The Evening Mail. MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1878.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 656, 10 June 1878, Page 2

The Evening Mail. MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1878.

It will be observed by our sp< eial cablegrams that the Australian Kleveii have scored another victory, beating IS of Eiland, a small town in Yorkshire, by IS runs. Ti.e Australian cricketers wile to coiii.nsnce a match agaiftst a Katley eighteen to-day, ami next Monday one of the most important matches on the programme will be commenced, that against the Gentlemen i'kyers of England. A disturbance took place last night, at about!) o'.-lock, at Costelh/s boar.'.iug-house, Thames-strict. Two men named OT'.ricn ; and (/Council wore settling son.e little dif- | fer.-iices by a resort to n-L:oui:s. whuti

[ OBrien drew a knife, and str.bbed his antagonist in the back of the n.-cL The wound indicted, however, does not tc-i:. J -o have been of a wry serious nature, for OVonnell was able to appear in Court this morning. when OT.rien was brought up and r.-mau.L-d until Thursday on a charge of citing and wounding «/Council. His Worship the Mayor has kindly sliov-ii as an o'iicial telegram explaining that the Gazette notice regarding tiie Municipal endowment was sent in to the Government printer to,. late to appear iu the last« Jazette, and stating that it will be published in the next issue of t'.ie Gazette. A meeting of the Oamarit Football Club was held on Saturday evening, at the Boyal Hotel, for the purpose of electing a deputy captain, and also secretary and treasurer. in the places of Messrs. K. Booth and J. E Blackliurae. After some general business had been transacted, Mr, William Ferens was elected to the office of deputy captain, and Mr. C. W. Cooke to those of secretary j and treasurer. After passing a vote of thanks to Mr. Blackburne for his past services, the meeting terminated with the usual vote of thauks to the Chairmau. Those ratepayers who have not yet paid their rates would do well to pay up before the 15th instant, otherwise they will be excluded from the Citizens' 8011.

It will be seen by an advertisement in another column that Miss Filler's School of Cookery will be opened at the Masonic Hall, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 2 till 4, and 7 till 9 o'clock. We are gratified to be able to inform the public that a free lesson will be given to-morrow evenin tr, to which all who take an interest in the work in which Miss Fidltr is engaged are invited. Through a misunderstanding, we announced on Saturday last that Miss Fidltr would remain in Oamaru only a fortnight It i 3 that lady's intention to remain hera for a month. Our Livingstone correspondent writes as follows, dated June S -.—The rains here for fully four days were incessant, commencing ou .Sunday night, 2nd i:<sr., and there is now a considerable quaui ity of s::w in the Maeretthenua Pass. T,:-i M.'ere v."hernia river is very much swollen, and ins been f.,r some .lays scarcely f.mlable at any point, effectually cutting off for tiie time communication between here and Duntroon. Old residents have scarcely ever seen so heavy a fail of rain before. It was, however, much needed, aud diggers ar.<! tillers alike hail its timely advent. The roads-, by the way, would have been impassable had it u»t been for the improvement effected by the Cotu-ty Council during the last three months. The most dangerous part of the road from Duiitroon is now being fenced, which will prove a great boon to travellers by night, since it is in immediate proximity to the road, and consists of a perpendicular precipice some 40 feet in depth. The late downfall of rain has, however, opened for the Council new fields of operation, aud the road for some one and a half miles' from the township has much need of their attention. We learn from the Dunedin Age that Mr. Bracken, the well-known proprietor and editor of the Saturday Advertiser and au:h'-r of " Flowers of the Free Lands," will be a ca didale for the seat in Parliament : vacated by Mr. Larnach. Mr. Bracken would make a good representative. Not only has ho the energy and ability, but from what we know of him he possesses the desire to be uieful to the Colony.

The adjourned meeting o£ the Committee of the North Ota-> Horticultural Society will be held this evening at eight o'clock at Albion House. Wellington telegrams in the Christchurch Press state that at the last meeting of the Cabinet it was decided to call Parliament toother in the last week of July, and that the Government are going to deal with the Asrent-Ceneral's Department in pursuance of the retrenchment instructions of the late (;ov,-rument. They have given specific orders to Sir Julius Vogel as to what officers are to he discharged and what savings are to be effected. The reductions ordered by "OTe Ministry include a saving of L2OOO in salaries and 1.3000 in other directions. The cost of the department in future is not to exceed L4OOO per annum.

Mr. Tennyson received the very large sum of 300 guineas for his ballad on "The Uevenge" in the Nineteenth Century. This scale of remuneration is quite in keeping with that which Mr. Tennyson is now accusI umiecl to receive from his publishers.

The following is an extract from an able article which appears in last Saturday's Oraijo Daily Time 3, on the legal charges in the !ato : ; cate prosecution :—" Taking tlie case of one of the four counsels, Mr. Macassev—whose patriotism no one can doubt, for has lie not shown it by ineffectual desires to sacrifice himself on the altar of his country by devoting himself to the services of the public in Parliament, an ambition which, u:ifortunately lias not been fostered by the people of Otago ?—taking him as an illustration, we find he pocketed three hundred and twenty-two pounds ten, as a fee for appearing in Court alone, to say nothing of the retaining fee, oonsnltation f.>cs. an 1 so on, while the pleadings were all .-•••tt-ed for him, the evidence collected and | (jlac.d before his eyes in a printed form, and he had nothing whatever to do but apuear in '. ourt ; when on the uther bund we observe that Mr. I!ecs, who has special knowledge of the transaction" cf tiie native land rings, wa» engaged in tit-- Oamaru libel esse i'tvm the beginning, collecting evidence in conjunction with the defendant's own solicitor, that he was not assistud by ti.rtJ other counsel, but conducted thcea.c himself, that he travelled twice as f.r as Mr. Mavns-sey, and left for the ifnic a bushier mu.-h more

extensive and important, Y/'u m.!)- l;".r!y say, then, his fee of five luiiu 1 .!-':-.! atd forty pounds compares wry Favourably with time ■•' one of the lour eou - .;>el in the \\ akaMaori ca-e, and that one of a gc-utlo'.nen of such iiii:i::;=i'''- - hab!'3 character nr.d self-

s-.crin'eiiig i-vtii-ii;i;. as Mr. M.cnssey. | With reference i<> 'he defendant having put the country to sj!;-ii expense in getting <lown a lawyer with a diic-i.-i.il knowledge from Napier, it is mockery to speak ' f patriotism here. The country for the time was against .Mr. Jones, ami was seeking with all its power, and in a .spirit of revenge to put him in gaol ami vnin him fcr doing what he thought to 1)0 his duty. If he devoted one moment's thought t> the interests of the public Treasury, cither before or after the trial, he must have been of a very angelic nature. He was advised that his expenses were secured by the guarantee of his friends if he Jost the ease, and he was iustruc:ed by the guarantors lu Kparo no expense in defending himself against tile persecution of i.'nvernment, and we can personally testify that I b -fore Mr. Bees agreed to come down his f. • was arranged -with him ant its amount, and he has not charged more than he would have been entitled to exact from the guarantors of the defense fund had he bc-eu defeated.

People are beginning to gue3s Svho will succeed Lord Normanby as Governor. The general belief is that about next November Lord Normanby will go to Now South Wales to take the place of Sir Hercules Uobinson, who will probably go to Victoria. Sir George Jjon'ai's chances of an Indian Governorship and a peerage seem very small. The successor of Lord .Normanby will probably be Sir Arthur Gordon, of Fiji, or Sir Arthur Kennedy, of Queensland. Sir Arthur Gordon is a conceited, irascible man, who will quarrel with everyone if he coir.es here, and would certainly be most unpopular when contrasted with our present excellent Governor. Sir Arthur Kennedy has had a very long experience as Governor in various parts oi the -world. —Exchange. The North British an.l Mercantile Insurance company's last annual statement is a splendid showing. Tluy are the iigurcs of one of the oldest Briti-'h fire insurance corporations, and the xTilit of its steady and successful accumulation during the nineteen'h. century. It has a called-in and i.v.u-up capital of 1,."53,6."'J dollars, and a reserve for all lire labilities, including reinsurance, of 2,0! ; ; doiiars, v.'itu a lKu lire surplus of dinars, making its cash and invested assets, for fire business, 3,;"iUo,lSfi dollars Of these assets it has in our state departments ami in the hands of trustees in New York, 1,7G7,27i> dollars. The North British .t.k! -Mercantile h.is to be one of the most popular lire insurance companies in the [ T -:ded Sf.'tes, being viewed by th.- American people as a model of corporate solidity, safety, aud per-" maneuce. It has ah/ays met its losses, whether snail or great, with a promptitude, fairness, sna liberality which have spread its good jame from man to man throughout the lcn<"h and breadth of the land, and enabled is agents to secure the best line of risks ir every locality iu which it has established a I>raneh. —Insurance Times, N.Y. We clip the following from the New ZcalrJidef: —In tlks Divorce Court yesterday, the-case of "Wodcock v. Woolcock and Waddell came on for hearing, and after evidence had been taken a rule nisi was aianted. The facts of the case are somewaat peculiar, and ir. Woolcock has discovered by this time hat the magic iuitials M.H.R. do not carrj with them, nor do thev possess the mean; of enforcing upon othere, all the virtues under the sun, for/ while he was doing his duty to his con-

stituenfcs in. propounding and " soluting " political problems, an enemy crept into his hearth and home and stole away his -wife. He had scarcely been gone a fortnight when his wife took into partnership a laborer—a " scrubber " Mr., Woolcock designates him —and having divided the proceeds of the petitioner's bussiness, they first disposed of the co-respondent's wife and foiir.children by shipping them off to Scotland, and then' quietly took joint possession qfTMr. Woolcock's fireside. When he returned to Greymouth and entered a somewhat natural protest against the altered state of domestic bliss, he was givm to understand that only death would the twain part, and even a revolver was brought to bear upon his nerves, in

assurance that if the ends were not lawful the means to accomplish them would at least be desperate. The result was that, as the lady preferred the "scrubber" to him, whom she had always spoken highly of as a husband and a gentleman, and as she had taken care to provide the necessary wherewithal to fly -vith her adopted husband, Mr. Woolcock feh himself bound to submit to

this dictation The last that was heard of the happy coiple was that they had passed themselves oif as man and wife in Sleepy Hollow, where, according to evidence, the co-respondeir, had deemed it wise for some reason or othsr to disguise his appearance by dying his hair and whiskers. From thence all trace 3 of me anxious pair have been lost, and so completely, that it was found impossible to sjrve a citation upon the corespondent, -vho probably is not even now aware of tilt action taken by the injured husband.