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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 615, 23 April 1878, Page 2

We would remind our readers thai the ,utw. i-.i ■-iin Francisco mail closes here at in a.m. to-morrow. A n-turn of the gold enured for -nortation from the Colony ciurmg; the marter ended 31st March last is pushed In a Gaz-ttc just to hand. From this we errn that instead of the yield of gold falling U tfctr- has been a very decided increase rlurma the March quarter or this year as compared with toe same period of the previous vev Tlie value of the precious metal iirteddnrins the three months ended o, -he 31st March, 1878, was 1-411,4*4, a. period of 1577, showing an increase oi ISI 317 The greatest increase has taken JlarV on the West Coast, the value of the -old exported during the quarter of this rear amounting to ove. LIOO,OOO more than durin« the same quarter of last year. Otagc and .Auckland also show a very lar««■ in-cr-ase. while there has- been a terrible fall i„„ off in the amount of gold prouueed U Xclson. The tot,l value of the gold ex , ortel from the Colony since the 1«,„ Apia 1537, is 1.34.179,875. •\t the Resident Magistrate's Court this Morniii", James Stafford fined ss. t"i ha viiia been dnu.k and disorderly m Thames-street on Saturday evening. In order to save a section of the travel li.,- public trouble and time, *o remmc. them that the Ngapara trains f° *>*•»'" *f.x -• the Wai«r..l:a .Tunct'.oi;.. that staLon i,ein« rii«fai-(U-cl since the erection of a plat-fo-i-rat Ucl.or.-.h, in oomieaiou with wine. t i,' the ultimate intent/on or the <-vcrn „ it »t to construct a station and stock-yard, for the couveiiivnce "* settlem. \ robberv of somewhat impudent nature was perpetratr-l yestesday at the house o Mr GronvaV, Reed-street. A jiinu namerl George W-dls. who resides in the iiouse, -ave to the police that a pockethook containing L 52 had been stolen out ol his aox. So far as is known, only three persons entered the room where the box was placed in which the money was said to have been deposited : and the box, it appears, was left unlocked. Letters of acting appointment have been received with reference to the following Volunteer officers .-—Lieut. Headland ami Sub-Lieut. Morris, Oamaru Hides ; SubLieut. Young. Hampden. Hided. The St. Paul's Young Men's .-Usooiatior held their usual weekly meeting at theii rooms List night, there being present 41: members and several ladies. The chair was occupied by Mr. R. II- M'Pherson, Vice President. After the general business, i number of new members were proposed aut balloted for, and at tlie conclusion of routine business tiie Chairman called upon Mr. Young to read the latest issue of the Youuj Men's" Magazine, which was composed o well-written articles and a number of inter estiug letter=, several of which dealt witt local "subjects. The contents of the maga ziue were freely criticised. After the meet iua closed, the Committee met and carefulli revised and made several alt-rations in th( rules, which were ordered to be printed am reads' for distribution on next Mondai evening. The local kieki-ts will be re-joiofd to hoai thaVthe ikvr footbaU match, of the seasoi will be id-ive-l <>u Saturday, 'i h< atiiuial mcyt::v_' or the Club will, we believe be held on Thni-'day evening. We h:iv< reason to r-xp'eot tivit the number -f foreigv matches to 'be p'.ay-d this year will be ii excess of thi'SJ or previous years: an 1, therefore, const-nit anil's'-eady practice i>nl\ will enable tlie Oamaru Club to hold its ova in the football field. Mr. J. Haekworth lias, been appointee' Receiver of the Land Revenue for Ota.go, ir the mom of Mr. H. Livingston, who ha= ceased to act. A meeting of Iho Committee of ille Phil harmonic Society will be held on Friday evening, at half-past 7 o'clock, at Mr Haroy's oliices, for the purpose of adopting inks and transacting other business. Tlie voters' rolls for the several riding! within the County will be open for inspec tion at the County Chambers, Oamaru. ui to the 15th day of May, and a copy of t.h Rolls can be seen until rhe above date, at 1:h----following places :—Ohau Riding, at .Mr Middieton's Residence, Beninore Station Otematakau Riding, at Mr. MacPhcrson' Stove, O.marauia : Otekaike Riding, at Mr Campbell's Woolshed, Otekaike ; Awamoki RidiiiL'. at Mrs. Mary Pricker's Residence Awamoko ; Papakaio Riding, at Pukeur Schoolhouse ; Waiareka Riding, at Cavi Valley Schoolhouse : Kakanui Riding, a Totara Station (office) ; Otepopo Riding, a the Post Office Herbert ; Mocraki Riding at the Post Oiiico, Hampden. The following new regulation for tin management of railways will come into forci on the Ist May :—" When a consignor send: to the same consignee several packages o different classes, A, B, C, D, E, which ma\ each be below the minimum quantity o •2cwfc., the whole may be sent as one con signment, carried as Class A." Quite a flutter has been produced in th< Railway Department (says a Dunedin paper in consequence of the mysterious disappearance, one day last week, of tlie Miltoi packet, containing 1.39. We may state that, in accordance -with the custom of the ele partment, the cash returns, &c, of eacl country station are on the following morning forwarded by the first train to the heac office at Dunedin. This was done on the occasion referred to, but on arriving al the Dunedin station it was found that the Milton packet was missing. Every enquiry was made, and the matter was placed in the hands of the Detective Police, but with what result we have not ascertained, as the police has vouchsafed us no information pu the subject. The Glasgow- Herald relates some serious circumstances connected with the accidental death by drowning of a.man named-Angus Robertson, a native of Inverary. It says : "Robertson's dog had apparently tried tc rescue him from the water, and failing in this, it get up a loud howling until the attention of a policeman was directed to the spot, and the body found. It may be interesting to psychologists to learn that there was a singular circumstance in connection with Robertson's death. His wife at Stow felt uneasy that he did not return as expected, but vent to bed before midnight, and fell asleep. A little past 12 she was startled by, as she thought, an imploring cry twice"repeated, at the winelow, ' Mary, Mary/ She instantly rose and ran down stairs' and out to the street, but, of course, found no one. She felt in a state of great alarm, and took the first train to Galashiels (there had been no communication from there ibout the drowning), assured in her own mind that something dreadful had happened, and only to discover that ; her worst fearswer» more than realised."

The members of the Philharmonic Society will meet for rehearsal this evening. Mails for Australia close, at the Bluff at 11 a.m. to-morrow. Skobeloff has a curiou3 theory that to attack positions you ought to begin. Jate iii the afternoon. .This makes.it, if you fail, unlikely that your enemy will retort with a counter attack that night, and, on the other hand, you have the whole night to entrench. . , ..,.' • The Bru.ce Herald records the fact that a Bcttler in the Bruce County in filling'up a cen.nis form, under the heading of live stock, entered a« in 1 i£s possession—" 1 torn .•at and 1 parroquet." and under the heading ''produce thereof," GOOlbs. butter yearly. Some sensation was created in town (says the Wellington Port) by the entry of a fine coach and five, driven by S. Prosser, and crowded at every available point with Maoris from Porirua, come in to see the Circus. They cheered lustily as they were driven through the streets in this grand style. The Maoris are intensely interested in the show, but particular!* » the wil , d . }> ea ;? 3 ' aud above all. iu the elephant, which they pronounce " Kapai horse—two tail." A perfect panic have seized the commercial community of Hokitika, and failures are following each other with alarming rapidity. The West Coast Times refers to the latest case of an hotelkeeper Who recently called his creditors together representing debts of L2J-00. It transpired that the debtor had given two mortgages over his property, the proceeds of the latest one having gone'to pay the winners of lucky tickets iu a sweep. The Auckland correspondent of the Lyfcfcelton Times supplies the following : '■' Much hostile feeling is being evinced at the way in which the Education Board are proceeding. The expenses they have incurred are considered enormous. The fob lowin" scale was agreed upon at last meetjn,r : —lnspector. QVuJiivfiu, I.SOO : Secretary, Mr. Rioo, 1.500 ; two assistant Secrctavio'*, at f 2HO each, L ! M)0 ; Auxiliary Clerk, LSO ; rent of offices. Id6o ; two messengers, LG'D ■ Treasurer, L 350; Architect, L 250, with' 21 per cent, for work done, making about L 350 to LrJOO per annmn. To this has to be added cleaning, firewood, &c„ The expenses of this one office are already more than the whole machinery of the Government, when the Education Department formed only one part of the duties performed, " A wager of a somewhat novel nature was decided a few days ago at Papauui (says the Press). Mr. J. Wild, of the Sawyers' Arm's Hotel, backed a man named William Ponliiiighouse for LlO, to erect three chains of post-and-rail fencing within eight working hours. The conditions were—two rails, Oft length, to be pointed, the post to be morticed and sunk 2ft 6in in the ground. Ponning-hous-c worked steadily throughout without making any apparent effort, and comjjleted the work iu a substantial maimer easily within tha time. Mr. Wild thus won his bet. It is said the man could have erected another chain within the time had he pushed himself. The following interesting particulars concerning the South Pacific Islands were afforded by Captain E.anzau to the San Francisco Chronicle : —Captain Eanzau has seen great sufferings on the Kingsmill group, owing to the failure of the cocoa-nut trees to produce the usual crop. He states that when famine exists on this group the newly born children are exposed on the reefs to be carried out at sea by the currents. One oi the most interesting islands soijth of the Krmator is Quiros Island known to the Spaniards as' - Isle de la Cento Hermos.i,' or Island of Handsome People, and to the n 'lives as Olosiga. The chief man in the h-laad is Eli Jennings, an aged American, who when lie first visited the island more ' tha;) :J) years ago found two skeletons bleachiinit hi the sun. They were reclining undei j a palm, and are supposed to be the remains j ol «n old couple starved to death; . It is £ I tradition that idl the natives were stolei: I from the island by Peruvian slavers, and j that the couple whose skeletons were found were too old to be carried off. There arc Lvce slabs resembling tombstones on the island, wi-h peculiar inscriptions which nc one has yet been able to decipher. Olosigr islam! was discovered by the Spanish navi srator Quires in !o'oo, and is named after bin on many of the maps How iu use. It is.; vi-rv small island, about 200 miles N.N.E of {Samoa, and the -society is not cheerful consisting only of the patriarch Jennings aue his family and a few natives imported fron other islands. All the original inhabitant either perished or were carried into slavery. Captain Kanzau married one of old Jennings daughters. ■" I try to preach the milk of the Word,' replied a city clergyman to a parishionei who remonstrated that his 3ermons were toi long. "Yes," remarked the other, "on around here what we want is condensed