THE EVENING MAIL. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1877.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 355, 13 June 1877, Page 2

THE EVENING MAIL. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1877.

It will be a matter for considerable public satisfaction to know that the Georgia Minstrels are being favorably criticised by the Christckurcli press, and that Mr. Cotterill and Miss Carandini have closed a successful season at Blenheim. It is not necessary, of course, to enter into the reasons that actuated the C'hristchurch press in dealing so liberally with the Georgias—whether it was a welcome drink doled to a thirsty reporter, or an advertisement to the publisher, is no business of ours—the fact remains the same. Then again, how very consoling it is to be assured that Mr. Cofcterill and his good lady have been successful. What we complain of is the vagueness of the language in which the information is couched. Are we to go into ecstasies over the fact that they have been successful, or that their success lias terminated, rr are we to rejoice over the circumstance that it is possible to be successful in a place like Blenheim. We would like to know. Perhaps the Press Agei.cy would oblige by being more explicit in future. It is, we are quite aware, not the fault of the proprietors of the institution, but of the sub-agents, whose sins of omission and commission should cause them considerable remorse. The fact i?, we might just as well have waited for our exchanges for such information ; and, if it makes no difference to .!:j P. A., we prefer to do so in future. Alice Purnell, alias Mary Ann Greaves, who was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment at the District Court for perjury, and Win, John Craig, who has to stand his trial at the Supreme Court for larceny, were forwarded to Dunedin to-day by the Waitaki, under the care of Constable Donovan. A lad named William Davies, formerly an inmate of the industrial School, charged with having deserted from his lawful employer, Mr. Patrick I'yan, of Otepopo, was also sent to Dunedin by the Waitaki to be dealt with.

The heavy rains that have fallen recently have left traces along the railway line between Oamaru and Tinum. The morning train from the latter place was necessitated to creep along the line here and there, in order to avoid probability of accident, and if the trains that are notified to traverse the road during the day fare as well, it will be a fortunate circumstance. In some places the rails have been left bare of ballast, but fortunately not to any great extent as yet; and as the weather seems to be improving, there is every reason to hope that none of those unpleasant delays usually concomitant with bad weather will interfere with the regularity of our railway communication. We should think it quite possible, with a little engineering skill, to prevent such periodical occurrences by a little attention to drainage in low-lying localities. Messrs. Wm. Manning and Alex. Thomson have been elected for the two vacancies in the Kakanui Road Board for the Totara Sub-division. There was no sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, his Worship being engaged at the Licensing Court at Hampden. A Waimate correspondent sends us the following : " A sad accident occurred yesterday to a young man named Samuel Palmer, aged 19. The unfortunate man. who was a bushman at Bartlett's mill, was engaged falling timber in Haye's bush, when a tree fell upon him. lie was extricated from his awful position, and Dr. Webb was immediately sent for, but on his arrival life was extinct." „

We are compelled to hold over a letter signed " One of the Clan." The regular monthly meeting of the Waitaki County Council -will be held at noon to-morrow. A speciarmeeting'of Municipal Council will be held to-morrow evening at the usual hour, for the t-ansaction of a quantity of miscellaneous business. Mr. R. Stout's lecture on "The Local Option Bill," called together a crowded audience at Turnbull's Hall, Timaru, last evening. The lecturer dealt with the subject in his usual able manner, and was listened to with undivided attention throughout. There was but a small audience at the Ma-sonic Hall last evening, the wretched weather militating greatly against the attendance. The same programme as that presented on the previous evening was gone through with great spirit. For this evening a decided novelty will be presented in the shape of a pantomime, which will be placed upon the stage in a most complete manner. A poll in connection with the Waitaki Eoad Board elections takes place to-morrow between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. There are only two Rub-divivisions in which the ballot is necessary. In the Weymouth Sab-division the poll will be taken at the Schoolhouse, Pukeuri, the candidates being Mr. Thomas Duncan and Mr. William Dennison. The poll for the Papakaio Subdivision will take place at the Schoolhouse, Papakaio, the candidates being Mr. Donald Borrie and Mr. Peter Aitcheson