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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 795, 29 October 1878, Page 2

Are any more Government immigrants to be sent direct to Oamaru this season ? This is a question which forces itself upon our notice in consequence of—as the police sayinformation received. From what we can gather, there seems every probability that for the future no more immigrants are to be senttoOamaru, and that farmersandothersrequiring assistants and laborers will be forced either to go Dunedin to make their selections, or send orders there for what they require, and trust implicitly in Providence—or rather in the Immigration Officer at Dunedin—upon obtaining suitable and respectable employes. We had hoped that this question had been finally settled, and that this district was to receive the same amount of consideration as is bestowed upon other large centres ; but it seems that such is not the case, and the old system of being blessed, or perhaps cursed, with the last selection from the immigrants received in the metropolis is to be perpetrated. We have had quite enough of tins kind of thing, and once more strongly protest against being any longer treated in this manner. We should and must receive our fair share of the immigrants arriving in Dunedin, and until some system is adopted by which this can be carried out, we shall not cease raising our voices against the perpetration of the gross injustice in this matter of immigrants which has so long been inflicted upon North Otago.. We apologise to our subscribers whose papers should have been delivered regularly by the Maerewhenua train. What with the irregularity" in the delivery of papers sent out of the office by us for them, caused by the constant alteration of guards, and our occasional omission to forward their copies, they have been treated badly. In extenuation of our apparent neglect we would urge the difficulties of publishing a paper at about a quarter-past three o'clock in the afternoon. Telegrams from various parts of the Colony and cablegrams from Europe, which are the soul of an evening paper, do not arrive until so shortly before that hour that it is with exceeding difficulty that wc have been able to publish any of them in the country edition, and it is in attempting to insert some item of news of more than ordinary importance in order to make our sheet as interesting as possible to our country readers, that we have missed the trains, and they have been deprived of their papers altogether. If we were satisfied with merely tilling up our space regardless of the nature of the matter, our subscribers would get their nn-pors regularly, but it would not be worth reading ; and the effect would soon be apparent by a decrease of names on our subscribers' roll. We intend to make another attempt to despatch our papers by the Maerewhenua train without imparing the quality of our matter; but if we should aecasionally fail, we would ask our subscribers who are served by that train to extend to us their consideration.

The Committee of the Oamaru Philhar- < monic Society are to meet to-morrow (Wed- ; nesday) afternoon at 4 o'clock to make final : arrangements for the next concert, which, ' we understand is to be held on the Prince of Wales' Birthday, at the Volunteer Hall. The usual Wednesday evening practice will be held to-morrow evening in Waitaki Hall. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, his Worship committed William White, charged with forgery, for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court, Dunedin. Communication has been partly restored on the Port Darwin line, and it is expected to be all right to-day. Notice has been received of an interruption beyond Batavia. The Western Australian line is interrupted beyond Port Augusta. A meeting of the Council of the Acclimatisation Society .will be held at Messrs. Connell and Clowes"' offices on Friday, at noon. A meeting of the Committee of the North Otago Turf Club will be held at the Empire Hotel on Thursday evening, at 8 o'clock, to receive nominations for the forthcoming races. The united prayer meeting will be held at half-past seven o'clock this evening, in the old Tees-street Hall. The usual monthly meeting of the Waiareka Road Board will be held in the Board Room, Tyne-street, to-morrow (Wednesday) at 11 a.m. Seldom indeed has a lecture been listened to so attentively, and by so large an audience, as was that delivered in the Volunteer | Hall last evening by the Rev. Dr. Roseby, of Dunedin, on " Constantinople, the City of the Emperor, the Patriar-ch, and the Sultan." . Dr. Roseby occupied more than an hour and a half in the delivery of the lecture, but, , from first to last, succeeded in maintaining [ the attention of his audience, who appeared ' to be thoixraghly interested in the subject. \ And well they might be, for the subject was [ handled in a masterly manner, the main , points in the history of the city being [ brought prominently forward by the lecturer, , and clothed in refined and eloquent lan- ■ g ua g e - At * ne conclusion of the lecture, a ! hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Dr. ' Roseby, on the motion of the Rev. Mr. , Dewsbury; and his Worship the Mayor, who presided, expi-essed a hope that the rev. i gentleman would ere long favor an Oamaru j. audience with another lecture.

Volunteers are reminded that a special instruction parade will be held this evening, at 8 o'clock.

The meeting of intending members of the National Rifle Association called for last evening has been adjourned until Mow-In-next, it having been discovered i;iat ilw. election of a local committee could not t;iko place until November.