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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1219, 13 March 1880, Page 2

We hear that Messrs. J. and T, Meek have forwarded a trial shipment of oatmeal to the QIA Country, Jn order to ensure its arrival in good order it has been placed in sound barrels which are lined with brown paper. Other shipments are. to follow. It is expected that as the sample sent is much superior to that prepared in the Old Country it will meet with a ready sale, and eventually open up a trade which will grow to such proportions as to relieve this market and. prevent such an aegumulatipn of patjs as that which now"kegps prises' so. fabulously lp,w. This is the desirable and. praiseworthy object which the Messrs. Meek have in view, and we trust that this new move will be alike advantageous to the district and the firm.

The St. Paul's Young Men's Association will assemble on Monday evening next to listen to a paper entitled " A Night With Scott," The request made in the advertisement for (> full attendance will, we should thii&j'be willingly respshded'tq,'. U?he meet:, ing will commence at 7-30 p.m.

The formation of the roadway of the Windsor-Livingstone line will, we learn, be resumed at the beginning of next month. Mr. Janies Wansbrqugh has apparently a grievance against the School Committee, but judging from the following letter, read at last night's meeting'of the Committee, he has a very gentle way of dealing with the matter :—" March 1, 1880.—Gentlemen,— My account, which has bgen so long standing, and referred to the Finance Cpmmittee for settlement, has not yet resulted in anything calculated to' cheer one's drooping spirits, nor produce a glimmering ray of hope for the future. Yours obediently, James Wansbrough."—From what we can gather, the account referred to has been outstanding for about two years, and was incurred prior to the initiation of the present education system,

A sample of ©arepra wheat (says the South Canterbury Times) took first prize at the Sydney Exhibition, yet the bakers of Timaru complain that good flour in Timaru is unobtainable. There are three mills in the district, yet a large amount of money is regularly transmittedtotbemillersofOamaru. Recently a firm of bakers in Timaru started a ready cash' business with a small capital, and they have had quite a run on'iiheir bread. When asked the secret of their success their reply is, "Oamaru flour." We have no desire to puff up the latter; on the contrary, we should like to see local enterprise thriving much better than it is, and this is our reason for inviting the attention of the millers of Timaru to these facts. There is a screw loose somewhere, for Timaru ha? the wheat and the machinery, and why her bakers should require to import flour from the other side of the Waitaki is a mystery.

The acceptances fpr the forthcoming ra.ee meeting of'the Oaniaru' Jockey Club are scarcely so numerous as might have been expected, but the animals remaining in the principal handicaps are of goqd quality, and should afford some capital sport, According to a late American paper, Peru and Chili are likely to become large purchasers of- oats. Here is another opening for our supplies, either in a raw state or in the form of oatmeal.

A meeting of the Committee of the Oarnaru Jockey jDlub was held last evening, when there 'we're' present—Mess's. Hardy (in the chair), Greenfield, Paterson, Moss, and Sonthan (hon. secretary). Mr, Studholme wrote intimating that business engagements would prevent his acting as Judge at the races, and stating that Mr. W. J. Steward would act in his stead. Mr. Franck wrote, offering a certain sum for permission to have a totalisator in the saddling paddock at the forthcoming races, but the offer was declined, the Club having already disposed of the tight of using the totalisator. A communication with reference to a betting transaction dispute was read, and it was decided to recommend the parties to settle the matter amicably. A Canvassing Committee was appqinted, and the meeting ter-. minated.

A few days ago we stated that a large number of small brown trout had been found in the dry portions of the river bed at the mouth of the Kakanui River. We were then of opinion that these small fish had met with death entirely through the shrinkage of the river. But we are informed qn good authority that they have been the victims of fishing nets—that they have been caught in the meshes, and released by fishermen, but only to die from the shock. The name of Mr. Florence is well-known jn t)ie Colony. Between four and five years ago he mad ! e his first appearance in ISTpw Zealand as pne of the teno.ri primi of the Simonsen opera troupe. He then made a favorable impression, and has since met with no small success during a concert tour through the Colony. He will appear at the Volunteer Hall, Oamaru, in conjunction with Mrs. Florence, on Tuesday next, and will on that occasion give a miscellaneous concert of popular music.