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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 702, 17 June 1878, Page 2

At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, before T. YV. Parker, Esq., K.M. William Campbell, for being drunk and disorderly oathegaoi premises, was fined ss. or 24 hour*' imprisonment; and William Crennan, for the sain.; offence, against whom one previous eonvictim had Ijeen recorded, was lined 20s. or five days' imprisonment.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Harbor hoard will be held in the Boardroom on Friday next, at half-past 10 a.m.

The fortnightly meeting of the Commercial Building Society, for the receipt of subscriptions and repayments, will take pir.ee at Mr. Ait'ieu's office obis evening, from 7 to 0 p.m. Tiic monthly meeting of the Oamaru Hospital Committee is announced to talte place at Mr. Church's office to-morrow evenhni.

Those gentlemen who take an interest in ;:tcepleehasiiig will observe elsewhere (in our advertising column'-) tin*: they are invited to attend a meeting of the Oamaru club on Friday evening lir=t, at the Empire Hotel.

The ciiilitren'.s sorviee, held in he Now Tc-ei-stiv-.-t Mall la-t evening, nntwii.iiff't-'nd- •!•_» the bad weatil''-. was Weil .-tteude.L rl-e. iiai; b..-ii.-.' .::-:nf..rt■:!•!>- iilled. Messrs. J'-u.-,t. Mirams. and Moore suecessi\-ely .-eidrpsse. l . the '.•hi'dren, enforcing Oospel trad:-, -.vit!a v'i"'y if illustrations, some of which weiv <:.•.'.'• di-gly v,.-!l suited to *' j y<mv-_' mind. Tiie : m/iiu by tlie <;!•,<•.•-, wiiioh 11 i-uo-eil a iiroiuiii'jiiU phiee in tiu-.- ervii;e. wrs v..y 1/00,:. a-.il Vl . ;< li.-ten-. ito through'-ir with mai'Ued :■:'.• ion. A f. > v .!;.>> r.u; an •'•'i l -^i.r,t' - «'?s h.-i-lby tlie body of a horse, \;.iue l.Mi, tiie uropi-. ly ■if '\r. . wiiii;h had di -.■•.[ ■■■■"A c'ln-'es Ujii.r,!!W>j. Mr. L"\-e:;< undo a /:fi.--f-:n->//- m eaused !.iy a S"> :ii so-;. ; :i of v.'o:-iu '.'la!: ban in mai.y i : e oj.pi. - iy e:d.::i ;;,•■■■:. h :he in''-'"-' ii. ■< l'.a- .?";si";- iMtjnmtii.-iii..-.-, f tlir. .ito-.'.i So "v-jii-'in wiih v.-:. —Tiuiu!' l.ead.r. From hite-i ;t.iv:c>': r i vo h-.irn tli.it t'e'('.■:;.'.:'!•!iiiry r:'iel-.t.-t"r.i h.".ve tho-oht V-.-tte" of their inl.:iit!o;; r,;" s.iudir.g a eh:dlei)'.:'o i< the Australian Eleven now in J'.iigi.v.n'. Coasumers of better am warned that at "i-esont a large quantity of inferior an 1 unwholesome butter is being offered for sale. It is printed in the form of fresh butter, and some of it has lately been oii'ered for sale in Dunedin. Whether it is the result, of the. recent discovery in America that butter can be made from .suet or an extract of Thames mud, we are unable to say, but one thir.g is certain, it is not the product of Dhe colonial dairy. A sample of it. forw .rded .to a ennpetcnt analyst at Wellington, has been proue.uuced to be Coinpased chiefly of inferior lard and '"other stun,'' If the Adulteration of F-.od Aet is of any value, steps should be tahi.-u to prevent tha public being victimised by an article which is not only unpalatable but unwholesome.

The Mauris of the Sounds, on the West Coast of Ota'.'O, to!<l Sir George Grey on hi>; recent visit to .that locality, tha; live imas are to be found in the ranges of tlie WestCoast, and that they hail seen sonic just before meeting him.

That this Colony will, in a f-2w year.-, be intersected by a net-work i>i railways, seem extremely probai.de. Amongst the railway schemes at present being a 1 vnc.ited, and which will sh.-r;!y lie eariied into effect, tli-. j following arc too n.ost pi-omin-mt :—Gore and Klbo"-, Whiton ami Nightcap, boston mid Camion, and '1 names and VY'aik.ic , X iiv that the District tlailways - 1 ct oll'cis 'le.l.ties for the construction 'if railways chat ai-e likelj' to be remunerative, there is .o ie:is.Ti why {lie lands of the Colony should '.. Nt lie opened up from Xortii to South .'u:il •.r.-i t" west.

The Hon. if..here. Campbell h-.y heei

iiikioe' .1 prominent part in .-idvoearing a line or railway from Foxtmi to S.indon, i;: : he Weiiiiiuton Provincial District-, j.lr. : 'itnpbell is a land owner in the district, J having a Estate. T!;e following resume of Mr. Campbell's speech at a meeting held at Samion for the ;;urpose ■./ ventilating the <ou.-lion, is copied from tin; iiangitikei Advocate : '"Tiu: Hon. Kobert Campbe'k on rising, said ho was very glad to see so many present in spite of th•_■ ii;cli:ni..n'; state of the Treather, and .he regarded it as a token of the ixreat interest manifested In - the settlers of * audon and Carnarvon in connection with I this nio.-fc important subject of a railway. | He, with other gentlemen, had arranged to I make a railway thirty-three and a-haif I n.iles in length at Oamaru. They had not : the convenience of timber that we have in | the Sandon district. This was only tile | second vi.-it In had made to his proporry. He intended to call for sleepers and post- - • for the railway (".own South, and he wonlu take care to advertise in our local papers, in

order that the district might have every opportunity in competing with other places. It; was a well-known fact that the Middle Island is not in a position to compete ■with the Xorth in the supply of timber for railway purposes. The groat bulk of the sh.epers for the New Zealand Railway had been supplied from the Manawatu district; and tli'; timber still remaining would amply supply tde requirements of the Government for many years to come. His friends in Canterbury and Otago were under the impression that they had a pre-emptive right to supply the province of Wellington with cereals ; but ho should tell them on his return that the Manawatu district was equal, if not superior, to any part of the .South Island. It h;.id been estimated by the Hon. W. Fox and others that this line could be made at a cost of L'25,(J00 ; 'but, to be on' the safe side, he (the speaker) would put it down at L3!),!;00. He was convinced that this sum could be raised without difiiI culty V,y the issue of (> per cent, debentures ! on the London Exchange. Having explained the working of the Hailway Act. he v,vi*.t on to show that iron at the present was never lower in price, and it could be bought ft L 3 per ton below the cost of production, and landed in Fox ton at LS per ton, whilst sleepers could be bought in -UsKi/iyatu, at Is. fjd. jo 2s. each. With those advantages in our,favor, were the sotth-rs, lie wished to prepared to guarantee this 4 per cent, ill accordance with the I'aihv.iy .k>int-Stoi;k Company Act. lb; thought :'; , hhuiild be. lie said hj« would be happy to answer any questions which might be put to him. He wished that every valley in Xew Zealand had a railway, as the hene.its w;;rc so patent to him that lie thought no one should objecto contribute his quota to so desirable an end, —(Great applause.)"

The following theatrical news may provo interesting to our readers, as a immlur < f those wlkwo names are meiiliofcd arc w.;ll known in Oamai'u :—Tho He v. Charles (.'lark has heeu most successful since hi* n tuyo to Syilivy. The olutinpioti skatoi- >: r. Ta\u.rj ami liis wife arc yivi=:;.{ in skating i" St. Kild.i. Mrs. >i.t l<ujs was to -liCv.-c. <1 Lydia Howard.'-: JiuricS'iii".Co!nna:iy at tho Theatre K >ya. 1, t'-ydr.ey. ' : is-< ilor.aroc ami ]\liss Navaro ar<i travel- j Mo«r overland in company with \lr. Fin;c:i:e ( :'e til' the f-iiinoiiSi.u Uperti, Uoiiiijany. ''i - !liti-ix-li is <U.i:ijr well in Ailoiiiitl-. ! 'he !! -eey l]n-li.-h Opera Coniuany. now in ; io'o i:■!• ■}!. are nhimt to mnke a 'i'oiir l iiroli :: N» Z. -ilar.il, tnmiiwii'ti',' at 'Uino'lio. Mr. :• -Uvni i< t-'avviHng Wivwa 'Waugahu; a-ul Y;Vsi: ,;t a:,-l |ici:itoiiiiu;{ at tlo vv "ions l.iw u i ■ ;-.i r■);iL'jj This ia th- Tiroes' opinion of rho ; huicdin ': r,in-r R<jr;;M :—" h'ei'crrii':: to tilt; tltni-x.-.rixuss ill With the Ann n-.-r iiti:. :::i<L tho pro.=<:t~ (.•; !i: of Uit.vo v.h" puivlnuuit her, >•. v; nu;y r...\v' .-suluiir., to v. : .•(. purpose was ilic oiii '1 :• ni o: tiu l several .•'■>!limns of : : :r--litwu that .c-i »n .• .-ui-J -V i- the Herald' 'tr '•vary V -1 ihc: £iihj._e:. he .vs.- «»cii if iio hail beeu well .... t . a " aoi.ajoiK' who knew,'' lie would '••: v .■ l'i e;i l.i"i to unj'ut XyX-itiuus, ttU'l to di.-phisiry a y:eat deal of ie'wvau/e wrappal up iu vorhiay.-. if there

is a newspaper p.-'-.cKeu more tviitompLihlc than another, it is tiu-.-t of parading names with inuu.jii.liit.ri ;,i,fa;:hei!, ivhie'i is .tantamount to covert attacks upon the reputatiuiis of the piirtios mentioned. The ITcraal h.i.-;, v.'e regr-jt to say, committed itself in this respect. <>iic; of its article? bristled with the names of unfortunates whose only fault was that they we. e onnected, ona way or another, with the ai<.'.<: of the Ann Cambies. J»u.-!!!.-o.; men of this town ivjo p..i\aied in print, x~<:';tid -.nit hi. fa-i, to suit the; moii.'iil t:; 3 tu <>i a newspaper thai professc to 1.0 a -juj-ipl- s organ, owo the holder of 100 scales of justice."' Tins ipartieidariy ht>l. Thit it is audersi- -od that the Herald makes no professions of trath-£uli}i.-ES : indeed we have every reason, to believe thai, it is anxious to i;::p ami within its readers a iovo for iieaon. The face is, its elder brother, the Outgo "Daily Times, tells tiie truth, and there is not room for two morning papers in Duuedni that, do that. A friend of oui's says tli-:- it .v u;d he a good idea—at all events a novel one—to drop the Herald and use the piano for printing •- yellowback;:."

The Southland Times has been informed that at the preliminary meeting of the (.Jure JOlbow Railway Company, Driver stated that 17>».tK.il) acres of land in Southland were likely to be disposed of to a London < innpany, to he after'.v;uds subdivided and soiii in small farms. There is every reason io suppose that tl.is is part of the lrait,:-: of .Mr. Larnaelfs visit to i'Jnjrland, and that the properties comprise tlie freeholds of Messrs. Clarke, JJell, and Larnach and Dii'.'er. " Very satisfactory fruits, too. If .vr. La-roath succeeds in aceomplishing no other object than the cutting up and selling in sni.di blocks of 17l),(;00 acres of good agrietiltural land, lie T.-il! not have visited Great 13iiia;n