The Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1877.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 417, 29 August 1877, Page 2

The Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1877.

The cases of horses bolting which we reported a few days ago, and the serious injuries attending one of the cases, has brought prominently before us the necessity for drivers of vehicles being compelled to pay more attention to the horses under their charge. Almost every day instances are to be met with where drivers of cabs leave their horses standing in the middle of Thamesstreet without any provision being made to prevent them bolting. We have ourselves seen innumerable instances of the kind at the cab stand opposite the Post Office. Surely there is some provision in the Corporation Bye-laws against such a dangerous proceeding. In other towns in New Zealand such carelessness on the part of cab-drivers and others meets with fitting punishment at the hands of the Resident Magistrates. We would suggest to the Municipal Council the advisability of directing the attention of Mr. Toms to the matter. Regard for the safety of life and property necessitates the taking ioi. steps which might easily be made to reduee to a minimum the possibility of hoises bolting.

We would take the opportunity of reminding our readers that applications for shares in the Scottish and New Zealand Investment Company (Limited) will be received by the local branch of the Celonial Bank of Eew Zealand until Friday next. The capital of the company is to beLSOO,OOO in 100,000 shares of L 5 each. Of this number of shares, 90,000 were retained for Great Britain, and in a few days applications were :reeeived for no less than 150,917 shares. 10,(000 shares were set aside for New; Zealand, of which the Colonial Advisiug Board have determined to offer 4000 outside the Southland district, where the company's operations will, we are informed, be chiefly carried on. The very great amount of success which has attended other companies of a like nature in New Zealand warrants us in believing that the Scottish and New Zealand Investment Company will prove a -highly remunerative concern.

There is no probability of the Dunedin football team trying conclusions with our local footbaffists, as they leave Timaru this evening at 6 x> ! clock, per steamer, for Dunedin, where preparations are beiog made to xeceive them in a fitting manner, after aor quitting themselves so creditably throughout th« Colony.

; Mr. Thornton, Hon, Sec. of the Oamaru Philharmonic Society, notifies in another column that, in consequence of the inclemency of the weather there will be no practice of the Society this evening.

The football match played between the Dunedin and Temuka teams yesterday resulted in favour of the former by one touch-down. The game was a hard-fought-one throughout, and is declared to have been one of the best contested ever played in the Colony.

The adjourned meeting of gentlemen favourable to the establishment of a Gun Club will be held this evening, at eight o clock, at the Northern Hotel. A large muster is particularly requested. A special parade of the Citizen Cadets will take place this evening, at seven o'clock, for the purpose of making a presentation to the late captain of the company, Mr. L. Bruce. All members of the corps are required to be in attendance. We have been favoured with a view of the collection of chromo copies of fifteen of Mr. Gully's paintings of New Zealand scenery. They are about 12in. xl 5 in. in size, and have been published by Messrs. Wise and Co., of uunedin. The work of copying these excellent paintings of the greatest of Colonial artists was entrusted to Messrs. Marcus Ward and Co., London. When we say that this firm is the largest and most successful chromo-lithographers in London, and that they have performed the work in their best style, we have said enough to show that full justice has been done to Mr. Gully's excellent paintings. Some of the chromos in particular are beautiful works of art, the best of the series being in our opinion Wiarau Gorge (Nelson), Mitre Peak (Milford Sound, Mount Cook (Otago), Mount Egmont (Taranaki), and two bush pictures giving capital ideas of the foliage and vegetation of the Colony. The whole collection are calculated to afford a very good notion of much of the magnificenb scenery to be met with in New Zealand—its snowy mountains, rugged cliffs, placid bays, and beautiful lakes. The price of the series is L 6 10s. or L 5 ss. to subscribers. Already a large number have been dissposed of, and there is little "doubt that the enterprise of Messrs. Wise and Co. will meet with that amount of support which it demands. Messrs. Seymour and Lawrie are now in Oamaru for the purpose of delivering the chromos to subscribers.