The Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1878.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 714, 24 July 1878, Page 2

The Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1878.

Can it be true that the Government has paid the bill of costs in the Whitaker-Jones case to the wrong parties ? We have read in almost every paper in the Colony that the amount has been paid by the Treasury ; but, so far as we can learn, those particularly interested have had no practical demonstration of the fact. Where has the money gone t Mr Shrimski will leave for Wellington on Saturday morning, in order to arrive in Wellington in time to attend to his parliamentary duties.

A summoned meeting of the members of the Loyal Alfred Lodge, LO.O. F., will be held this everiingat 8 p.m. Business—Consideration of Lo«tge room.

The half-yearly general meeting of INo. 1 Company, 0.E.V., will be held in the Volunteer Hall on. Friday evening next.

The horses Stoekmap, Ivanhoe, Pakeha, and Jack, arrived from Canterbury by this morning's train. They will run at tomorrow's Steeplechases, and seem to be m good trim for their work.

The members of the Oamaru Artillery will be glad to learn that their new full dress uniforms have arrived, Messrs. Hobson and Sons, Military tailors, of London, are the makers. They are fashioned similarly to the uniforms of the Royal Artillery ; those of the officers being most elegant, with solid silver accoutrements.

In the Waimate Star of July 19, the followinjf Bentence appeared : —" It is with considerable regret that we have to announce the suspension of the issue of this paper for a week or two." We haj-fi heard of Yankee notions in journalism and otb*r things, but what title would lie applicable to this journalistic freak ? There are 800 railway trucks h-ing constructed in the colony. As it is considered that these will be insufficient for next season, and a3 local firms cannot undertake the manufacture of more, others have been ordered from Home.

The vagaries of some of our paragraphs aro Hiost amusing. They go the round of the Colony, and frequently return to the place from whenca they started ; but in an altered form. The garb in srh/eh they are dressed when they leavo our qohtmhs is gradually changed, until at last they arcscarcely recognisable by their father. V e ar* not complaining of the cn;luct of unpretentious newspapers in copying our ppragraphs without a word of acknowledgment. : Tbey are to lie commended for their jndgi ment; and we <can well understand that the | scissors and paste men of some «t tijem can- ! not screw np their courage to acknowledge i that about the only readable matter they lhave in their paper is taken from the Oamarit Mail. It is excusable in such. But what shall we say when the Morning Herald, of Dunedin, cribs matter from our columns a word of acknowledgment. Had it only occurre4 pnee or twice, we w.»nld have taken no notic* of ft j because, just as the clipper was in the act of esa»r|T ii.,t>, a new id.a might have struek him which he hasteucd to commit to paper, f..rCitting all about the new idea- of ot:!e----people. We would excuse cribbing un.ier these circumstance*, for the sake of the public, who were bo treatpd to a new idea m the Herald. Bnt they have, stolen our paragraphs several times within the past two ,;v three weeks, and inserted them word for word. We ore not going to question their good taste'in taking the matter; but, we think that they mfght just mention the source from which they are derived. It is annoying to see ona'a efforts appearing in np-country papers as hawing been originated by the Herald, or to tiud that they fire .-übjectetl to transmogrifications until, often havinsr travelled for several months, they are gradually reduced in size, when they appear in such a reduced and shattered form that we have, before now, clipped them ourselves, for reinsertion, and, with the authority of the papens from which they were taken affixed, sent them in for composition. If the Herald wishes it, we c*n give the subjects and dates of the paragraphs to which we have referred. It is announced that a ball will take plr.ee in the Volunteer Hall to-morrow evening. We are informed that the music will be good, and a» the tickets are at a moderate price, doubtless a number of persons w;!' avail themselves of thi* opportunity to p.-»s» an enjoyable evening. The refreshments will be supplied by Mr. Amos of tlje Sj,am.rock Hotel. |

The Fhilharmonic Society's rehearsal will take place this evening at the usual time and place. The Waiareka Eoad Board advertises for tenders for certain works. Particulars maybe found in another column.