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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 423, 5 September 1877, Page 2

John Madden, who was sentenced the other day to a months' imprisonment for vagrancy, was forwarded to Dunedin this morning. The unfortunate man Hinehy, who has been ordered to lie confined in the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum as a confirmed lunatic, was also a passenger by the Waituki. Contrary to expectations, John Chalker was not sent to Dunedin. as it is expected that the necessary sureties for his liberation to hail, pending the decision on the appeal against the conviction, will he forthcoming to-day or tomorrow. In the meantime Chalker is busily employed white-washing the walls of the Oamaru (laid. There was no sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning. The Papakaio ploughing match will take place on .Friday next. It will be seen by an advertisement in another column that a special train will leave Oamaru for (iihson's siding at a quarter to ten o'clock, returning at live p.m. The monthly sitting of the District Court will beheld on Fiidaynext, and the Clerk of the Court gives notice that the Court will sit at 2 p.m. instead of 10 a.m.

Mr. A. Brunton, from Dunedin,' is announced to preach in the Tecs-street Hull to-morrow evening, at half-past seven o'clock, on 'which occasion a number of Sankey's hymns will be sung. The public are shortly to be favoured with opportunities of securing the lease of some valuable allotments in Oamaru. It will be seen that both the Harbour Hoard and the Corporation are advertising that the lease of several sections in town will be sold by auction on early dates.

j A general meeting of the members of the Waitaki County Acclimatisation Society J will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday next, for the purpose of adopting the rules and electing otiiee-bearers. We have been requested to state that gentleman who have not already become members of the Society, but who are willing to enrol themselves as such, may attend the meeting and pay their subscriptions. JDy so doing they will have the right to take part in the proceedings. An effort is about to be made to establish a tent of the Independent Order of Eechabites in Oamaru. Mr. G. .(. Clarke, P.0.K.. of Dunediu, is announced to pay a visit to the Podge Rescue, 1.0. G.T., on Friday evening, for the purpose of explain, ing the objects and principles of the Kechabites, with a view to opening a tent in connection with the order, should there be sufficient encouragement. The 2\ r ric Zealand HrroM, speaking of the Soldene Opera Company, says:—"Three things may be alhrmcd of this company—(l) That everything is done by them with a taste and upon a scale worthy of the most critical audiences; (2) the organisation of the company is almost perfect; (3) and that the balance and selection of voices display the nicest skill, to which may be added great acting power. No performances could : reflect higher credit upon a management than these." I

Thomas \Y. Longuct, late Postmaster and officer in charge of the Telegraph Oilier at Palmerston, has been committed for trial for embezzling moneys belonging to the Government. It is stated that the Xni- Zealand Smi newspaper is to be enlarged from fourteen to sixteen pages, and that an evening paper to be called the Sun is also to be soon started in Christchnrch in cnnueetion with it by the same company. Keren ing to the conduct of the Government in connection with the Oainani Mail libel case, the f'lutha Loivh'f remarks : "The Government is at prisent defendant in one libel c.se— that of Russell v. the Waha Munri newspaper, which is said to cost £1(10 a day. We presume Jones' case will necessitate a like expenditure. Thus the Government have entered very heartily into a new channel for getting rid of the surplus revenues of the country."