The Evening Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1876. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 156, 20 October 1876, Page 2

The Evening Mail.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1876. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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"Fortune favors the brave J" After a troab'oos voyage of some thirty-odd weeks, most of the time in hot water, tile Liberator and its Captain, Mr. William Hooper, have at last reached sailing grounds of a milder temperature, and there would appear to be every probability of their yet reaching - a

haven of safety.' Mr. William Hooper has ; had difficulties to contend against since he j joined the ranks of literature which would , have damped the ardor and broken the spirits | of most men ; but Mr. William Hooper is made'of the stuff from which heroes spring, and his soul soared above that chronic plague to the literary profession—a lack of that great essential on life's highway, the " root of all tvil." In the face of this powerful drawback, with no funds to speak of, h= not only successfully managed to launch the Libei-alor, but with the same amount of capital he has weathered the storms of thirty weeks and two; and single-handed has fought his way to eminence—eminence, certainly, peculiar to Mr. Hooper—laying all and sundry prostrate who dared to stop his onward career. Hi 3 trenchant pen has hurled anathemas at the "publican'' and- the sinner, and although not always in the most chaste or ornate language, yet with sufficient vigor to make the stoutest qu-iil. Birch writhed beneath the stinging rebuke <»f the hydropathist, and, appealing to the law, tasted tiic rod, was beaten with hi-s own w-apon. and iat the dust. But Mr. Thomas Biivh was only a mere J.P., and, having successfully mastered the "smaller fry."*the editor of th t L'.hiraior Hies at higher .[narry, and throws down thegumtet to the great Fish himself, the Whittington of Oca"0. There is nothing so successful as su-cess, and now that the Liberator and its editor have male their "names known' throughout the length and breadth of the 1-ind, "there are plenty rea ly to step in and share in the fruits of the victory. The Good Templars are about forming a company, having for its object the purchase of the New Zftt'iii'l Liberator and '/'>-m/jeruiirp Advocat';, with a view of amalgauiat-ng the same, and ; publishing a journal to hs called the Nvic ' Zmljiul Tfiiiis.riiiic* Tim-n. The com- any i will have a capital of £.~>OS), and a large : number »>f share* have bsen already t >ken up; j and we bel.uve the first number will api ear i 0:1 the fir.it Saturday in November.

Considerable amusement was created in the Court during the hearing of a osc of* furious riding, the defendant being somewhat insulted at the question put by h s counsel as to whether he considered the hoi-se he had been riding was capable of beating the train- The pony in question was sixteen years old but it was sworn that repeatedly it had doue seventy-two niile3 in a day, without turning a hair.

It is notified by the Telegraph Department that teleg aphie messages, to catch the Alhambra, which leaves the Bluff to-morrow for Australia, will be received at the office, Oamaru, up to eleven o'clock. The Daily Times publishes in this morning's issue, the correspondence laid upon the table of the House last nicdit, consisting of a lengthy letter from Sir (leorge Grey to the Governor ; the reply of the Marquis of Norinanby ; and also an answer thereto.

As a confirmation of the telegram we published from our Special Correspondent last evening re the despatch from Earl Carnarvon, we extract the t'ollow.ng from this morning's Dune.lin Times:—-' His Honor the Superintendent received the following telegram from the Private Secretary to his Excellency the Governor yesterday afternoon :'I am de sired by bi3 Excellency the Governor tt> forward, for your Honor's information, a copy of a telegram which he has received this morning from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reply to a telegram sent by your Honor on the 6th inst. :—"Have received telegrams from Superintendents Macandrew and Grey, complaining of enforcement of Provincial Abolition Act, against strong feelings of Provinces, and urging reference to law officer.* and disallowance ; also stating disturbances imminent. Was duly allowed on alvicc of law officers, and cannot be disallowed. I trust no real risk of Constitutional disturbances, and have full confidence in yotu- judgment.—Signed, Cabxabvox.' "

The beat portion of th? diy was taken up at the I'oliee Court with the hearing of t\v<» charges brought by the police for furious 'riding, in the Qnst of which two boys were the delinquents. The' proceedings were spun ont to a most interminable length, particularly in the case against the youths, fully an hour being frittered away in a paltry charge which should have been disposed of in a quarter the time. At half-past one, the Court adjourned to recuperate its strength before attacking the mass of civil cases which appeared on the cause list. The accident during the contest £or:the Consolation Stakes yesterday is likely to prove fatal to Larrikin. Indeed it is only surprising that const lering the injuries received, he is still alive. Howevar, up to this afternoon he vraz lyiug on the spot to which he was dragged out of the water-hole, it is almost impossible he can recover. A mo3t extraordinary o.ice was heard at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Dunedin, on Wednesday, in which a late inmate of the Lunatic Asylum claimed £IOO damages from the Superintendent, tor brutal f tsaulta committed upon him while in the institution. The case was only partly heard, the farther hearing being adjourned for a week. The usage sworn to by the plaintiff is something monstrous, but it is only fair to state Ciuusel for Mr. Humewishe.l the failed in-£ quiry should be instituted into made; aud that 'whilej the ewuJ^y||jM

plaintiff was given in a most rambling manner. Dr. Hulme expressed it as his opinion that the plaintiff would soon have to be relegated back to his old quarters. A full report, as far as the case was heard, appears elsewhere.

An accident of a most unheard of character is reported by the Southland News, as having occurred in the New River district on the morning of the 12th inst. While one of the daughters of a settler was engaged in feeding cows with turnips, and in the act of stooping down, one of the animals somewhat suddenly turned its head round, and its horn entered the young lady's mouth, .splitting her tongue from root to tip. Dr. Butler, of Eyal Bush, and Dr. Hannan, of Invereargil, were summoned to attend the sufferer, and succeeded in sewing up the tongue, but up till Saturday last it was with the utmost difficulty she could either articulate or partake of anything.

It is a disgrace to a Christian community that a woman should be allowed to die for lick of nourishment. The following sad story is told by the Taranaki Bud-jet, of the 13th instant :—" A man named Ward, a Government immigrant, came from Waitara this" morning to register his wife's death, a young woman of twenty-one years. About fmr months ago she was taken ill, and has since then beau confined. The husband being unable to pay for attendance has had to act as i.urse, and was consequently unable to earn anything even if he could have got work. The wife is believed to have died from sheer want of nourishment. The man appears to be in a pitiable condition, and almost helpless. It looks like a hard ca3e."