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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1069, 23 September 1879, Page 2

\V. her.r that about yoO head of the M'.rvc'i Hi!:.- cattle were to-day soM to Mr. A'<.\aiider Thomson. l>y Messrs. Council anil t A- we arc informed by excellent jij-lif.that these arc good store animals, wo .IP- "_'iad that they have been purchased by Mr. Thomson for sale in this district. No t'Uil.t, as feed i 3 now becoming . plentiful, and there is every promise of an almost unexampled season, the demand for cattle will prohahly lie suuli that Mr. Thompson will not have cause to repent his purchase. It now npp ars that the information which we published in our paper on Saturday last to tit-r »t that tv.-o men had been drowned :n the Ohau Kiver is incorrect. A Mrs. Morri.ion and her daughter were the victims. The accident occurred in this manner :—Mr. Stronaeh, of the Hen Ohan station, was, on the evening of the IStii, driving a trap across tiie Oiiau Iliver containing a laborer n.tined Morrison and his wife and child, who were endeavoring to catch the coach starting from Omarama on the morning of the 1 Oth September. The trap capsized in the river, Mr. Stronach and the man getting clear. Soine difficulty wa.s experienced in finding the bodies of the mother and child, but they were rescued on Saturday morning last. Mr. Sutherland is attending to the burial of the bo lies. There will be 110 in<|uest. Xo le.-3 than seven boys, all infants, have been ushered into the world in and around N'gnpara during the past four or five weeks. Seeing that thee births have occurred in a population of about a hundred, there is every reason for the Xgaparians to console themselves that they wiil lie able to supply their own farm laborers and tradesmen of a tar better .|iiality than those that have been imported at the country a expense. But what r. : .out female companions for these boys when they become men The matter is really serious. The Ashburton Agricultural and Pastoral Association are endeavoring to make arnuigettt> nis to hold their show 011 the 2Uth ISO---ivber. If they decide to do this their .-how will clash with ours, and both will Miller. We feel sure that the Committee of the Ashburton Agricultural and Pastoral Society could not have been aware that the ■JOth of November has been fixed upon as one of our show days, or they would not t .-eelc to hold their show on the same day. It is very necessary that the Secretaries "f those Societies whose shows, thank-; to tlu; railway >y.-tem, are almost as good as one br-.'tr .»t:->w, where a'l may meet. Without r.rtv serious loss of time or expenditure of m'-r.ey. should communicate with olln is with a view to fixing the dates o; the'.r jho-v« ( so as to v.orl; hand :n hand tor t: e a'COiiipii.-l.mi nt of the great objects t'ue\ ' have i;t view, tor in connection with those | ..Kjeots unity is just as promotive ~f strength las it is in other things. There can be 1.0 ; doubt that v.-hi-n the Ashburton Agri, ultural 'and Pa-tor.il Society's Committee are made : aw.-.rf of tif: fact that, if their intention is ; tarried out. their show and that of this j di.-tnet v.iil more, or interfere with each ! other, tinry will arrange <li"n.-!e:itiy. The names of a number of prominent Canterbury .v_f-ieulturists that have been in the habit of visiting the shows of this district, year after year, to their advantage r.nd that of those j whom they have met. occur to us as wo write. We should not like to see such men absent from our show, the Ashburton Society would not like them to be absent from their show, and these visitors would like to be present at both. The U:»(;:;l monthly meeting of the Waia j r.-ka Koad Board will be held to-morrow, at j i 1 a.m. The rehearsal of the Philharmonic Societywill not be held to-morrow evening in cons>'>nteiiee of the unfavorable weather, but 011 Thur.-day evening instead, in the hope that the weather will improve by that time. The Ashburton Evening News, atter an existence of live weeks, has succumbed to that vital complaint scarcity of cash, the re- ... nit of journalistic redundancy. A special meeting of members of the InI dependent Order of Good Templars will be ! iieid this evening, at eight o'clock, in the Xew Tees-street Hall. At a meeting of the Committee of the • lamani Dramatic Club Inst evening, it was decided to give two performances, the halt of the clear "proceeds of both to be devoted • to the Oamarii Hospital funds, which, at the pn sent time, tr-*".t!y i" "'! some augmentation. The i «:■! fi.:;:i:i'.e.v/:li be given on the Hiili and 17til October, and every effort is beiitj; made to lender the first performances of the new club in all ie-pycts successful. The pieces to be performed will, on clin first evenini', be Stirling Covnc's comedy or '• Mack Sheep" (never before played in Oamaro) and the farce of "To Paris and back for IJi. On the second evening " The Rough Diamond " will be coupled with the comedy. Mrs. Walter Hill, one of tiie best aetressc-i in the Colony, has consented to assist the cluli. and will play the leading parts in two of the pieces. The club will also have the valuable assistance of Mrs. Kinncar, so that the female characters in the pieces will Ik; W ell tilled—a consummation seldom achieved in amateur dramatic performances. Tiie pieces chosen are all good, and the various parts arc well filled ; but, 111 addition to these attractions, a further feature will be presented in the form of some really excellent scenery, nov/ in course of preparation. So far everything points to the conclusion that the initial performances of the Oamarii Dramatic Club will be amongst tiie best, if not actually the best, ever given by amateurs in Oamarii. The Asiibui-ton A. and P. Society's horse p:ir.\de is to be heiu 011 the !M)th iust. l - or the sake of those in this district who are interested in iucli eve-its, we give our Ashburton friends this cheap ..dvci-ii-.emcnt. At the same time we think that .t mistaken economy not to announce such events in the ordinary way. What should be aimed at now is to attract as large a number of eornuetitors and onlookers as possible. Everything is favorable to such an end, of course, excepting the unfortunate parsimony of the managers of such affairs, who get together animals from their immediate localities, look at them approvingly, pat each other on the backs, and delude themselves with tlio idea that thev are beating the world. Isolation of agricultural societies and kindred institutions is a grave mistake. We have endeavored, in recommending the expedient of advertising to the Ashburtonites, to divest our uiinds of interested motives, and we really think that we have succeeded. But this does not affect the question at issue. We have demonstrated that advertising in connection with agricultural societies shows Is the best policy. Professor HoUoway owes his success to the fact that he made the world his customers by means of universal advertising.