The Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1878.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 611, 17 April 1878, Page 2

The Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1878.

Of the 46 waggons that came from Christchurch to Oamaru with grain last week, and left here on Saturday last for the place from whence they came, greatly to the disappointment of those who felt that they were badly needed in this district, a considerable number returned to Oamara rm Thursday night loaded with grain, and the balance arrived last night with 35.000 feet of timber for the waterworks. Arrangements have now been made whereby it is anticipated that the balance of the grain awaiting transport in this district will be brought on to Oamaru without further difficulty, as a number of trucks that were employed north have been released and brought to Oamaru. A few days ago we stated that a section of the railway employes had struck work. It appears that the men had been working late and early without extra remuneration. The railway regulations in force at the present time will not admit of overtime being paid ; but it is hopjd that those regulations will shortly be amended, so that railway employes, as well as other working men, will receive a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. Mr. Back, who is now here seeing to the rectification of several matters in connection with this department urgently requiring his attention, has succeeded in healing the sore under which the railway employes were smarting. It appears that the strike was brought about through a misunderstanding, it being the very natural idea of the men that if they worked more overtime duriug the week than would make an ordinary week's work, they were entitled to additional remuneration, and somehow thought that it was the intention of the railway authorities to award it to them. For the present, in consequence of representations made by Mr. Back, Acting General Manager, the men have resumed work with a right good will, and we trust that such reasonable at rangements will be made in the future with regard to the treatment of these men that there will not be a recurrence of such a difficulty, which was all the greater because it occurred at a bnsy time.

Persons going on board steamers for the purpose of bidding adieu to their friends would do well not to remain too long in jtiving expression to their words of farewell. This morning several persons narrowly escaped having a lorcd trip to Dunedin. Thev linil remained down in the recesses of the cabin of the Waitaki a few minutes too Imitr. anil were suddenly aroused to the fact that thev were some distance from the wharf, and Inuil were their calls for some means of reaching land. A boat from the Sissy was at once procured, and the party safely deposited on the wharf, much to their satisfaction.

The timber brought here by special last night was carried to the several points where it is required this morning. We are glad to be able to state that there is no reason why the waterworks should not be finished within ten months provided the Council, viewing the importance of the matter, exerts itself to further tiieir completion.

There was not a large attendance at the entertainment giyen on Monday night last in aid of the funds of the Presbyterian Church which it is contemplated to erect near Teaneraki. This may be partly attributed to the absence of variety ia the programme, which, although very excellent so far as it went, would have perhaps been ail the better for the intersper.?ion of a little vocal and instrumental music.

An advertisement in another column announces that Mr. H. J. Edwards, Thamesstreet, has been appointed chemist to die Loyal Oamaru Lodge, 1.0.0.F.,M.U.

Those who may he desirous of attending Wt'fisrs Fleming and Hedley's sale of Mr. W. C'raij; live stock, whic'i will be held at Waimotu to-morrow and the following day, wiil be pleaded p> hear that special trains will leave for the .sssiie of operations eaeli day at 10.40 a. m.

Last Snndaj- af terii-wji a presentation was marie l>y the St. Paul's Sunday School, Dmieclin. to -Mr. Anderson, late Secretary of the hchool, who is leaving Dunediu for Uamaru. The present consisted of a reference Bible and .copies oi several oratorios. At Wellington a barmaid smashed a ■waterjo •; over the head of a man who had sooken disrespectfully to fe-er. Mr. Crawford, 11.M., slid it served him right, and mulcted the j voting woman in costs only. She created ! some aciusemeut in Court by taliiug tlie defendant's counsel that she was not hicde.bt — but respectable. The following paragraph appears in the TiM'tru Herald ot t.':;s morning:—The railway department are now njaking every possible effort to carry off the accumulated grain stocks, aiitl certainly deserve very great credit for the way they are working. Special trains, sometimes containing between fifty ] ami a hundred trucks, may be seen arriving | at, or passing through, the Timaru station several times a day, aud the employes are going continually. Of course tiie wear and tt?ar on the rolling stock and rails is something terrible, but we do not tee what help thare is for it. Complaints by farmers and merchants about delays in the traJKc are .daily becoming less, and we soon hope to hearoio f&sre oi them.

ffe regret to have to record an exceedingly pstnful aeeidy.pt which occurred to Mr. Jon-js, the Timaru District Station Master, yesterday afternoon, ft- seems that Mr. Joue3 was in a track attached to a special goods trains at the !>'t. Andrew's.sfca£:on, and while going into the goods shed there, ivas struck with great foree on the side of the face and head by the large sliding door. Mr. .joass was at once brought into town, where he was prompt!}" attended to by Dm Fisher and M&cintyre. It was found that his jaw was severely fractured, both ears almost sev.ered from (t&e head, while his neck and other parts of iiis face were very much bruised, J

The doctors succeeded in setting the broken jaw and otherwise restoring Mr. Jones to as near his natural condition as possible ; and we were glad to learn on making enquiries last night, that though enduring great pain. he was progressing as favorably as could be hoped under the circumstances. We trust it will not be very long before we see him about again as hearty as ever, as, independent of the suffering he must be put to, and which we feel sure his many friends will so heartily regret, he can be very badly spared during the present busy season. — Timaru Herald. We were lately informed by cablegram that the celebrated Madame Rachel, who professed to render smooth all the furrows caused by old age and care, to remove all obnoxious facial excrescences and hollows and make the ugly beautiful, has filled up the cup of her iniquity as follows:—She was charged with having obtained by fradulent pretences jewellery of the value of 1200 from a Mrs. Pearce. The lady, upon being examined, said the defendant told her that she would be disfigured for life unless the cure of " finishing" was completed ; and under this impres-ion she parted with her property as a security for the sum she was to pay. Madame Rachel has to undergo five years' penal servitude. The Native Minister, during an interview with some settlers in the Waikato district last week, promised that the mystery of the Native Department would be removed, and that for the future no officers of the Native Department would be allowed to traffic in Native lands for themselves or their friends, under pain of instant dismissal. At St. Paul's on Monday last the Ven. Archdeacon Edwards made afeelingreference to the cabled intelligence of the Bishop of Lichfield. " When the history of the Church in New Zealand comes to be written," said the Archdeacon, " the most prominent figure in the group of its worthies will be that of George Augustus Selwyn. Called to be Idshop of an English see—which he at first refused, unwilling to .sever his connection with New Zealand, and which lie only consented to occupy when urged to do so oy the Queen herself—wj find in him the same unwearied efforts to do his Father's work. The last episcopal act of his recorded in the English papers was the holding of a confirmation in a gaol—when we read that the prisoners were so affected by his words that many of them so I ibed aloud. He was indeed a noble man, and has left us all an example of manliness, dauntless courage, untiring energy, through devotion to Ins Master's word." The funeral hymn. " When our heads are bowed with woe," was sung by the congregation, and the organist played the "Dead March " at each service.— Star.