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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1063, 16 September 1879, Page 2

A memo, from the Telegraph Office in-f-rrn.- us that communication between batavia an : Singapore has been interrupted H p.m. yesterday. A special Steamer >.•. :U |. a-..- •'.r.tavia for Singapore to-morrow. ::•• -i. taking on all telegrams. !■ i: ii tiiat tiie mails for ' laniani from tit.- United Kingdom, via Urindi.si and Southampton, arc expected to arrive at about !>••'!<) to-night by special train from Dunedin. Tiie correspondence will at once be disposed or". Those who have private boxes will reap tiie advantage of getting their letters tonight : tiie remaining portion will be d.-iivered throughout the town to-morrow morning. This, we presume, will be the tir-t of the new arrangement, The monthly meeting of tlic Hospital Committee will be held tills evening. Xo. 1 Company Oaniaru Kitles turned out vcrv well last evening, under Lieut. Headland's command, for their usual exercise. After being put through manual drill and iirim: exercise, the men had a turn at bayonet drill, in which they showed considerable improvement, thanks to the care bestowed upon them by Staff Seigt.-.Major M'Phcrson. The election of the first Mayor of the new Porough of Hampden is fixed for Monday, Ijth October; for Councillors the election will take place on the Sth October, and that f..r Auditors 011 the 10th. Mr. Alexander Young has bee;; appointed Town Clerk. The tiiot meeting ol the Conned will be held on the ISth October, at the Mechanics' Institute. The election of a member to represent (iladstonc in the House of Kepresentatis-es took place yesterday, and occasioned a large amount of excitement. The supporters ol both Mr. .Studholuie and lir. Deane worked hard, but this was more especially noticeaide on the part of those wiio were entrusted with the work of attending to Mr. Studiiohue's interests. Scores of voters were brought to Waimate from as far South as 1 and as far North as Christchurch ■„ wte for Mr. Studholme, Oamaru and this district contributing a very large share. The result was almost a foregone conclusion, for very few anticipated that Dr. Deane would be able to defeat the old member for the district, i\-[i>-. ;.uiy when it was known that voters were coming from all parts of tin: cf.-.iritry to poll for Mr. Scudhohne. On the result hcing made known at Waiinnte, there wa< considerable excitement, and Mr. Studholuie was forced a trap, and the horses having been remove.!. he was drawn tiiiotigii t'-.e principal streets by a number of his .-upporters. to.lov.vd oy a large croud, v,ho ehu..red lustily. Consi lit on tiie Volunteer I fall b-ing cag-ged on Wednesday and Thursday this week, the Philharmonic practice will be held on Friday evening in the usual place at iiali'-p.ist S o'clock. The r. hears." 1 for the concert in aid of the Korlh School gym-na.-ium and library will eominence at halfpast 7 sharp in tie-same hall, and is arranged t<> precede the Philharmonic practice, :o as not to inter:-.-!".?. The Waitaki Sheep 1 Trial is announced to t:,ke pia e at [)i;:it:'"Oii on cine- iav. Ist October. J,v. ry r !' 11 :'i. ;s being made bv the < 'ommittee to make the aliair 1 success, an-l judging from the interest tak.-n in last year's trials i.y station-masters, shepherds, and others we have no doubt the coming event will prove even more successful than that of its predecessor. Full particulars will be foun I in our advertising columns, and we w-.uld remind intending ■•o r ap- titors that entries will he received not later than tiie *J7tii iust. At the Resident Magistrates Court todav, beloi't: 1. V. . Parker, I'.s'j., 1 v. M., John Bradley, for being drunk and disorderly, was lined or -I hours' imprisonment. Th--mas M'Mahon, for a .-timitr.r offence, was cautioned and discharged. John Cameron P.laek was charged witii leaving his waggon and two horses unprotected in Tiianies-.itrcct, and was lined 10 s. Mails for the Australian Colonies and Tasmania, per Tararua, close on Thursday, the ISth in.it., at It a.m.. at the DlutF. We have read the letter of "'Also ' an Old Cricketer ' and Welt-*-, isher of lioth Club*, which appeared inourmorning contemporary. Without entering into tiie merits or demerits of tiie arguments ol lit- letter propel*. t>r those o: tiie i.>ri.sp/.. . ;it who called forth those arguments, v.e will remark upon the postscript, which really contains tin: pith of the whole thing. This is the postscript :—" I'.S.—Tiie annual meeting of the Oamaru Cricket Club docs not take place until tin: end of the present month, and as far as my experience goes, no club commences tiie season before that event takes place." What the writer intends to convey, we presume, is that not only arc the clubs of Oamaru anxiously waiting for the annual meeting of the Oamaru Cricket Club to take place, but the clul-s of the Colony, of Europe, of the civilised world, arc narrowly watching for the signal to be given for them to commence c-p'-ratiouH. W hat a vast weight of iespor.. il>iliiy rrstupon club of Hainan:. No club dares t" step ill before them. Ai Paris leads the :':i.-hi--m, so do thev lead the cricketing v -:! d. Then, gentlemen of the Oaniaru Cricket Club, let your deliberations be v.".of tiie mighty i'ltlueuee you wield. Lead tiie van nobly, and the world will follow y<".;. We have received the second number ot the Canterbury Journal of Coieriicree. It is well written, and nicely printed, and should prove especially valuable to commercial nun. The following article on tiie lii.-noy market starts the number before us :—There is no change to report in the condition oi the money market since our last. The stringency before noted still continues, and so far the capital actually available seems to have neither increased nor decreased. We have been passing through the turmoil ami excitement of contested elections ioltowing the dissolution of the House of liepresentattves. which took place a few days after the departure of the last outward mail via San Francisco: ami latterly election questions have t» a great degree superseded matters of commerce and finance. On the whole, though money is not yet more plentiful, a hopeful fccl-ng is prevalent. The weather has

been most favorable for sowing, and spring crops arc expected to be very good. The payments on the last "fourth, which were light, were very fairly met, particularly considering that the September fourth is generally one of our worst —if not the worst of the year. There is one very favorable svmptom worth noting, namely, that the values of properties have not deteriorated, although the times have been hard. Very fewforced sales have been made, holders generally declining to offer during the present depressed state of things. We therefore think that the absence of many property sale; at the prc.-eie: time is a h-a!tJ.y r-igu rather than otherwise, and tends to show that the opinions we have expressed as to better times approaching is held by a large number ij< men who are in a good position to judge as to the probable improvement to come about before many weeks have elapsed. Tiie Wellington Chronicle says:—"The Liberal triumph at the Eden election has many very significant features. The defeated candidate. Mr. Whitakcr, is an exPremier. Attorney-! Senerai, has satin the House of representatives for a great number of years, and has never before been defeated. In fact, both by himself and his admirers, Mr. Whitakcr has hitherto been regarded as an absolute necessity in New Zealand polities. Yet he has been defeated by the large majority of 10-1 by Mr. Tole, a young lawyer, and a staunch upholder of sound Liberal principles, and a New Zealand born man. The fact is that people are growing sick of the dry bones of polities, and have determined (as they emphatically did in Wellington, Wanganui, and other places on Friday last) to relegate the political fossils to the obscurity which is their natural clement." An extensive series of original illustrations has just been placed in one of the public rooms of the botanical department of the British Museum, which should be of special interest to strangers drawn to London by the agricultural exhibition. They illustrate the structure and germination of the grain of wheat, the growth, development, and structure of the wheat plant, and the nature of the numerous diseases to which it and other cereal crops are subject. They were drawn from nature by Francis Bauer, who justly held a first place amongst scientific draughtsmen for the remarkable combination of accurate observation and artistic skill which were found in him. The admirable series of drawings now on exhibition constitutes the most splendid monument to Mr. Bauer's extraordinary talents as an artist, and his skill as a microscopic observer. The life of the wheat from the seed to the production of the ripe grain is represented by drawings of plants beginning from one on the third day after sowing, and continuing at short intervals throughout its life history, and accompanied with illustrations of the minute structure of the various parts of the plant, its root, stem, leaf, flower, and seed. To these is added an equally extensive series, exhibiting the aspects of wheat and other ccreala uiider the influence of disease, with the minutest details of the parasitic fungi, and the small animals that are the causes of these diseases. Here the practical cultivator may sec the microscopic enemies which often destroy his crops, and may often trace tiie proiTess of the disease and the various phases in the lives of the parasites. The exhibition is made more instructive by the clear explanatory label which is affixed io each drawing. The rooms of the botanical department will be open each day during the Royal Agricultural Society's Exhibition,