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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1062, 15 September 1879, Page 2

I" is restored on the Western Asstwlua line. »»,iawni Coffvu Room* arc meeting v.-:rh a «;<:n.-;d»-ral»!«: amount of support, and .tirn.viv _-.'vc evidence of being not only seli•;r j or'.irrbut actually icmunerativc. ir. .c w< ok th<- rooms were visited i.v persons, anil on Saturday alone the ndr.nee r-.-ached 1-0, wliile the cash taken a marked increase over the amount received during the previous week. Tii'; promoters, especially the ladies who -re entrusted with the management of the r.iotns, should feel highly gratified with the suews which has attended the undertaking. 'i'h.- i.'hriatchureh Press lias been made to lick the dust. This hot zealot for the cause •>i the-Opposition, in its unscrupulosity, dared to publish a statement in a leading article to the effect that the Native Minister had instigated the Maoris at Oeraldine and Kai[ioi to vote for Ministerial candidates. The Press, whoso virtuous indignation has frequently been aroused when its side was attacked lor actual misdeeds —who has on such occasions read a moral lecture to the accusers—must have felt it humiliating to have to publish a recantation in such terms as these "We desire to express our deep that we should have brought an unfounded charge against the Native Minister and the Kaipoi Natives." There was a crowded attendance at the i ii.dit o'clock service at the New Tees-street flail last night. The choir sang some new songs before the service commenced. The total amount of revenue collected at the Customs during last week amounted to L 222 l-ls (Jd.

The Hampden School Committee having, with .i praiseworthy desire to extend the usefulness of the educational establishment under their control, decided to introduce the teaching of science in the school, a concert and hall will be (riven in the local Mechanics' Institute on the 2tfth instant for the purpose of purchasing the necessary apparatus. The proceeds will be devoted entirc-ly to this object, and no effort will be -pared to make the affair an unqualified success. As the admission has been fixed at a very moderate figure, the hall should be well filled. We were to-day shown a chain, consisting of three links, and a fancy knot, made of 0.-imaru stone. These article* wen: made by Mr. Cormack, an amateur carver, and presented to a friend. They afford another evidence of the amenr-bility of Oamr.ru stone to the chisel. as they arc tastefully and ::ccur."te!y made. Our renders arc reminded that Mr. -L K. P.iowu's {••cture on Life Assurance as a bread principle wi'.l iriven lb":i evening at 7--' l! ;i. f . tTie Tev i*.;treec Hal!. Tliere will be Ji«> • i'.r.r_-e for r. imis-ion. and our only fear ithat the place of assembling will not be suilieientlv 1.-.rire to contain the «tidi<-!tee that will Without favoring ariy special svstem. we would impress upon all the wisdom of giving tin: »ui»ject th<;ir mo.-t serious consideration. \\ e need not enumerate the circumstances under which attention to life assurance conies next to godliness. Tr.f'e circumstances will occur to the minds of our readers if they V<"i!l give themselves time t'> reflect upon the matt"--. Whether a man be old or young. married or unmarried, with or without a family, he should insure. Of coarse there w the very appreciable ad vpntn/i- r>f smnllncs* of premium:* if a man ' insures whilst young. However, we will 'not attempt to anticipate some of Mr. | P.rown's arguments, but would recommend the ladies to be present ; we would recommend them to do more-—never to marry until tho.ie who .seek to be tln.ir husbands have made provision for them and their prospective families by insuring in one of our life assurance companies. \\ e heir that the lecture will be over by about half-past !> o'clock, so that In ads of families will not be kept out till a late hour. | We learn that a capital concert is to be •riven on Saturday evening next, at the Volunteer Hall, the proceeds of which arc to be devoted to the gymnasium and library fund of the North School. The programme | comprises vocal and instrumental music by Oamaru and Dunedin friends, some of whom the public will be delighted to hear again after a lapse of year.; since they last heard them. Mr. Lindsay, the master, has displayed great interest in making arrangements for the entertainment, and it is due to him that his efforts should be seconded by the public. Mr. Fleming. Chairman of the School Committee. \t;M occupy the chair. The tickets will lie entrusted to the scholars for sale to-morrow. At tho E.M. Court this morning, David Kinnear was charged with being illegally in .1 stable belonging to Alfred Cameron, of Pnn'reon. After hearing the evidence, Mr. I'arker discharged the accused, Mrs. W. E. Brunton'a Juvenile Dancing Class is announced to meet in future on Wednesdays, instead of Fridays, at the St. Andrew's Hall. If wc were the Dunedin people, we would have lost all hope of getting the workshops transferred to l)unedii! from < 'hristehurch. Although we did not exactly see how it was to be brought about, there, was some little chance before the Dunedin elections were ovt r, and that chance depended upon !>n:;cdin ret:;: men v. :i<> would co-0-vrate with the Libera! party ir> oilier more imt" v rtarit Matters than that of removing ■lie railway work-di' ••-. The Premier dealt j!;.- d« ath-bi.-.w to til-- li'-pe.j of tile Dir.i jdinites when he remarked lately at ('hristchui eh that that city must of neee-sity be the centre ' f railway system of the Middle Island. An exchange says : —"lt is reported that Mr. Ivlwr.r-l i'earce lias brought out 1-700,000 to invest for owners in this ♦ olotiy." For the information of our readers we beg to state that Mr. Pearce is in Wellington. We have not the pleasure >jf a personal acquaintance with him, but we should think that, if he is a liberal man, he is just the one that should be abie to make any number of friends jiiat now. It w.ci'd appear that, notwithstanding the , suicidal jio'.i-jy of the Government, by which capital is said to be seared from the Colony, "lie '.!<>w of its tide has not been entirely stctl. A few .-.mounts such as those enan. trt ,_ £ ~ \ to Mr. I'earce for investment would place th- Colony in a much better financial position ch.l. ' il !,aa cvor occupied ; and, not-

withstanding the hypochondriacal forebodings of numerous haters of the laud tax, and tliu Government that introduced this measure in order to more fairly distribute the burthen of our indebtedness, money is bound to find its way here. The vacuum tiiat exist;; c n be profitably filled up by British capitalists. .Some nigger driver has b-.-uii writing to the Lyttelton Times, advocating the extension of banking hours on Saturdays. Either he is oblivious of the duties of a bank clerk, or Ik; is a heartless fellow, who would, for the sake of some stupid v.-him, compel ail already too hard-worked ami miserably under-paid class to work themselves into their graves. As a writer in reply very prr.perly points out, a bank clerk's labor is i:'jt iiii:.-:hed when his bank closes, as the shining through the windows will often prove. An American paper informs us that the I'atti Concert Combination < ouipany, coinprising Carlotta I'atti. ">5-nri Kctten, pianist; Krnest de Mulick, violoncellist; Mr. Phelps, tenor ; Signer Ciampi Celkii, barritone : and Signer Fortuna, accompanist, has been engaged by Mr. Chizzola for a concert tour around the world, commencing in iNew York the latter part of .September. The company will give fifty concerts in the United States, and then go to Australia and New Zealand. The following is an instance of generosity which is not always to be met with. A candidate for a Canterbury constituency when tile electors, now some time ago, was asked to contribute towards a fund being raised for the benefit of the widow and children of a man who had been accidentally killed. The gentleman handed the collector a card at the meeting, with a sum on it, ' telling him at the same time not to look at it until after the election. The poll was taken ami the candilate beaten, but yesterday lie handed the collector a cheque, and on looking at the card it was found that the cheque was for three times the amount first named. The cheque was not given in error.—Lyttelton Times. A return laid oil the table by the Hon. Sir < Jeorge Grey, with the leave of the House, showing the quantities of timber aiul flour imported into tho Colony during each of the last two financial years, and which return is published for general information, gives the following results :—June 30, 1878, timber (sawn), 4,:"»77,440 feet; flour, 4293 tons. June •JO, IST'J, timber (sawn), 7,703,307 feet; flour, 2957 tons. Kecent American papers report a case of cataract in the human eye having been cured by the application of electricity. A Dr. William B. Xeftel, of Xew York, subjected I the patient—an old lady 03 years of age, with incipient cataract —to repeated applications of electricity in the neighborhood of the diseased eye, with the result that the cataract has been entirely dissipated.