing kinsmen.

In his deprrtmental report on the Otago University Laboratory, for the year ending March 31 last, Mr. Black says:—"The chlorine and sulphuric acid observed in fiftytwo samples of whisky and brandy were no doubt introduced unintentionally with the water of dilution. The quantities of these impurities discovered were so small as to be quite innocuous, while their presence is an indirect proof of the addition of water to the distilled liquor. He was aware that iron is frequenth' reported in England as an adulterant in tea, and expected to have proof of its presence in the samples submitted here. While, however, trifling proportions of earthy matter and sand were found in six of the samples, in no case did he discover the presence of iron compounds introduced. The reactions for iron were strong and decided in every case, but on examination of several samples which he received direct from the grower in the N. E. Provinces of India, and which were delivered to him by Mr. Bell, the superintendent of the tea plantation there, he found the same decided evidence of the presence of iron. The samples from India were perfectly genuine in every respect. Iron is indeed a constant and constitutional constituent of tea itself: its presence, therefore, in the ash is no proof of adulteration."

The Town Council of Norwich having complained to the Lord Chancellor that solicitors, editors of newspapers, and brewers, though eligible for the office of Mayor, were in practice excluded from the Commission of the Peace, his lordship has signified, through the Secretary of Commission, that he "knows of no rule excluding the editors of newspapers from the Commission, and has never acted on that principle." The complaint was doubtless based upon the usage of Lord 11.-ttherly, who, when Chancellor, somewhat unreasonably refused the Commission to men who were in all respects qualified, but happened to be members of the public Press. Wc (" Printers' Register," Feb. 7) are glad to know that Lord Selborne, and the present holder of the Seals, Lord Cairns, have neither of them followed in the footsteps of their predecessor in this respect.

Referring to the offer of a reward of £SOO by the Government " for such information as will lead to the discovery of Winiata," the Epsom murderer, the "Herald" asks:— " What is the use of a reward in this ease? We all know where Winiata is. The person who knows better than anybody else is the Native Minister himself, and, indeed, it may also be said that he was recently in the company of the man who is now ' wanted.' But Winiata is now at large, and a horrid murder unpunished, not because we do not know where he is, but because of the want of courage to go and take him. The Government prefer, instead, to olfer Tawhiao, who is sheltering this criminal, power, and pension, and land. The only conceivable circumstance in which tiiis reward would be of any avail would be if Winiata incautiously trusted himself somewhere about debateable ground between tiic King country and our own settlement, and then he might be apprehended furtively. Most people will think, however, that this is rather a mean style of procedure."

In moving the Address in Beply in the Legislative Council, Captain Fraser, in the course of liis speech, observed :—" I may say that one of the largest warehouses in the Southern hemisphere has been erected in the city of Dunedin, giving healthy occupation to a great manner of young women, who work in large ami well-ventilated rooms. Another large factoiy is established, where from 200 to 300 people are employed in making clothes —not the worthless shoddy sold in the Colon}* by some importers, but clothes manufactured for the most part from our own wool. I may say that Dunedin has now become a manufacturing city. Her workshops turn out a great variety of useful articles. They turn out railway rolling stock, locomotives, and steam engines. I think, sir, that Dunedin now requires little or 110 aid from either the Central or Provincial Government. She holds the proud position of being the commercial capital of this Colony, and I think she will always maintain that position."

"JSgles," in the " Australasian," writes : << When Mr. Woods, late Minister of Railways, proposed the use of kerosene lamps in the passenger carriages of the Victorian Railways, I protested against the danger which might accrue from their use. Whatever the risk, I am bound to acknowledge, from personal experience, the superiority of the railway carnages' kerosene lamp as an illuminating agent. Upon a long railway journey the brilliant light, enabling the traveller to read with ease, was to me an agreeable surprise. The oppressive heaviness inspired by the dull glimmer of a dingy oil-lamp was unfelt, and it really seemed to be worth while running some little risk for the comfort experienced. lam told that the kerosene lamp used has been ingeniously adapted by a Victorian inventor, and that experiments tried with mimic collisions show it to be free from especial danger in a smash.''

It is with great pleasure we state that the scenes in connection with the Richardson Fusiliers have been put a stop to, at least for the present. An order has been issued by the officer in command of the district directing the members of the company not to attend parades till further notice. So that, while members may row and squabble as much as they please at meetings, or indulge in paper wars, the exhibitions that have taken place on parade have been brought to an end. We (" Daily Times ") hear that a proposal was lately made to the captain, which was that all officers, the captain included, should resign, and go back to the ranks for two or three months, the company during that time to be drilled by a sergeant told off by the commanding officer, and at the expiration of the time a new election to take place. To tliis, all the officers, the captain excepted, were agreeable, and as he would not give his consent to the arrangement, it came to nothing. The terms of the proposal were suggested by a gentleman holding a leading position in the Volunteers, and who made the suggestion in order to prevent, if possible, a recurrence of the scenes that have made the corps so notorious.

A correspondent of the '* Brisbane Courier," -writing from Aramac, Queensland, states that a report is current in that district of brutal conduct on the part of one of the Western police officers. One trooper is said to have been shot at the camp and then burnt, and another literally flogged to death whilst suspended in mid-air, and that he actually died whilst the officer in charge was flogging liim with fencing wire. The alleged cause for this inhuman treatment is that these troopers were becoming too familiar with a favorite gin of the officer. At first the report was considered too monstrous to deserve credence, but a statement afterwards received from an " eye-witness " would lead to the belief that the rumor is not wholly without foundation. The informant's statement referred to is to the following effect : —" A gin was seen with a pair of handcuffs on her ankles, said handkuffs eating into the flesh, and the poor gin in a frightful state. On inquiring of her why she was so punished, she replied: ' Vvh'ma jealous long mine.'" It further transpired that the man had been away on patrol for a month, and the unfortunate gin had her legs locked together during the whole of that time, the officer having taken with him all the keys of the irons.