The Evening Mail. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1877.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 489, 22 November 1877, Page 2

The Evening Mail. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1877.

No time has. apparently. Veen, lust in arranging the necessary preliminaries for the lectU'-e to bd delivered in aid of the Hospital and Benevolent Society by Count De Zaba. 'J he lecture wiU take place on \\ evening in the Masonic Hall, and not cm .Monday as announcedby <ur morning contt-mporarv, a>d the subject chosen is "The History of Poland." Count De Zal-a has delivered several lectures in Dunedin, and has received the high- st meed of praise, not on'y for the interesting and instructive matter which his lectures contained, but for ihe excellent manner in which they were delivered. We feel sun* from what we have gathered from those who have beard the Count, that an intellectual treat is in store for the people of Oamaiu. Setting avide the ex.eTnice of the promised lecture, fie lecturer should be honored wih a crowded audience for Hie kin lly manner in which he has come forward t> 1; cture on behalf of two of the most deseiving institutions of the town. We leain t at Count De Zaba will arrive in O-unaiu on Tuesday next.

< =amnru is likely to gain almost a* great a fame for the excellence of its poultry as ir. has obtained for its draught horse-. -N"t h>n°- since Mr. M'Karen stated in Court that he hail some fowls f>r which he woul.l not take millions of money, a <1 many persons no doubt envied him the possession o*' such treasures. It would seem, however, that he is not the only fortunate possessor of \ abiahle members "of the feathery tribe. Airs Bun-ham, of P;<paka'o, ha* some geese of special excellence. At any rate so it would seem from her statement in Const today. A little girl of some eight .-uramers was charged with k Uii-g a gosling belonging to Mrs. Boreham. "U hen asked what she estimated the value of the juvenile woose at, Mr-. Boreham expat ated at some fength upon the excellencies of her gees •. She wound up by saying that nobody but herself knew the value of geese, and lhat the tio.-ling was worth LI, although ths had only set it°down in the information at 2s. 6d. Mr. Parker. b'.M., in noticing the statement said that of course he d <1 not know what sympathy there w.s between Mrs Boreham ami geese which enabled her to form so co rf-et a=i estimate of \ha value of them, but he had no doubt that the exclusive possession of such knowledge would be of very great benefit t" her as it would give her an immense advantage over her more ignorant i eighbnurs. Mr Boreham also appears to he the happy possessor of some rarities, his specialities taking the shape of cows. Mr. Boreham was >ued by Mr. Holmes, the father of the little drl charged with the gosling-kill-ino-, for damages sustained through the defendant allowing the valuable above al'i ded to to tres;>ass on his land, and damage t! e pasturage of plaintiff's eow. For Ihe plaintiff it was urged that geese, by their droppings, entirely destroy pasturage for cattle, who refuse to torch griss wherever l'c-sc have b en. This was indignantly denied by Mr. Bon-ham, who asserted that Irs own cows cat the g-ass '•quite sweet" wh.:ie he kept the g--ese. To this statement. Mr. Parker remarked "The fact is, \ our wife has some peculiar fe.se. and \ou have some peonlbir cows."' Both cases "we;e decided against, Ihe Boreham's, but they had the satisfaction of knowing that thev were the possessors of (f-H;if, treasures, and that henceforth they will be the envied of all enviers. The regular for!nightly meeting of the Municipal Council will be held this evening, at 7.15 o'clock. The fortnightly meeting of the Oamaru Harbour Board takes place to-mor.ow moraine, at half-past 10 o'clock. The Xorth Otago Horticultural Society's show will be held in the Volunteer Hali on the Sth Pecemher. In addition to the liberal offered by the f-'ocietv, a number of private prizes have been promised by several gentlemen for va-ious classes of exhibits. A list of these will be found in our advertising columns. "Autolycus," in the Kelson Times, gives the following : —"What is a re-constructed Ministry?'' fUked Pr. Wallis in the House the other nijdit-. Me did not "pause for a leoly," like Pitt, but continued : "It means ti-at the shin is sinking, and lots are cast to see who shall be the Jonah. He is pitched overboard, ami the whale, in the sha e of a good fat billet, swallows him." When T iead the foregoing opinion, I scored one for the witty Doctor.

We clip the .following from the Daily Times: very sad accident occurred at the Half-wav Bush on Monday afternoon, whereby an infant aged only If! m<-nths. lost its' life. It appears"that at the entrance to a lane from the garden attached to Mr. Mahoie's hou-e a 'temporary gatewav is f'xed. which is so arranged that a rail is passed thrnutrh loops of flax. On the day in question the littlt fellow was following his grandraamn a about the ground, and in attempting to pass throrgh the gateway he appears to h«ve in some mysterious manner got his head mto on» of the loops, and then, it, is presumed, falling, became strangled. The infant's g:r.ndmrmm;\ aged 83. and sister. aged 12 \ears, were the only persons on the prenvses'at the time, and they had scarcely missed the lit'le fel'ow 10 minutes when they went in search of him, and found him, as desciibed. lifeless.