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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 616, 24 April 1878, Page 2

A memo, from the Telegraph Department says :—From and after this date 10 o'clock -tati-ms ■will, <>n Saturday eveuinirs, close at the u-.ual hour, and remain open till 10 p.m. We are i_dad to give the following item of intelligence a place in our columns, because wo arc of opinion that true nohili -y should always receive every possible recogui ion : - On 'he 10th January last year the mail coach up-et iu theMaerewhenua River. Amongst the passengers were a woman and chili 1, woo wi-re on the verue of drowning when gallantly re-cued by Mr. Alfred Dick. F<>r this ;:et iiie l.oval Humane Society's medal has been .-..warded that gentleman. Mr. Dirk is oi nairer of Mr. Sutton's station at Oma

At lia'f-p-ist 11 oVock t-i-'lay. Miss Gertrude Hardy, eldest daughter of Mr. John :Lu-il\- of this town, was marri d at !.uke''s Church to Mr. J. S. Dai/ell, of Ifakateramea. Miss Hardy, Miss Nellie Hardy, Miss Ethel Hardy, and Miss (iifford, were bridesmaids, and Mr. T. H. Brown aetcd aj;roomsnian. There were upwards of 4011 witnesses of the interesting ceremony, the majority of whom were friends of the hride ami. bridegroom. The R;v. A. Gilford officiated, and the musical portion of the service was supplied by the church choir, who sang the 12'ith Psalm. After the ceremony, the wedding parly adjourned to the residence of the bride's, father. Mr. J. G. Finch, the organist of the church, played Meudelsshon's " Wedding March," which formed an appropriate conclusion to the proceedings. What can have brought it about ? While wrimig some telegrams this morning we observed that our pen did not run through the paper, and that the forms were better printed than those we had used for years. We, in our astonishment, scanned the slip from top to bottom, curious to find some clue to the extraordinary phenomenon upon which we were feasting our eyes. Our writing looked absolutely chaste, and cou'd have been deciphered by any person to whom had been imparted a decent education, . whereas we have heretofore earned unen- ; viable notoriety for fantastic strokes and abstruse ca : igraphy from officials of the 1 I'eiegraph Department and the members of our composing staff. The delightful im- ; provement in our penmanship was due to the superfine quality of the i'aper, as corauared with that which was used for the old ; forms. Immensely elated with the result of our efforts ou the new forms, we scarcely deigned to look below our own signature, which we felt was a triumph of the ealigraphic art. of which we might justly feel proud. As far as ever from a solution of the mystery, we, in despair, bunded our telegrams to our junior clerk, remarkuisi that ti-.ere were three. We sh.tll never forgit the appearance of the young man's face. lor the fir«t time he doubted our veracity, and, quietly gauging the forms between his . finger and thumb, he looked a contradiction, a:id leit our room. Having eluded our gaze by iuterposing an inch wall between us, he halted as though riveted to the floor. He had slyly counted the lorms, and found that there were indeed only three. While standing in amaz.-meut, our improved signature caught his eye, and served to increase hi* dilemma. We heard him muttering. '• Whose name is that ? " This remark was followed by a gentle tap and a " Come in :" and we quickly discovered that our junior ; clerk was sharing onr unhappiness. " If the telegraphist should ask me whose signature this is, sir, what shall I say ?"' inqu'red : In. We hade him tell the truth ; to which h ; replied that that was just what In: j wanted to ascertain ; and o,i looking to -.-irUfy ourselves that we hid not att-ehed ! cue a.goatury of the wrong \\\ mi.-er or ;. i '.'.imeroiii family—tin: of iii->vu. for iu- ! -v.i'ice—wo observed tha 1 - the t'":".:i bo--- no j i-:.pri it. Nosmatlcapital line, '-~-'i:- \V.i!. r- ' i '-> and Sons," or " Sir Joseph C-ui-t-u an i \ ons. printers." was there to indi.-.ite where I tile form hailed from, and the tnuh tii-n lawned upon our minds. The forms had been pri-ited at the New Zealand (ioverisI meut Printing Office, which, we are told, i w-'.s established to do such work, provide 1 ' a i opportunity was not i-lfonl d or eii';aneii:g I iii ■■■ pres ige of the Colony by best ■■■■v.ir: a ■ rot-iiui! of our printing on a real live Knight. ■ I has been the opinion of the Press of the ; Colony since the time when the foreign im- ! print of Sir Waterloo and Sous—we do n it remember the Christian name, and may we never be reminded of it through the medium of a telegrain form—first appeared noon telegram forms, that the work should have been done iu the Colony, and that, if it was impossible, through pressure of work, f r the Government Printing Office to do it. it s lould be given either hy tender, or at a pi-ice fixed by the Government Printer, to private printim; office : . We suppose that w« are indebted to til : present Ministry for this small, though most desirable reform ; for we already know the evils of the system to which the Atkinson Government seemed, to be wedded of importing what we require. and ignoring the business people of the Colony. A billiard ma! ch took place last evening at the Royal Hotel Billiard Saloon between Jas. Hill, one of the lessees of the saloon, and a well known amateur of this town. The match, syhieh was for L 5 a side, 500 up, was won by HiU by 91 points, he making the only break worth mentioning, viz., 3S, which included 11 spot strokes. Some good play, however, was exhibted on both sides. There were no cases down for hearing at the Resident s£sgistrate's Court this morning. A very satisfactory rehearsal of the Philharmonic Society took place last evening at the Masonic Hall. The vocalists are improving fast, and will shortly bs competent to take their parts at a concert. To Mr. Kine.h is due this desirable result. As conductor, he is not only indefatigable, but able, and enteFS into his work with so much earnestness as to impart the same indispeuable quality to the majority of-the Society's members. There will for a certainty be some difficulty experienced in commencing a band in connection with the Society, without: whieh the works of the great masters cannot be correctly and fully interpreted; but, onee oyer the first few months, it would increase in numbers and efficiency. We were in error yesterday in stating that the Ngapara trains do not stop at the Waiareka Junction. It is the Moeraki train that .does not stop at that place, making a short stoppage at the township of Deborah instead: ! The managers of the Presbyterian Church I at Otepopo advertise for a precentor for the church, the salary offered being L3O per annum. It will be seen by a reference to outadvertising columns thai Bun Allah, a conjuror and ventriloquist, will give one of his entertainments at the Masonic Hall tomorrow evening, and w.U distribute a number of presents. The first anniversary of the Primitive | Methodist Okureh, -JV.aim.-ite, wascekbr.it d ] on the 22nd inst., by a soiree and puiii c i meeting, which vas held in tje Uudjxjiow's j

Hall. About three hundred persons partook of the tea which was provided by several ladies connected with the Church. Afterwards a meeting was held, presided over by Mr. James Bruce. The meeting was adj. dressed by the Rev. Messrs Tihsley, ofi Christchurch, J. Sharp, of Tiniaru, G. Lindsay, of Waimate, and T. Fee, of Waimate. The Rev. Mr. Puddicorribe read the report of the Church Committee for the past year. The report was a favorable one, and it stated that the trusted contemplated b'nildhur'a ii"w church on their section in a short time. The proceeds of the tea meeting, together with the amount collected, realised nearly T.,'o, which sum will be applied to the building fund —Ti-uaru Her:ild. It was reported in town this afternoon that Color-Sergeant King, of the Oamam l-iiik-s, had President's Cup at.the a mial tiring of the Canterbury Julie Association. As the Pi-ess Agency has not sent u-i any information on the matter, we cant.ot saj' whether or no 1 -, the report is correct. The following interesting letter, headed " Maori Pronunciation," apnears in Duiiedin livening tstar. A■■■ will be seen, it was written in reply to a letter signed ''P. ltichardson," which appeared in the same journal a few evening's previously :—Sir, —On looking over a file of your paper to day, T. saw a letter from F. Richardson about the proper pronounciation of the word " () onani," as the place is now designated. The word is a corruption of the Maori compound word oha-maru (weary-shelter, or shelter for the weari.d), Oamam "being one of the stopping phues used by the Natives formerly in their long cane coastal voyages to and from the Jsortli. The '•h" in ' oha," has been dropped, and the word is now by the Maoripronounced thus—"O-amaru," the "(>" being pronounced full and open, as an independent syllable, as "o" in " open," and the first "a" accented and pronounced broad as in the word "father."—l am, &c, Maori. Dunedin, April 22. Are the Turkish man and wife bound to live on chained together? Not at all ; if it is the husband's wish, he has only to say, " Get away with thee ; I banish thee from my house/' and the poor thing must take herself off there ami then, and never darken his doors again. That is the Turkish law of divorce, and, be it observed, it is not reciprocal.