The Evening Mail. TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1877.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 440, 25 September 1877, Page 2

The Evening Mail. TUESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1877.

It will he seen from our Parliamentary report that the der-i'e of Oamaru to have North t 'tagi constituted a separate education district has been refused by the House of Representatives. 'Mr. f-hrim-ki endeavoured to get Ihe Comity of Waitaki added to.th?. South Canterbury education district, but ihe proposal was rejected. And so our education matters are to continue to be managed,, or rather mismanage d, in Dunedin.

At. the Resident Magistrate's Court this monrng before T. W. Parker, E q.. K.M., and W. J. Steward. Esq., J. P., Maria Townsend was fined 20s. for a lowing two cows to wander at large with t--*ther-r<>s>i-s. "William Fiaser. charged oil remand with having appro) iriat d the mm of LlO be'ongi g to Archibald Grant, was committed for tiial at the next silting of the i : i-t iet Court, his Worship remarking that he Weil d consider the amount of bail. At a meeting of the Provisional Directors of the Oamaru Stone Quarrying and Export Company ye-terday afternoon, the f■ >ll --wing geutlemeii were pre-eut : —His Worship tile Mayor (in trie chair). Mes.-rs. G. Muaro. Procter, Sumpter, J iddle, Booth. Gibbs, 0. S. Allen, and J. K. Brown. Secretary. The draft prospectus of the Company was read and ap -roved. Mr J. K. Bi own was appointed Agent for Hooting the Gunnany, and Mr. C. S. A lien was appointed Treasurer ; deposits on shares to be paid into th-i Bank of New Zealand, at Oamaru, Chris'telmrch, Dunedin, or Melbourne.

We learn from a private sotrce that Mr. Dawson, the station master on the railway afc Otep"i'o, is about to he transferred to Haveiishourne, near Dunedin. ATr. Dawson's plnce wil' he filled 1-y iir. D. Iv. ' h<>des, at present goocis cieik at the Diinedni station. The animal hors 3 . parade of the Tinrun Aiiriculiural and Pasror.d Association takeulace on S;turd-iy next., and entries must be lodged by 5 p.m. on Thursday.

A General Govern" ent Gazette, just to hand notifies that correspondence ior the United Kingdom may be forwarde I ster.mers of the Orient Line at tiie ordinary rates of posia-_e f>>r ship lett.-rs. Cor: e-pon-dence intended for despatch by the ;>bore r-ute should Le diitmo.ly indorsed "per Orient l ine."

Mr. It. P>. Martin, the Government Auctioneer, will hold a snle of town ami suburban sections at the Court-house to-morrow, at ii( 011.

At the ordinary' weekly meeiing of the St. Pauls' Young jN!eii's Association evening. Mr. Ge.oige Meidrum mid a pnper on Venn's, Scotia's Poet." saul cited n an.' incidents relating to P.ums and his f:;mily '1 he ] >nper elicited a lengthy cli?cußsi'»n, and caused many remaiks in support, of the excellence of the works of I>urns and ihe good li : s poems had done to lovers of poetry throughout the world, hut especially Scot land, lor Scotchmen only enn thoroughly understand his writings. All of the members admitted Bums to be a. great genius, yet some held that his influence on mankind was not for good.