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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 4 October 1880, Page 2

Captain Edwin says:—Bad weather is approaching from - any direction between north-west and west and south. The glass will further rise. Present indications are for--a strong gale southward soon; but the wind is likely to back after twelve hours, and the glass will fall again. The sale of Mr. J. O'Meagher's furniture and effects by Mr. A, H. Maude this afternoon was largely attended. The bidding, especially in the drawing-room, was very spirited, and good prices were obtained. The grand piano was knocked down "to Mr. G, A, Sutton, for Mr. George, for LS4, The sale will be continued to-morrow at noon. Our Ngapara correspondent writes:—On Thursday evening last three men named Wm. Veale, John Kenzie, and James M'Lauchlan left Ngapara in a dray for Mansfield, and news was received here early this morning (Friday) that they had met with an accident on the road. Constable Walker proceeded to the spofc at 9 a.m., and found that the man M'Lauchlan vas injured so. much that his removal to the hospital was necessary. On enquiry it was found that Veale was leading the leader at the time, and M ( £auphlan was in the dray holding the shafter's reins, but the night being so dark they went over a small cutting, the dray overturned and the end of one of the top rails penetrated the fleshy part of M'Lauchlan's thigh and pinned him to the road. The portion of the road where the accident occurred is considered imsafe to travel over on a dark night unless extreme caution is used. The place where it happened is about a mile from the place where the late Mr. Strachan met hisdeath. The Oamaru Cricket Club bad a scratch match on Saturday between sides chosen by the Secretary and Treasurer, resulting in a win for the Secretary's side. The Excelsior Cricket Club played a mat.ch on Saturday, on the Old Cricket Ground, between the first eleven and noxt eighteen. Cooke, captain for the eleven, having won the toss, elected to go in first, and before the last wicket fell, the scoreiiad reached 140, Marshall being top scorer with 43. Bannerman and Ham bowled very well for Jheir side. The eighteen, captained by Bannerman, t]ien wept to the wickets, but made no show against the bowling of Finch and Cooke, having lost ten wiokets for 24 runs when time was called. The match will be played out next Saturday. The term for which Mr. Williamson's purchased the sole right to perform Pinafore in ]S"pvy Zealand and Australia has, it is rumored amongst theatrical oirgles, expired, We have every reason to believe that the rumor is correct. But a few months ago an attempt was made by several members of Parliament to get permission from Mr. Gillion (Mr. Williamson's agent in New Zealand) to perform Pinafore in Wellington for the amusement of members and their friends, and the benefit of some local charity, and had permission been granted, Mr, Pyke was to have undertaken the role of Sir Joseph Porter. But the reply was to the effect that the Williamson Company intended tp visit the Color.}', and would not, therefore, on any account, afford an opportunity for rendering the operetta more common than it had already been made. Now wesee tbattlieCarey Company intend to gjye it i{i \7ellingtot l , with Miss Ledf as Josephine ; it is also to be performed in Dunedin by the Lydia Howard Troupe, and Mr. Florence, who is here now, is prepared to follow suit by getting together, if possible, a number of amateurs to place it upon .the boards. It therefore - appears that the hindrance no longer exists, and, although the liberty to perform the operetta has come at a time when its are whiatle4 by boys in the streets, yet there is much beauty in its music, much of which is of such a character that it will never be worn threadbare. Two drunkards who appeared before the .Resident Magistrate this morning were fined 5s each with the usual alternative. On Saturday night last Captain Barry essayed to deliver a second "lecture" at fjiparu. He managed to stem the torrent of interruptions for tftrpp.-quai'ters of an hour, until at last, just as he was elaborating a " cuffer " more difficult to swallow than its predecessors, the noise became awe-in-spiring. and he bowed himself off the stage gracefully, thanking the audience for the patient hearing they had accorded him. He was on the right side of the hedge—he had got their flioney in his pocket. They had not heard more than l>al£ pf l)is " lecture," and if they did not want to. hear it, there was no law in New Zealand to enforce their attention.

T'he pofipt (if Queen's Bench lately-decided that the English railway which provides that a passenger who loses his ticket or does not take, one is liable to be charged the fare from the place whence the train stapted i,= nllfa vires and inoperative. Referring jo tfce palp pf the Waimate Plains, the Patea Mail says t —The demand for these sections will, we believe, be much greater than the present supply. Settlers will look hopefnlly at the unfinished railway, believing too readily that Governments always perform their promises. It is to be feared, on the other hand, that mere speculators will have the whip-hand of selectors, Jjy "picking the eyes" out of the lots, and then persuading the small selector that he cannot make a living pn hjs Bixty acres, but must either throw up bis bargain op buy adjoining acres at a price which leaves him under obligation. Though the splendid merino sheep which were exhibited at the late show of the Australian Sheep-breeders' Association, • Mel■bcume" (says the Argus), were greatly admired by all who visited the show, yet few jbnfc breeders of the highest class stud 'merinos could realise the money value of thg prjpcjpal prize-takers. The magnificent ghampioif r&in Puke, by Sir Hercules, a son pf Sir Thomas, fron} a Mount Fyans ewe, yyas so much fancied that Mr. W. pumrning, the owner and breeder pf the ram, has bppjj 'offered LISOO for him. This offer Mr, Cum. ming refused, as he found it, impossible to replace this valuable animal in the stud. Sir Thomas himself was sold for something like L 90.0, and was bred by Mr. James Gibson.

.It would be into-, estiug tn learn the total amount realised by his stock during the last two or three year 3. The.,statement of the Christ church., deputa-: tion who asked the"Premier for monetary aid for the late review, that the Invercargill review was aided by Government,; is ineor-' rect. The whole thing was-carried .out by public subscription, by an entertainment, '"and by the gate money, and, after the settlement of accounts, the Committee had a balance of over L2so.—Christchurch Echo. The partnership that existed between Messrs. Jonas, Hart, and Wildie, wellknown auctioneers at Timaru,. was..dissolved the other /day, and Mr. Jonas is now proprietor of-the business; having purchased the premises for the sum of L7OOO. Mr. Wildie, in conduction with the contracting firm, Messrs. Allen and Stumbles, has commenced business as auctioneers in Beswickstreet, Timaru. Mr. Hart and Mr. Lane are now proprietors of the Timaru Telegraph, the last-mentioned gentleman retaining the position of editor. At the recent Sydney Industrial Exhibition a considerable amount of interest was excited by an exhibit of what is termed skinless" oats. Messrs. George King and Co., of Cashel-street, have just received a sample of the cereal, which appears to be fully entitled to the name given it, as it is entirely free from husk. Messrs. King are not in possession of advices as to price, quantity procurable, or locality in which the sample was grown, or indeed of any particulars in regard to it. Its freedom from husk would probably render one of the processes of manufacture into meal unnecessary.— Lyttelton Times. Ouida is very angry with her London critics for their unfavorable notices of her new work called "Moths." She says that " The life of the thousands of educated men in London," M runs in grooves' down -Pall Mall or Fleet-street. They take their pleasures sadly, and are simply machines of imitation and repetition. They generally live and die knowing little of love; nothing of passion, They merely have children, go to church on Sunday, and hold, a place in church ; but conceit bandages their eyes to the excellence's of others." In short, Ouida thinks that the fogs and gloom of the English climate obfuscate the intellects of English critics. The little world on board the Tararua, during a recent trip of that steamer to, Mel' bourne from this Colony, was kept in a state of continuous excitement by a string of stirring events, as will be seen by the following account, taken from the Age " A steerage passenger who embarked at Dune'din was missed on Tuesday morning, the 14th, and .though every search was made, and the whole of the passengers mustered, no trace of him could he found. From documents disoovared in his pocket-book liis name proved to- be Michael Carr, lately a resident of Southbridge, Canterbury. He was last seen by a iellow passenger in his bunk at 10 o'clock on Monday night, but was not missed until 6 next morning. Carr had been suffering from neuralgia; it can only be surmised that the deceased went on deck; during the night and was precipitated overboard, as a hard gale was running at the time, and a heavy sea was blowing from the south, causing .the ship to roll heavily. During the time he was on board he appeared to be a steady and respectable man, but rather reticent. An event of far less sorrowful Qhayap{;er peourred on the Friday previous, when one of the steerage passengers gave birth to a pair of fine boys, all of whom are doing well. Much sympathy was felt for the poor woman, no medical man being on board, but Mr. Jones, the purser, who has had a'little ex? perience, rendered all the assistance necessary. The mother had every reason to be thankful for Mr. Jones' ability and attention. The next noticeable event was one which terminated very happily, viz., a marriagr-. A gentleman, who by accident was carried on from Port Chalmers, gained the affection of a young lady, who, with her parents, were passengers en route to England. Such was the devoted attachment of the young couple that a special license wag obtained at the Bluff, where they were married, the young lady returning with her husband to Dunedin.

The citadel of Candahar is (says the .Morning Advertiser) stronger as against the city than it is against an enemy outside. It stands on the north side of the city, and has between it and the bazaar, which occupies, in the form o.f a Qreek press, the four main streets of the city, ; an op.en' place, d'amies. The citadel is surrounded with a ditch, which, at the time of our occupation, was Ml of rubbish, and useless, but has since heen oleared out, though at the: best it is but shallow, The walls are about 20 feet thick at the base, of sun-dried earth, welltempered but friable. ■ On the inside of the wall is a banquette, the parapet of from two to six or seven feet thick, being generally crenellated, but utterly useless as against artillery.. The gates are.of old wood, as dry as tific]ev aud nearly a? ratten, hut all of them are protected by covered ways, though they are above the level both of the surrounding country and of the court-yard on the north, side, which is, indeed, so far below the level even of the fosse that it could be flooded at a pinch. Some of the covered ways are strengthened with stone, but upon the whole the gates must be pronounced •weak ijjiid not of halting wyt against a battery of guns for very long, while the narrowness of the banquette inside would not allow guns to be mounted, and it would be dangerous to make embrasures in the thick lower wall. The commissariat stores, believed according to the lftst private and public information to be very well supplied, are within'the eastern papfc of the qitaciej, on the northreast side of the city, but they are liable tq attack from the qity as well.as from the eastern side, and assuredly would hardly 'be capable of resisting a determined night assault. The real peril of the position is, first, the .danger to which the commissariat "godown" is exposed, and secondly, the extent of the, citadel, which, is. about 250.yards ideep by 800 in length. ■ The last Home News thus refers to our old friend Chang:—"Since Chang, the Chinese giant, made his appearance in the Speaker's Gallery in the House of Commons tse other night,'he hag become an abject of increased public interest. It was a good advertising move if nothing more, and the fact that he was accompanied by the dwarf, who acts as a foil to Chang's height, rather bears 'out this view. It is not generally known that Chang is a man of great intelligence in his way, and speaks several languages. The present Chinese Ambassador to this country, the Marquis of Tseng, M'hose family name differs only slightly from the giant's own, has taken great interest in him, and has frequently §h()WB him hospitality at the Chinese Embassy—hospitality 'Afhiph Chang, wlp. &;ids to his Bft oin qf height £bnfipm{ilfy long arms, has repaid in his usual way by writing |l|g najpe op the settings of the Embassy,"