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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 343, 30 May 1877, Page 2

The charge preferred against Charles Edmund Thompson of having stolen a large amount of money and a quantity of jewellery, belonging to Walter B. Ramsay, which was concluded at the Resident Magistrate's Court late yesterday afternoon, terminated, as we predicted it would, in the discharge of the accused. The conclusion of our report of the case will be found on the fourth page of our present issue. Owing to the breakage of the submarine cable between Victoria and Tasmania, messages for the latter place will be telegraphed to Melbourne and sent by post from there to their destination. Mails for Australia per s.s. Albion close at the Bluff to-morrow at 11 a.m. We would remind our readers that the Mirror of England will be shown at the Masonic Hall this evening for the first time in Oamaru. As we have already said, this panorama is one of the best in existence, and we have no doubt it will meet with a liberal amount of support during its short stay in Oamaru.

The Otago Waste Lands Board are evidently not wavering in their determination to put up the various runs, as their leases expire, for public competition. A special telegram in another column announces that runs 52 B and 52 C are not to be re-leased. It has, however, been decided to recommend the Government to re-lease run 74, as, we presume, it is unfit for any other purpose than that to which it is now being put. From a special telegram published elsewhere it will be seen that the Education Board has declined to entertain the very reasonable application of the Oamaru Mechanics' Institute to change the Wyndham endowment for a picee of land nearer Oamaru. There was no business done at the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, the criminal sheet being blank. The bye-laws passed by the Municipal Council with reference to licensed theatres and licensed vehicles, and which were published in our issue of the 9th instant, come into force on Friday next. In view of the establishment, by the Timaru Herald, of a new evening paper, the South Canterbury Times seems to have awoke to the fact that some effort must be put forth to maintain its present position. In future, it will charge one penny, instead Of twopence, for its issue. The opposition will at least be the means of securing a decent evening print to the people of Timaru, if it fail to benefit the proprietors. The number of the Illustrated New Zealand Herald just to hand is very good, containing a large number of capital sketches, amongst them being one giving a pretty correct view of the new Government Buildings at Lyttelton and another of the time ball tower at the same place. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, after our reporter left, Martha Craig, alias Cohen, was charged with having, on the 12fch inst., stolen a pocket-book from one John Brown, containing four L2O-notes, two LlO-notes, and two L5-notes. The accused, for whom Mr. O'Meagher appeared, pleaded "Not Guilty." The case was remanded until Monday next, the accused haviug only been arrested a few hours previously. Bail was allowed—three responsible persons in L3O each, or four in L2O. We may mention that the money alleged to have been stolen by the accused is the same as that for the stealing of which William John Craig at present stands c<?mmitted to take his trial at the District Court. Some fresh evidence, however, seems to have cropped up which, it is said, connects Martha Craig with the theft. The usual weekly Quadrille Assembly will take place at the Volunteer Hall to-morrow evening. We are compelled to hold over, until tomorrow, a letter from a correspondent signing himself " Ishmaelite," in reference to the Oamaru boarding-houses. Some important notifications in regard to the forthcoming elections for members of the Waitaki, Kakanui, and Waiareka Road Boards appear elsewhere. A general meeting of the Committee of the Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held at the Secretary's office, on Saturday next, at 11 a.m., when the consideration of Mr. GemmelFs motion for the holding of a ploughing match will be entered upon, besides some other important business. We direct attention to an advertisement elsewhere notifying certain alterations in the time of departure of trains from Oamaru. A scratch match will be played by the members of the Oamaru Football Club tomorrow afternoon, commencing at half-past two o'clock.