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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1065, 18 September 1879, Page 2

Mait* teavr llatavin f>,r on the moni:[ti.'s of the -I ■" and "J'ith. Xone e.\|»'ctt'>« t» arrive t f>:!« Siir:."|">:o until the •rth. There ar.- not two papers in the Colony that have route to tin* s.'u;r: <.onenision in jtt'l.'iiii; ot tin; polities of tno members ot the new Parliament. 'l ite view taken ot the position of parties? varies according to tiie [H J:ey of tfie papers enunciating those view.-. After all. it is a very diilienlt matter to judge with any degree of accuracy as to whether there will lie .-, majority for otic side or the other, anil from what we know of the dispositions of some hon. members?, wc should say t'tat they know as little as we do what they are likely to do when the House meets. A meeting of the Provisional Committer; appointed at a public meeting some time -it:. !- to obtain information a;;d ivjjort upon the feasibility of establishing a coffee pah'.ce tit Oamartl. was held la.-t eveiiiiiL'. when th-re w.-re pr--sent -Me-.-rs. i-.-weoniT (in the eiir.iri. M.-sit.vnt. S-:'.t'.:i. ('..upcr. I>aw.""t!. Mirams. MMarh?:". 1 Watson. An ••fTer from Mr. Thor Morris of r0"!...-? in his new bttildin;_'s in War.-h.■..•'.'-street was re.-eived. Alter so::u' disit was decided that it v.or.id he premati;:v ro commit the promoters to any tixed expense. Messrs. Milligan and C. (J. Moore, who were present, gave some information as to lite stieees.4 whieh v. as attending the cot.'ec room in Itchvii-sireet. A good deal of dis-eiis.-ioti of a coi'.vc;\-:i"ioiial character took [ 'e. !»:t it was not decided to take any further .-tej'- at pre.i-.nt. j .t:lI - ; ; ; ■-.!! :. 1 L.'J--; jto--:n>« • .st i>.tutrou;t. in a: i of the 'ovt.l library, when tho.-e v.i.-j attvi.-t are p;o;u : --..I a:i e\c<.l'ei>i in whieh j .'ii.u.v Oam.-.r;: r.r:iatct:rs will tahe ;::irt, in addition to the best talent of the district. There was a very good attendance at the exhibition entitled "The Tenth Wonder of the World" at St. Andrew's Hall last evening. A dudilkt of gifts, useful and or-

namentnl, were distributed. There will be another exhibition this evening.

Messrs. Miller and Smillie to-day commenced the third section of their new breakwater contract. In order that our readers may understand the nature and extent of the work that is now in progress in connection with the Breakwater, we may explain that the contractors have completed two sections of their new contract of 700 feet. l>v which about 34 feet have been added to the Breakwater, making the total I< :igth at present 074 feet. The work is being honestly and speedily prosecuted, thm.k-: to tiie enterprise of the contractors, who nave iafi-Iy added upwards of T.:!t:00 worth i:' plant and material to their j appliances. This circumstance alone is a guarantee that the contractors arc in earnest and intend to give every possible satisfaction to the 15oard and the public. At the Resilient Magistrate's Court today. before T. W. Parker, Esq., E.M., William O'Connor and John O'Connor were charged with being neglected children, having been found sleeping in the open air at 1.20 a.m. this morning. As both their parents were in gaol—the mother in Oamaru anil the father in Dunctlin—undergoing terms of .imprisonment for drunkenness, his Worship remanded the two lads till tomorrow iu order to ascertain if accommodation could lie found for them in the Industrial School. Mr. I'ice (head-master of the South School), who takes great interest in the advancement of his beys in military accomplishments, has succeeded in making them sufliciently proficient to warrant an application to the Government to have hie company formed into a cadet corps. If this application is granted, there will be four cadet corps iu Oamaru. We would draw attention to an advertisement stating that the s.s. Beautiful Star will sail for Hum-din on Friday (to-morrow), instead of Saturday. The Tiinaru llerald says: —The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company received advices by the Suez mail of the sale of a parcel of their wheat on July •J Ist at 52s per quarter ((is Gd per bushel). This is the highest juice fetched by any wheat from the 'Tiinaru district this year. We may state that the parcel alluded to was grown by Mr. Alex. Mec, fanner, of Pleasant i'oint. The Morning Herald says :—" Many of our readers will doubtless remember the Keimcdv family of Scotch vocalists who visited Duuedin some years ago. The sons Robert and James have been studying in ttalv for the lyric stage, and we have been favored with the perusal of an Italian paper which speaks very highly of their first appearance at Bivsiea. in .July last, in the opera of ' f.ucia." as Kdgardo and Enrico respectively. Arrangements were also pending for their appearance in 'JI Trovatore'and 'La Traviata.' As the Kennedys became intimately acquainted with many of our citizens during their visits to Duncdin, their friends will no doubt be pleased to learn the progress which the younger members of the family have made iu their profession." Mr. James Gordon Bennett's steamer .feanuette. carrying the New \ ork Herald K-.ploring K\p'-dition to the Arctic Seas via Bchring's Strait, has just sailed from San l-'rancineo. The Jeannette, which is very .strongly built, has been recently strengthened by heavy tr.-.nverse beams to resist ice ••jams." Lieut. De-long. of the United States .N'avv. commands. All the other officers have i,e,;n selected from the navy. Tile erew of eighteen men have been carefully chosen out of KtflO applicants, Tiio expedition attracts much attention throughout the country. It will endeavor to reach the North Pule. Lieut. Dclong believing that the i.-e current setting iu northward through I'.'-ir.ing's Strait will aid him. One day lately Princess Louise and the Duke of Argyll were on the Mctnpediac river in a canoe, manned by two Mieinac Indians, and while, crossing the .stream where 1 lie current wa-: strong, the frail craft •.v." ; thrown against some logs which had "jammed" below the rapid. The dexterity of tin- Indian.- xvilh their piddles rendered tiie cone::.-.-ion harmies, ; but the canoe jusl then .-witi-j-!:'/ suddenly round, the end oi a log was likely to pin one of the men against the side of the boat. Ail would have been in the river in an in.-taut but for tin- presence of mind of the Indian, who leap: head-foremost into the v. ;. ; r, and thus i»av-d tiie Princess and His (I race from at lea.-t a ducking. The occupants of the canoe could not help laughing at the tigure cut by the redskin, both in going over the side and after lie was rescued ; but the in- ; ei-leiit put an end to their fishing for that alleriioon. The New York Herald contains the following despatch descriptive of the terror occasioned at Memphis by the yellow fever | outbreak : —"Memphis, Teun., July 10 Notwithstanding the fact that there are only j two persons in the entire city sick with the I ve!!ow fever, yet the exodus of citizens from Memphis recalls the flight from Kgvpt of the Israelites. Kvery train has been crowded to oversowing, and hundreds were unable to get away. Confidence is being restored, however, and by to-morrow morning it is to be hoped the worst fears of the most panicky will be allayed. Humors Were current during the day of railroad tracks being torn up to prevent the passage of trains, which in a measure added to the fears of the people, who argued that if the few cases now in the city should spread they would be shut off from the cutside world. This alone caused hundreds to leave who otherwise would have remained to watch the result of the cases now being attended to by the physicians. J, E. R. Ray, Judge of the Criminal Court of Shelvy County, and a son, aged twenty-three, are the only sick people now being treated for yellow fever. .Judge Ray's residence is in the outskirts, fully a mile'distant from the heart of the city. It is thought that the death last night and the sickness of Judge Ray's family are but sporadic cases. Yet such is the dread the people have of the saffron scourge that nothing but death can prevent them from Hying at a first alarm. J-'rom a sanitary view the city was never in a better cunditi n than now. For months the authorities have used every energy to cleanse the streets and alleys, and everyone was congratulating himself on the healthy outlook, when t!;e death of last night came like a thunderbolt- from the sky on a clear day. From sex-en o'clock to-day the Main-street has been one great throng of excited people. Towards nightfall a feeling of confidence was experienced by many, especia'ly when it became known that of the five new eases report..! to-day but two were genuine yellow fever. It has' just been announced that Norfolk, Yr.., and Holly Springs, Miss., have quarantined against Memphis. The Board of Health have issued a notice in which they state that of the five new cases reported three were not yellow fever. The Board of Health advises the people to remove their families to a place of safety."