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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1155, 29 December 1879, Page 2

! The death at the age of 55 of Mr. Henry i Tewsley. tFi- well-known and respected reI prMentative of the firm of Messrs. .Sargood, ! Son, and Ewing in Dam-din, and for many years Chairman of the Inmcdin Harbor ffoard. has cast a gloom over the place of which he was such a good citizen. His loss Will lie greatly felt m many quarters: for notwithstanding that he, like other public men. had his enemies, it will l>e difficult to till Iti.s place. UrasKifii: »n«J f'rothera* English Comic Operetta live their second entertainment at the Volunteer Hall on Saturday evening to ak moderate attendance. Tne pieces pe r * [fsrutetl were " * 'Flic Clielsea I ensioncr, a masictl melange, and "Tlie_ Roce of various items in the progxapime were well rendered, the audience repeatedly testifying by*their applause that they were well pleased with the entertainment. ' *

At the Kcsidcnt Magiitrate's Court to-day Jamea KcJily once morc chargcd with

having been drunk and disorderly, and was sent to gaol for eight days. Special confirmation ssrviees were held in St. Luke's Church yesterday evening. Bishop Xcvill, of Dunedin, a i "Iressed the candidates, numbering nineteen, taking for his text the 13th and ISih verses of the 6th chapter of the Epistle to the Ej hesians. The congregation was vevy largf, many being unable to enter the church. The anthem given by the choir was "Adeste Fideles," arranged by Novello. It bein£ the fiwt Sunday after Christinas, the festival decorations of flowers and devices were added to, ! and fresh blooms placed in lieu of any that showed signs of fading. The colors were I blended tastefully, and the whole ment was exceptionally good, harmonious, and graceful. The Christmas number of the Otago "V\ i;ness is mo3t appropriate for this season oi the year. It is enclosed in a well-print cu colored wrapper, and contains a number of interesting Christmas stories and other interesting matter. The bad quality of beer and tobacco is (says the New Zealand Times) seldom the cause of complaint and debate in the Upper House of a Legislative Assembly. During the Property Assessment Bill di3CUS:ion in the Council several speakers urged a tax as high a3 sixpence per gallon on colonial beer, and one lion, member stated as a reason for this course that colonial breweries had been most carefnlly protected, and exempted from taxation—favors which they requited by brewing most abominable beer. The emphatic "Hear, hears," which followed the remark betrayed a considerable amount of feeling on the subject. Later on, Captain Fraser, speaking on. the Tobacco Bill, opposed it on the ground that to pass it would be injurious to health. Tobacco grown in New Zealand would be of such detestable bad aroma that its being smoked in large quantities would vitiate the air of the Colony and the lungs of it 3 inhabitants. He had authority for speaking so. An lion, gentleman in that building was so lost to all sense of the fitness of things and the respect due to other people's noses as to smoke Swis3 cigars—("Name, name") —and then smell was execrable. That convinced him that if villainous cigars were made in the Colony they would find smokers, and the result he had predicted would inevitably follow. In the interest of the public health he should therefore oppose the Bill most

I strenuously. (Applause.)