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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 546, 31 January 1878, Page 2

A great -leal hns been said in deprecation of tlit- system <>f cumulative voting provided in the new Kdmation Act. hut. seeing that a few men can. ti> a moral certainty, secure the election tit' <me or more candidates by its aid. it will have the eli'ect of encroaching upon tlii? •Mings" that fester in some communities. Messrs. L Cdall and <'■. Snmpner, .T.P'.s presided at the Resident .Magistrate's C'oi;rt this morning. Frank Evans was charged by | Sergeant Beatty with having been _ drunk ! and disrderly. It being his first offence he I was discharged. Inspecter Toms charged Robert Kenan with having left his horse and and express waggon unattended, the accused was tineifios. Some other charges were also brought in reference to breaches of the Corporation bye-laws. The District Coroner, T. W. Parker, Esq., held an inquest at the Peebles Hotel to-day, on the bodv of Charles Kiel. From evidence it appeared that the deceased had been drinking heavily, and was always in a state of stupiditv. He was engaged by the Messrs. Wilson, on the 23rd, to go harvestins. He worked satisfactorily, but was observed to act Htrangely, up to Saturday afternoon. On Sunday lie n-as absent from the hut until after midnight. On being asked what he had been doing, he replied, '•Trying to cut my throat." On putting him to lied the men noticed blood on his ham', and a razor fell from his coat-pocket, oa which there was also blood. On Monday deceased did not go to work, being too ill ; on Tuesday he worked in the afternoon, and the men, missing him in the evening, went in search, and timid him wandering about. Could get no satisfaction nut of him. Took him tollie hut and put him t>> bed. When they awoke at four o'clock in the morning he "was gone. While searching for him. they found his body in a creek, at eight o'clock, quite dead. The jury retnrned a verdict of " Found Drowned." We regret that extraordinary pressure on our columns has compelled us to curtail our report of the Hospital meeting, and omit, the School < 'ominittee's balance sheet and other interesting; matter.

We observe that Mrs. W. E. Brunton is prepared to teach pupils the pianoforte and voc.il music, and that drawing clashes are he'd twice a week. Mrs. Brnnton's and Miss Rose's dancing class will also reopen mi Fridny next, at the Waitaki hall. The Kakaimi Meat Works will re-onen in nbont .1 fortnight. This will have the effect o*' creating a confide able amount of business in and around Kakaimi.

The usual meetingof the Municipal Council will be held this evening.