THE EVENING MAIL. THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1877. TEE £65,000 LOAN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 302, 12 April 1877, Page 2

THE EVENING MAIL.

THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1877. TEE £65,000 LOAN.

♦ Word* ar« thing*, and a droo of ink falling upon a thotnrht laay produce that which makes thottaantls | thinfe."

We are pleased to be able to state tliat : % telegram has teen received V>y Mr. Herd- , man, the manager of tine local branch of ; the Union Bank, to the effect that the 1 tTnion Bank of Anstralia has successfully floated the Oattsarn Harbour Board bonds fur £Uo r WXX The price realised is nearly £lol r averaging about £IOO ITs. Tlic aurceaafut Heating of tints loan is a matter of congratulation to the people of Oamaru, ■ as it will enable the Board to carry out those great works far the improvement of the harbour which they have in hand. The fact that the loan has been taken up above par etesrty shows that the English moneptetukra have stilt great faith in New Zeatanei, notwithstanding the many attempts that have been made to damage the Cetony's credit.

At the meeting of the County Council today & telegram was read from W ettington, stating that the Government had attltfjorised the sttto of 9*- &■!. to be paid int»> the bank to the credit of the Cottttetl. The Pttnedin Jockey Cltsb t«» have takett a very sensible view of the Fiiddt«j«»k • (stUtjaaliHttatipft case. As wilt lw sewn from a telegram in another column, a meeting of the Ctat* wast he hi for the purpose of taking a fetter from the Secretary of the North Otagis Turf Ctwb into consideration. when a resolution wast passed to the effect that further information should he obtained before the Clttb arrived at any decision as to whether the resolution of the JStewaAis of 1 the Tnrf Cltib showtd he endorsed otf not. ! We must certainly congratulate the Puncdin Clttb upon the practical manner in which it has acted. i: Messrs. Fleming ami ltedtey held a sale :: to-d;«y »f the Maerewhenna Hotel, sections ia the township of Pttutroon, and 100 of land adjoining the township. There was a very large attendance. The first lot submitted was the hotel which was started at L6W, and after a spirited run, LMtX) was reached, bat the reserve being LI3OO the property was passed in. Ass the sale of the township was contingent ttpon the sale of the hotel, all the sections were withdrawn. Privately, the IOCJ-acre section adjoining the township wast sold to Messrs. Hislop and Creagh. solicitors*. Oatnant. at a very satisfactory figure. There were a great miny buyers for the sections, and. privately, the caoMt of them conld have been sold at satisfactory* prices. The auctioneers are in treaty for the sale of the hotel. As soon as the purchase is completed, the sections will be advertised and sold. Aa advertisement in another column notifies the fact that certain concessions will be made on the railways during the C'liristcharch races. Mr. A. 11. Maade will offer for sale by public anetion to-morrow, at noon, at>out ajO tons* of cargo. The Secretary of the North Otago Turf Ctttb gir«a notice that all claims against the Club ma»t be sent in to-morrvw. We anderatasd that it is in contemplation ts» hold weekly quadrille assemblies in the Volunteer ilaO. The tint of the series will take place on Thursday evening next. Messrs. JEarte fleader), PbeJan, and Smith have been engaged to provide the necessary music, and everything will be done to make the assemblies both select ami attractive.

The monthly inspection of the head-quar-ters companies of Volunteers will take place to-morrow evening at half-past 7 o'clock. Mr. Hoskins has, we are glad to hear, sufficiently recovered from his severe illness to appear once more upon the stage.

We notice by our exchanges that Mr. Severn., the scientific lecturer, is meeting with very great encouragement in Dunedin. A shilling rate has been struck by the Lake County Council, and the amount of revenue estimated to be received therefrom has been put down at £7500.

The Health Officer of Dunedin reports that 82 deaths have been registered in the city during the fever epidemic, and that 12 of these occurred during the month of March. The Canterbury land sales last quarter amounted to L 105,541 10s. 2d., the amount for March being within a pound or two of L 90.000, and last week and o« the 9th, L26.00U worth was sold.

The Dunedin Fire Brigade has obtained permission to affix a rope to the clapper of the clock in the tower of the University Building, for the purpose of using it to give alarm in the case of fire. It wa3 pretty generally conceded that the arrangement could not have the effect of making the clock more erratic than it is at present.

A man named Robert Hickling has been sentenced to three montlrs imprisonment at Dnnedin for ill-treating his wife. The brute went home in a state of intoxication, and stmck his wife across the face with a brass candlestick, which v. as broken into two pieces by the force the blow.

A contemporary -iys : —"Things in dshnnie wo.ild not seem to bear a lively complexion, and" trust that Mark Tapleyism may reign supreme there. The Pom-lii Bin/ Sl'iiH.liinl says that no fewer than ninety-one summonses were issued oat of the 11. M. Court of that little hamlet during a period of two months. But then b«>k at the original name of the place. '* Poverty Bav/'

A writer in the Gi->t l'i>- r Ar>j>i-- asks : iVhat is the difference between a Chief Justwe and a District -Judge? Well, just this. The other day the Chief Justice was at W«3tj>«»rt. and Host Hughes, who, accustomed t«> the fuss and ceremony and bother attending the visit of a District Judge, ushered the CI. into some private apartment.* ; the dtning-tr.ble w.is laid out for a private d'»>ncr, "as per usual," when the C..1. wd. "Oh, Mr. Hughes, I don't want anytli'ii.' of this sort; I would rather sit at votir public t.;b!e, if you will allow me."

We i-ltp the following from the o'if'r!'»i.ii : —"We were yesterday shown !>y Mr. Walter, cx-May>>:\ a very ingenious Yankee invention—the * Stoekwell Self-lighting Oas Burner." I>y moans of which the gas is turned and lighted by the same movement of the stop-cock, thus doing away entirely with the use of matches. Affixed to the burner is a small maga/.inc containing a paper tape, which is 'lava' tipped. By a turn of the stop-cock the strip, which is dotted with an ignition mixture, moves upwards, and at the same instant a small hammer strike* one oi the dots and creates a dash stitticiciit to i«nite the gas, which is turned on by the same movement of the cock. The gas is turned off in the ordinary way. For otiiccs where it is not desirable to use matches, for street lamps, and for bedrooms, &e., the contrivance is a most useful and convenient one. The whole contrivance is simple, and may be adapted to all gas fixtures by the removal of the ordinary burner."

"Decidedly one oi the most novel catches that has ever been made on a cricketground," the Hamilton Sj>n:lalor, Victoria, states, "was that which disposed of Mr. Chandler on Saturday in his second innings at Cavendish, lie was bailing in spleud'd style, doing pretty well as he liked with the bowling, when Captain O'Connor sent him in a slow one. This he got hold of pretty well, aud sent it away to long-on—a low, skimming hit, that but for a strange accident must inevitably have been the means of adding six to the score. One of the Cavendish players (Mitchell), who was standing at nr'd-on, made an attempt to catch it, but missed, the ball travelling altogether too fast for him to hold it. Suddenly the leathern sphere disappeared ; none could tell where it had gone, those in the field were nonplussed, the spectators wondered, and the baismeu continued to run. Then Mitchell recovered fiom the shock he had received, felt a lump in the body of his shirt, put in his hand, pulled out the ball, and joyfully ciied, 'How's that?' 'Out.!' said the umpire, and Chandler had to retire, very crestfallen at his bad luck. The ball struck Mitchell on the wrist, ran up his sleeve, ripping it up as it went, and safely lodged itself in the body of bis shirt."

The Bruce Herald says :—" No more con vincing proof could be offered of the present depreciation of property in Milton than by the sale of the pottery works. The price realised was but little, if anything, in excess of the market value a few months ago of the freehold of the sections upon which the works are built. A runner employed on the Lyttdton Times (says an exchange) had a i:a: row escape of being killed on Monday. He was thrown froni his horse into a hedge, and the heavy bag of papers he was carrying slipped down with the stx - ap over his throat. Unable to release himself, he was almost dead when discovered, and did not recover his senses for many hours. The "Wellington Argus says : —"By the end of the week 100 tons of coal will have been removed from the hull of the Eli Whitney. Mr. Gougli, the driver, has been only a fortnight engaged at the work, while the remaining 600 tons will probably be raised to the surface in about 12 weeks. Whether the hulk will be raised bodily or blown up is a matter that has not been decided." A very painful accident occurred at the Christcliurch railway station ou Saturday. According to the Press, a pointsman named Pearney was shifting a set of points to allow an engine drawing a number of empty trucks to come in on an inner lme, when his foot became jammed between the rails. The flange of the engine caught him and threw him down, and in trying to extricate himself his arm lay across the rail, several of the trucks going over it before the engine could be stopped. The arm was broken at the elbow and wrist, and the toe of the right foot badlv bruised.

Wc take the following paragraph from the (Jur.rdbm of yesterday :—" The Fire Brigade lias received a very sharp rub over the knuckles at the hands of the City Council. At the request of the Mayor, an extract from the minutes of the proceedings of the Brigade, relative to the acceptance of tenders for the supply of boots, was furnished. From this it appeared that instead of following the usual rule of accepting the lowest, the brigadiers had patronised the highest tenderer. There was a difference of ten shillings per pair in the prices of the highest and lowest tenderer, and it was mentioned in explanation that as their working boots from last year were still good, the brigadiers had gone in for a supply of superior 'understandings,' and that the contractor was one of their number. Thereupon arose a storm of fierce denunciation, and the Council unanimously resolved to 'dock <>ii'' the 10s. per pair, or about Ids, from the Brigade's subsidy, and decided that in future all supplies should be dealt with by their own Fire Brigade Committee." „_____„,